New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin loves to take family vacations paid for by city vendors

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, noted lover of pussy and guns and one of the most unpopular elected officials in the history of American politics, is in deep shit again. Surprise! You see, Nagin had this guy, Greg Meffert, who was the city's chief technology officer. Meffert, while employed by the Mayor's office, was also doing work for a tech firm called Netmethods. Netmethods outfitted Meffert with a corporate credit card. That's where the fun starts. From Nola.com...

Mayor Ray Nagin has said he remembers only one trip paid for by his former tech chief Greg Meffert, a 2004 family vacation to Hawaii, but records show the mayor and his family flew first-class to Jamaica in November 2005 on Meffert's vendor-provided credit card.

The cost of the airfare to Montego Bay for Nagin, his wife Seletha, their sons Jeremy and Jarin, and daughter Tianna was $6,532 -- all covered by technology contractor NetMethods.

Unlike the Hawaii trip, there's no evidence that Meffert or his family accompanied the Nagins to Jamaica.

The newly exposed credit card records are a part of a civil lawsuit in which NetMethods' competitors allege unethical favoritism by the Nagin administration.

Separately, the FBI is investigating possible influence-peddling in City Hall in an inquiry that appears to be centered on Meffert and Mark St. Pierre, who ran NetMethods as well as Imagine and Veracent, two small firms that got the bulk of the city's technology work while Meffert was chief technology officer.

When asked last week about other trips paid for by NetMethods, Nagin said he remembered taking only one trip with Meffert -- the one to Hawaii.

"There's some other charges on a credit card statement that suggest I may have taken" another trip, Nagin told WVUE-TV. "But nobody can verify that."

Ha! There's something almost admirable in Nagin's brazen "fuck you bitches now pay me" attitude toward the whole thing. He just doesn't give a shit anymore. Personally, I think he may actually be slowly going insane, but then again, he never really was all there to begin with.