Fox 8: Mayor's staff made $230,000 in overtime and emergency pay during Isaac
 

In an investigation so thorough, timely and pitch-perfect in execution that I have to call it stunning, Fox 8 digs through city payroll records and finds that Mayor Landrieu's top staff members ? some of the highest-paid people in city government to begin with ? took home about 5 annual cop salaries worth of emergency and overtime pay during the Hurricane Isaac emergency declaration. The city's six deputies mayors alone were paid to the tune of about one 4-H program.? [ Read more ]

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