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The recent federal indictment of Grammy-winning New Orleans trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his longtime friend and artistic collaborator Ronald Markham reads like a mobsters? playbook for how to loot a nonprofit ? except for the part about not getting caught.

Mayfield and Markham are not charged with racketeering, but the 19 counts against them include just about everything else the feds typically throw at crooked politicians and Mafiosi ? a count of conspiracy, four counts of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of money laundering conspiracy, 11 counts of money laundering and one count of obstruction of justice.

The two men led the nonprofit New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO), which Mayfield founded in 2002, to national prominence. They also enjoyed six-figure salaries from NOJO.?