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2012
NOLA
PARADE OF SHIPS
AFLOAT WITH HISTORY
Four years of events marking the bicentennial of
the War of 1812 kick off with a celebration in N.O.
Prime-time
matchups
dot Saints’
schedule
—
N.O. still in the spotlight
despite recent setbacks
—
By Nakia Hogan
Robert Isakson: Disaster-
Staff writer
recovery firm’s leader had
reputation as straight arrow
—
Agency looking into
payments to sheriff
—
By David Hammer
Staff writer
Robert Isakson was once the
fair-haired boy of the FBI in New
Orleans.
Thirty years later, the public
corruption squad he once ran is
investigating him.
Sources close to the investigation say the FBI is looking at
payments and gratuities former
Plaquemines Parish Sheriff Jiff
Hingle, his driver, and companies
affiliated with the two allegedly
received from Isakson’s Mobile,
Ala.-based disaster-recovery firm,
DRC Inc. Shortly after that, DRC
got two contracts from Hingle’s
office worth about $3 million.
See ISAKSON, A-7
Hotel party
had up to
21 women
WHO DO
THEY
PLAY?
MICHAEL DEMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
The steamboat Natchez blows its whistle Tuesday as it passes the Indonesian tall ship Dewaruci, left, and
the Ecuadorian vessel Guayas, right, where they are docked at Woldenberg Park for Navy Week NOLA.
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“It’s pretty exciting,” Johns, 25, said shortly
before the Eagle pulled into the Port of
By Paul Purpura
New Orleans, where his parents and sister
West Bank bureau
waited to greet him. “It’s defi nitely been the
uesday was a homecoming of sorts light at the end of the tunnel.”
for Alex Johns.
Under a constant downThe Luling native
pour that likely dampened
Navy Week NOLA events begin today with
shipped out 17 weeks
much of the anticipated
afternoon public tours of the vessels.
ago for officer cangreeting and silenced the
A fireworks display that was canceled
Tuesday night because of inclement
didate school in his
National Guard artillery
weather will be held tonight at 8:30.
quest to become a Coast
set up in Algiers for 21-gun
Guard helicopter pilot. But
salutes, Navy Week NOLA
he first has to pull duty aboard the Coast Guard got under way Tuesday, with the Eagle leading
a parade of ships into the port.
barque Eagle, to learn the ways of the sea.
And so it was through his temporary assignThe nation’s sea services — the Navy, Coast
ment as a student aboard the three-mast ship Guard and Marine Corps — officially kicked off four
that he returned to southeast Louisiana, as
See NAVY WEEK, A-5
part of Navy Week NOLA.
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Americans accused
of misconduct
Sailors on
Ecuador’s tall
ship Guayas
man the
yardarms
as they dock
Tuesday at
the Port of
New Orleans.
—
By David Nakamura
The Washington Post.
Investigators
believe that as many as 21 women were brought by U.S. Secret
Service and military personnel to
the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena,
Colombia, last week during a night
of carousing, a dramatic increase in
the number of women previously
disclosed by government officials.
Officials said 11 Secret Service and 10 military personnel
are suspected of misconduct
that took place before President Barack Obama arrived in
WASHINGTON —
See SECRET, A-7
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For more than three months, the Saints and
their devoted fans have known whom and where
they would play in the 2012 NFL season.
On Tuesday evening,
they finally found out
when.
The league released
it s sche du le on t he
N FL Net work , a nd
for the second consecutive year, the Saints
have four prime-time
games. This year’s slate
i ncludes a “ Monday
Night Football” appearance against the Philadelphia Eagles on Nov.
5 at the Mercedes-Benz
Superdome.
It also includes Sunday night games against
the San Diego Chargers
(Oct. 7 at the Superdome)
and the Denver Broncos (Oct. 28 at Mile High
Stadium). The Saints
meet their archrival
Atlanta Falcons in their
final prime-time game of
the season, a Thursday
SCHEDULE
night contest Nov. 29 at
IN
SPORTS
the Georgia Dome.
The Saints haves six
games against teams that advanced to the playoffs last season — two with the Falcons and one
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Jeff assessor
makes case for
a larger budget
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By Richard Rainey
East Jefferson bureau
Buy a movie ticket, throw in a
large popcorn, and it will cost you
about the same as what the Jefferson Parish assessor had in his
budget last year to spend for each
of the parish’s 176,351 properties.
A breakdown of Assessor Tom
Capella’s 2011 budget shows he
could spend about $16 to judge
the value of each parcel. By contrast, Orleans Parish Assessor
Erroll Williams had $45 per parcel, while St. Tammany Parish
Assessor Patricia Core had $32.
See CAPELLA, A-8
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Tom Capella
‘This office
runs a very,
very tight ship,’
Assessor Tom
Capella says.
He spends
about $16 to
value each parcel, compared
with $32 in St
Tammany.
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