{"id":873801,"date":"2025-09-18T00:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/new-orleans-mayor-and-bodyguard-lover-charged-with-fraud-and-corruption\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:13:35","slug":"new-orleans-mayor-and-bodyguard-lover-charged-with-fraud-and-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/new-orleans-mayor-and-bodyguard-lover-charged-with-fraud-and-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans mayor and bodyguard lover charged with fraud and corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of New Orleans and her bodyguard have been charged with fraud and corruption over claims they used public funds to fuel an alleged romance. Prosecutors said on Friday that LaToya Cantrell developed a \u201cpersonal, intimate relationship\u201d with Jeffrey Vappie from October 2021, while he was part of her protection team&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theghanareport.com\/new-orleans-mayor-and-bodyguard-lover-charged-with-fraud-and-corruption\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Konadu Apau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of New Orleans and her bodyguard have been charged with fraud and corruption over claims they used public funds to fuel an alleged romance. Prosecutors said on Friday that LaToya Cantrell developed a \u201cpersonal, intimate relationship\u201d with Jeffrey Vappie from October 2021, while he was part of her protection team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24761,22020,192],"tags":[6030,5948],"class_list":{"0":"post-873801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mayor","8":"category-orleans","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-mayor","11":"tag-orleans"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}