re: HAMMER TIME 4 TEEDY: Inspector General subpoenas Cantrell nonprofit records

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Randolph said he started raising concerns about FTNO’s finances and operations in May, when the city’s first check for the Learn and Earn program, for $505,310.40, was mailed to the St. Charles Avenue mansion of the president of Cantrell’s inaugural fund.


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For example, after Cantrell made the difficult decision to cancel Mardi Gras parades in 2021 because of the pandemic, she told her staff in an email that she wanted to issue proclamations to Mardi Gras Indian chiefs to thank them for their leadership. On the same email, Cantrell asked FTNO’s manager at the time, her former political director Trent Butler, to use FTNO funds to pay the chiefs $500 each.

“Do we have some FTNO checks we can cut for support, $500 each(?) No pressure just let me know. It can be housing expense,” Cantrell wrote.

It's a grant, so you can put it under anything," he said.

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