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re: Latoya done got her taxes paid!
Posted on 8/25/21 at 7:53 pm to EarnYourStripes
Posted on 8/25/21 at 7:53 pm to EarnYourStripes
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I’m not paying to read Nola.com.
Here is the full article. frick Nola.com.
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell no longer owes back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a federal tax database, potentially putting to rest any revival of the tax controversy that dogged her 2018 election campaign and re-appeared during her first term.
During an interview Wednesday with members of the editorial board of the Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, Cantrell said she successfully appealed an IRS finding that she and her family owed roughly $95,000 in taxes over six years ending in 2018.
A search of federal tax information Wednesday indicated that more than $122,000 in liens had been released against Cantrell and her husband, attorney Jason Cantrell. The IRS also released another $24,010 in liens against Jason Cantrell alone.
In winning the appeal, her family saved about $60,000, she said.
"We are in a great position as it relates to the Internal Revenue Service," the mayor said. "I moved forward with (an appeal), and it worked out in our favor... I do not owe any back taxes now."
Unpaid taxes were a sore point for Cantrell during her first bid for mayor. After The Lens reported on about $30,000 of the debt the summer before the mayor's race, Cantrell said she and her husband planned to pay at least $24,000 of that debt after refinancing their home,
But their bank, First NBC, never made the payment. After it collapsed in 2017, its successor, Whitney Bank, released the money to the Cantrells, who then paid off $30,000 in September of that year, a month before the October mayoral primary.
The issue didn't stop voters from electing her by a 60-40 margin over then-opponent Desiree Charbonnet.
After her election, a report by WVUE television last year revealed an even higher unpaid tax bill, roughly $95,000 from 2013 to 2018. Cantrell then said that her family has tried to get out from under the tax debts for years, and that fellow New Orleanians have also struggled with similar issues.
According to state disclosure forms, Cantrell earned $175,970 in 2020 and her husband earned between $25,000 and $100,000 from his Poydras Street law practice.
The IRS liens on the Cantrells' Louisiana Avenue Parkway home were largely released in November of last year, except for one that was released in 2018.
Cantrell faces 13 opponents in her bid for re-election, though none are particularly well-known or financed.
Thus far in the race, the mayor has touted steps she took to slow the spread of coronavirus during the pandemic, and has stressed the need in the coming years for higher-paying jobs for city workers and improved public health outcomes.
The primary is Oct. 9; a runoff, if needed, will be Nov. 13.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 7:58 pm to brewhan davey
Thanks, added to the OP
Posted on 8/25/21 at 8:07 pm to fightin tigers
Speak of the devil, she just tried to pull some major crony shite:
LINK
Why wouldn't she keep testing the waters if no one calls her out on her bullshite?
LINK
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NEW ORLEANS — The Downtown Development District was thrown into disarray Tuesday when some members of the independent commission tried to install Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s chief of staff as interim president and CEO of the DDD after the board had already voted to give the job to someone else.
DDD Finance Director Anthony Carter was removed as interim CEO at Tuesday’s emergency meeting, just two weeks after the commission unanimously appointed him. But the attempt to rush through Cantrell’s chief of staff, John Pourciau, to fill the job failed when five DDD commissioners voted in favor, three voted against and two abstained.
The sudden move to appoint a top mayoral aide as head of an independent, state-authorized agency caught some commissioners by surprise.
Commissioner Judy Barrasso noted the DDD has been clashing with Cantrell and Pourciau over how millions of dollars from the DDD's tax millage should be used. The district is engaged in a longstanding lawsuit against the city over how it's used the tax collections for years. The DDD agreed to dedicate $2.5 million a year in downtown taxes for drainage improvement projects, but it rebuffed Cantrell's requests to turn over the money until the DDD received proof that improvements were complete.
"How do we go from an 8-0 unanimous vote to appoint Anthony Carter to having it jammed down our throat to appoint the mayor’s chief of staff, without a resume, an interview or any kind of normal hiring process?" Barrasso said. "I can only conclude it’s not for the benefit of the DDD."
Pourciau spoke briefly at the virtual meeting, touting his ability to move the business district group forward amid the challenges of the pandemic.
He vowed to resign from his job at City Hall and not pursue the permanent CEO position if approved as interim leader of the district.
The DDD, the nation’s first-ever taxing business improvement district, has been in flux and struggling to find a permanent leader after its longtime CEO Kurt Weigle resigned last year.
Weigle’s interim replacement, Richard McCall, announced he would resign effective this Friday, Aug. 27. The commission moved quickly Aug. 3 to unanimously appoint Carter, widely praised as a longtime, loyal employee, to take over as interim CEO.
Over the next week, DDD commission chairman Leo Marsh negotiated a contract with Carter. Marsh said he was on the way to the DDD offices to sign the final contract on Aug. 10 when he “began receiving calls from people at City Hall expressing their dismay at Mr. Carter’s appointment.”
Marsh said “Mr. Pourciau’s name was put into the mix” by employees at City Hall, whom he did not name. He said he decided not to finalize Carter’s contract because of the calls.
Both Carter and Pourciau attended Tuesday’s virtual commission meeting. Downtown stakeholders, including the general manager of the Hilton Riverside, spoke glowingly about Carter and urged the commission to stand by its 8-0 vote to confirm him Aug. 3. But commissioners Damon Burns and Cleveland Spears, two of the three members who were absent when Carter was appointed Aug. 3, sought to have the board reconsider Carter’s appointment.
Commissioner J. Gregory Curtis made the motion to rescind Carter’s appointment. Commissioner Chris Ross seconded the motion but disclosed that he had an unspecified relationship with Pourciau. The commission voted 6-4 to rescind the offer to Carter and “place another candidate into consideration.”
Barrasso argued that it could be illegal or a breach of contract to rescind the offer to Carter after he had already accepted the position. She tried to table Curtis’ motion but didn’t have enough votes.
Curtis then immediately called for a vote to offer the job to Pourciau, even though Barrasso and other board members said they were blindsided by the plan to hire Pourciau and wanted to at least see his resume first.
The commission’s attorney, Bill Aaron, warned it could violate the state’s open meetings law if there was not unanimous agreement to separately add Pourciau’s appointment to the agenda. Commissioners Jim Cook and Coleman Adler urged their colleagues to heed Aaron’s legal advice, but Curtis pushed ahead with the vote anyway.
But Ross, who had previously disclosed some kind of relationship with Pourciau, abstained, leaving the pro-Pourciau faction one vote shy of a majority.
The commission is scheduled to take up the interim CEO appointment anew at a meeting Friday, McCall’s last day on the job.
Why wouldn't she keep testing the waters if no one calls her out on her bullshite?
This post was edited on 8/25/21 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 8/25/21 at 8:20 pm to fightin tigers
Now if only the DA could get out from his own tax issues we’d have two of the most powerful officials in Orleans Parish in the free and clear.
But 1 out of 2 aint bad. Batting .500 gets you in the Hall of Fame
But 1 out of 2 aint bad. Batting .500 gets you in the Hall of Fame
Posted on 8/25/21 at 8:29 pm to brewhan davey
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Why wouldn't she keep testing the waters if no one calls her out on her bullshite?
People call her on it, but no one with power. Which is pretty much the same as no one calling her on it.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:07 pm to fightin tigers
Biden definitely took care of this as payback to a Democrat soldier.
She’s been making ridiculous Covid decisions and this is why.
She’s been making ridiculous Covid decisions and this is why.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:12 pm to fightin tigers
Nice timing. They’re not even trying to hide that it was paid through the Covid bailout.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:22 pm to Bourre
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Now the question is, who paid them?
Probably no one. It’s no coincidence her dispute with the IRS was resolved in her favor once a Democrat was in the White House.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:26 pm to fightin tigers
And she is about to get 4 more years of an annual salary of $175k (plus benefits such as a driver and take home car).
This post was edited on 8/25/21 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:27 pm to danilo
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and take home car
2 cars
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:29 pm to fightin tigers
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2 cars
We be eatin good, ya heard me?
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:29 pm to Sun God
Everytime I have noticed her driving around there are 2 SUVs. Guess she drives around with an entourage.
Think she may have a bodyguard as well.
Think she may have a bodyguard as well.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:34 pm to fightin tigers
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Think she may have a bodyguard as well.
Believe even councilman have a driver/security guy on call
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:45 pm to fightin tigers
quote:Every citizen of the city should have standing to sue for what is rightfully theirs.
See where there are some suits filed, looks to be over the validity. Not sure where they are at.
The descendants of the widow’s original trial lawyers get a cut for perpetuity?!?!? What a bunch of leeches!
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:57 pm to fightin tigers
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According to state disclosure forms, Cantrell earned $175,970 in 2020 and her husband earned between $25,000 and $100,000 from his Poydras Street law practice.
Omg give me a fricking break.
But we had a hard time paying our taxes. frick these people.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 10:17 pm to Bourre
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Now the question is, who paid them?
Motwani’s fact! They pay bags of cash to her every month. Just as I’m sure lots of business people do in this city
Posted on 8/25/21 at 11:53 pm to X123F45
Click link. Refresh then stop loading the page. Free way to read most pay wall pages.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 11:53 pm to fightin tigers
What’s sad is that even though she didn’t pay taxes, the ones voting for her could care less if she had been arrested or paid taxes
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