N.O. Mayor living rent free at city-owned apartment

The Metropolitan Crime Commission sent the New Orleans City Council a report Thursday requesting an investigation into Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s alleged use of a city-owned apartment in the French Quarter.

A city spokesman acknowledged the mayor has been living without paying rent in the apartment in the historic Upper Pontalba building on Jackson Square, but said she has every right to do so.

The MCC report includes photographs of Cantrell going in and out of the apartment over several months, as well as allegations from witnesses indicating she has been staying overnight regularly at the apartment, put up privacy screens on the balcony and has been receiving packages there.

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