Prosecutors allege that in October 2021, Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Jeffrey Vappie, her bodyguard, developed a "personal, intimate relationship."

Officials allege she defrauded the city while trying to keep hidden her relationship with a police officer. She's charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and obstruction.

A federal grand jury indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, on Friday after a multiyear corruption investigation into the Louisiana Democrat. Cantrell, now the first sitting mayor to be indicted in the city’s history,