Fmr. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Reports to Prison To Begin 10-Year Sentence

Ray Nagin, once New Orleans' mayor, now federal inmate No. 32751-034 (The Times-Picayune)

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Monday completed a precipitous fall from grace, arriving at a federal prison in east Texas to begin a 10-year sentence for bribery and fraud committed while he was in office.

Nagin arrived at Federal Correctional Institution Texarkana only minutes before the noon deadline to report for the start of his prison term. The former mayor steered his white Ford Focus past news cameras staked out along the two-lane road across from the prison and pulled into the parking lot, footage fromKSLA-TV showed.

Nagin, accompanied by his wife, Seletha, sons Jarin and Jeremy and his teenage daughter, lingered briefly inside the car, then walked toward a guard house at the minimum security prison.