Christopher Wolff News Today

The ordinances require additional details on employee financial disclosures, publication of every city contract and penalties for contractors who refuse cooperation with the Office of Inspector General.

The investigation centers around the Mayor's Office of Utilities and its former director Jonathon Rhodes' project "Smart City."

The City Council will consider a series of reforms aimed at preventing conflicts of interest and contracting fraud before they occur.

An investigation into the alleged improper actions of New Orleans city employees, regarding the requested proposal for Advanced Broadband and Smart City Systems, has concluded.

The investigation centers around the Mayor's Office of Utilities and its former director Jonathon Rhodes' project "Smart City."

Employees Jonathan Rhodes and Christopher Wolff should have disclosed their conflicts, the OIG said while stopping short of declaring they broke any laws.

Notes on New Orleans politics

Investigators hired by the New Orleans City Council to look into the now-abandoned "smart cities" project found evidence of potential contract-rigging, ethics violations and perjury by city officials.

People are known by the company they keep.

The ancient Greek writer Aesop once noted that people are known by the company they keep. More than 2,500 years later, that remains a useful metric for assessing the character