Records requested by WWL-TV are incomplete but show at least $60,000 in travel-related expenses so far this year.
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor LaToya Cantrell has spent well more than $60,000 on travel in 2022, even after canceling a planned trip to Singapore amid criticism of her appetite for faraway destinations and the growing manpower crisis at the NOPD.
The Singapore trip would have been the major’s third foreign excursion in five weeks, but even though she pulled the plug on that excursion, city records obtained by WWL-TV show at least six out-of-state trips by the mayor in 2022. Since the station first reported on the travel records, Cantrell has been engulfed in a series of new controversies, but she still found time recently to travel to Washington, DC for a meeting on Monday with a city attorney to lobby for an end to the decade- long NOPD consent decree.
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