Conflict of Interest for New Orleans Fdn. Board

摘要

On May 5, an investigative report by correspondent David Hammer for local New Orleans station WWL-TV revealed that between 2012 and 2013, Irvin Mayfield and Ronald Markham, who then served on the board of the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) Foundation as chair and president, re-spectively, gave the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) at least $863,000 in funding originally donated to the NOPL Foundation. At that time, both Mayfield and Markham were also drawing an-nual salaries of $100,000 apiece from the nonprofit NOJO, Mayfield as its founder and artistic director and Markham as president and CEO. The money was redirected to NOJO as an investment in the Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market, a reno-vated retail building that opened in April 2015. The funds, Markham told Hammer, were earmarked for a satellite library installation within the Jazz Market.