"Individuals with business acumen"

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Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration is now pressing to have the Orleans Parish jail facility placed into federal receivership, upping the stakes in a legal battle with Sheriff Marlin Gusman over costs to reform the maligned prison operation. In a caustic legal filing this week, the city said it "does not trust the Sheriff to properly spend the funds the City provides him, let alone any additional funds that the Court may order in the future."

 The 28-page legal filing takes broad swipes at Gusman's office, accusing the sheriff of spending like a drunken sailor and failing to run a decent jail while asking the city to foot the bill for a raft of proposed fixes.

If not a receivership, Landrieu wants U.S. District Court Judge Lance Africk to appoint a committee of "individuals with business acumen, selected by the city" to oversee Gusman's finances and operations.