La. Mayor: State May Take Over DA Office

NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin says the state could take over the New Orleans district attorney's office as early as Monday as the agency faces a multimillion-dollar civil judgment.

A federal judge ruled this past week that district attorney office assets could be seized to pay off a $3.65 million judgment pending from a 2005 case in which dozens of white office workers successfully sued District Attorney Eddie Jordan for replacing them with black workers.

Jordan is not personally responsible for the payment.

And in an opinion released Friday, City Attorney Penya Moses-Fields concluded after reviewing state and federal laws that "the city of New Orleans has never …