Board members sue executive director to block access to Forward Together New Orleans’ bank account amid Inspector General investigation.
NEW ORLEANS — Board members at Forward Together New Orleans, a nonprofit formed by Mayor LaToya Cantrell, are suing the executive director they fired in August, trying to stop him from seizing control of the charity’s money.
But Shaun Randolph claims he is still FTNO’s executive director and contends the board members who fired him are illegitimate. He said he’s a whistleblower who reported evidence of what he considered mismanagement and tried to “clean house.”
But WWL-TV has also obtained documents that raise new questions about Randolph’s spending of FTNO money, jobs he held simultaneously at multiple nonprofits around the country and allegations about how he ran a Florida charity that are very similar to what the FTNO board members allege in the lawsuit.
A WWL-TV investigation last monthraised questions about FTNO, which Cantrell created …