Feds abruptly end big New Orleans public corruption investigation “based on evidentiary concerns and in the interests of justice,” the Times-Picayune reports. This was the sweeping corruption probe during which it was discovered that federal prosecutors were making anonymous online comments about their targets and judges.

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