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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted for fraud 2 years after she was named as the other woman in a divorce filing.

Cantrell is facing federal wire fraud and conspiracy charges after being indicted this week along with former New Orleans police officer Jeffrey Vappie.

Cantrell, 53, and Vappie are both indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and other charges, according to a statement by the U.S. Justice Department.

Vappie was a member of Mayor Cantrell’s security detail. She showed favoritism to Vappie by paying him overtime for the nights he spent alone with her in a city-owned apartment in the French Quarter.

None of the other officers on her security detail went inside the apartment. Neither Cantrell or Vappie lived in the apartment.

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Mayor Cantrell was accused of having an affair with Vappie in an amended divorce filing on Jan. 4, 2023.

According to the divorce petition, Vappie was accused of having an “ongoing sexual relationship,” with a woman referred to as “Mrs. L.C.”

“The petitioner desires a judgment of divorce from the defendant because of the defendant’s continuous acts of adultery,” the officer’s estranged wife wrote in the court documents. “Vappie has been in an ongoing sexual relationship with Mrs. L.C. since approximately May 2021.”

Vappie was reassigned to desk duty following an investigation. He has since retired from the New Orleans Police Department.

He denies having an affair with the mayor, according to his attorney. But he admitted the affair to his then-wife in 2022.

Cantrell responded to the adultery allegations in a fiery text message to The Times-Picayune newspaper in 2023.

“By the time I complete my tenure as mayor, I would have slept with half of the city of New Orleans based on false accusations that come my way sometimes daily. This is only one of them,” she wrote.

The mayor added, “If I were a MAN, you would NOT be texting me about this bullsh*t.”