Ex-Airport Director Pleads Guilty In Katrina Case

The former director of aviation at New Orleans' Louis Armstrong International Airport has pleaded guilty in a Hurricane Katrina insurance fraud case.

Sean Hunter pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to obstruction of justice and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 11.

Hunter and his wife, Shauna Crowden Hunter, were charged with trying to profit from a bogus insurance claim after the 2005 storm.

Prosecutors said Shauna Hunter contacted her insurance company less than a month after the August 2005 hurricane and falsely claimed her new BMW had been destroyed in the storm.

Shauna Hunter is expected to plead guilty to in a related case in Houston later this month.