Just three weeks after being indicted on 19 charges by a federal grand jury, embattled NOJO director and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and longtime business partner Ronald Markham have pleaded not guilty to one count conspiracy, four counts wire fraud, one count mail fraud, one count money laundering conspiracy, 11 counts money laundering and one count obstruction of justice.

As seen at the Advocate, the two were arraigned at the federal courthouse on Poydras Street today, January 4. OffBeat.com previously reported on Mayfield’s professional woes including the report that he spent $18,000 of library foundation money on a personal trip. Following that news, he resigned as director of NOJO, after an investigation done by WWL-TV, it was found that Irvin Mayfield moved $660,000 from the Library Foundation to help with the cost for the Jazz Market project which was $10 million. He had also moved another $197,000 in 2013.

Represented by public defender Claude Kelly, Mayfield and his lawyer are alleging “evidence that the U.S. attorneys office leaked information from the grand jury proceedings in the case to [WWL-TV reporter David] Hammer, and that prosecutors had admitted doing so,” says the Advocate report.

According to WDSU, “Mayfield told the court that his monthly income is $800 and that he doesn’t own his home. The judge declared Mayfield, the founder of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, indigent because his monthly bills exceeded his monthly income.”

If convicted, both men face up to 20 years in prison.