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Lafayette’s spoil banks project in St. Martin Parish avoided public bid law and netted a contractor millions
The $3.8 million project, now the subject of a barbed federal lawsuit with St. Martin Parish, was top secret and may have violated public bid law with a peculiar contract arrangement.