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Recap: How 2022 left Guillory’s drainage program in a deep hole
Looking back, we uncovered a program plagued with problems: conflicts of interest, disregard for public accountability processes and a lack of proven need or efficacy.
Looking back, we uncovered a program plagued with problems: conflicts of interest, disregard for public accountability processes and a lack of proven need or efficacy.
The City Council’s decision to investigate Guillory isn’t about politics. It’s about holding him accountable.
In yet another unusual twist in the Guillory administration’s drainage program, the state is holding up funding because Rigid Constructors bought property to keep digging detention ponds after a district judge forced it to move locations.
Local media turned up the heat on the mayor-president in August, reporting that may be turning into big-time investigations.
The firm’s creation, timed as LCG fuels a local construction boom, creates a minefield of potential conflicts.
There has been no public accounting of how much three drainage lawsuits could ultimately cost. The cases could blow multimillion-dollar holes in LCG’s budget.
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