The Louisiana Attorney General’s office has hired a top-flight accounting firm, records show, as it continues to pursue separate investigations into alleged corruption in Baton Rouge government and malfeasance in office by former New Orleans Sheriff Susan Hutson.
The $150,000 contract with London-based Ernst and Young includes few details, but sources familiar with the investigation said the firm could help prosecutors charge more officials or add more counts in the two cases.
Obtained via records request, the contract says the firm’s investigators will help probe “funding sources, contractual arrangements, and relationships with public sector entities” for the Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office…