BATON ROUGE — A man accused of defrauding an East Baton Rouge Parish health program has been arrested by Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents as part of an ongoing state probe into corruption within the city-parish government.
According to the attorney general’s office, Roderick Shannon allegedly defrauded the Safe, Hopeful, Healthy BR, a sub-unit of Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative.
The AG’s office said that, around July 2022, Shannon submitted an invoice and program reports purporting that he had sponsored local events involving MADD Marvin. The AG’s office added that Shannon paid approximately $3,041.66 for those alleged services…