Investigators believe a former top Baton Rouge official indicted on corruption charges Wednesday got $194,000 in kickbacks from a city-parish contract she approved and used it to pay off her mortgage and credit cards, sources with knowledge of the probe say.
According to arrest warrants obtained by The Advocate, Courtney Scott, assistant chief administrative officer for Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome during her tenure in office, received bribes from a city-parish contractor.
The contractor, Veronica Mathis, owns Build. Brand. Design., a company paid more than $738,000 in taxpayer dollars. That money flowed through a government-funded nonprofit known as the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative and it’s subsidiary Safe, Hopeful, Healthy BR…