BATON ROUGE — A wide-ranging probe of City Hall affairs ensnared another public employee Wednesday when a grand jury indicted a former top administrator for former mayor Sharon Weston Broome.
The panel named Courtney Scott in nine counts and also brought eight charges against Veronica Mathis, whose company provided assistance to Broome’s “Safe Hopeful Healthy Baton Rouge” program. Scott oversaw Broome’s “Healthy City” initiative, which benefited from the use of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
“That’s a program that was under the previous administration, look several things came before the council, we approved it for what it was supposed to be for, what happened with that, you know it’s a bad thing,” East Baton Rouge Metro Councilman Aaron Moak said…