BATON ROUGE — A report released Monday by the Legislative Auditor’s Office details alleged corruption at the state’s Office of Conservation concerning a pilot program that was part of an effort to reduce the number of abandoned oil wells, centered around the actions of the OC’s Assistant Commissioner Johnny Adams, himself the subject of several WBRZ reports.
WBRZ previously reported that Adams was under investigation for malfeasance in office charges connected to his work with the state agency.
The charges alleged that Adams, the husband of Baton Rouge Metro Council member Laurie Adams, used his influence at OC to select the Louisiana Oilfield Restoration Association for the project in a way that financially benefited LORA’s owners in return for hiring his adult children as employees and later contractors through two companies that shared ownership with LORA…