BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Attorney General’s office has hired a London-based accounting firm as it continues its investigation into alleged corruption among Baton Rouge government officials, including bribery and theft charges against councilman Cleve Dunn, NOLA.com reported Wednesday.
The AG’s office has entered into a $150,000 contract with Ernst and Young, the paper notes. The firm will help probe funding sources, contracts and relationships within the public sector, the paper adds.
The contract went into effect at the end of March and remains active through the end of the year, with the primary focus of Ernst and Young’s work with the AG’s office being on public officials who have not yet been indicted in the corruption investigation, NOLA.com reports…