A Baton Rouge businessman paid nearly $100,000 to identify blight in former Metro Council member LaMont Cole’s district did not log any reports about it into the city-parish’s tracking system over 4 years as instructed, according to documents obtained by The Advocate.
And e-mails show a city-parish worker raised concerns that the contractor, Terral “TJ” Jackson, at times did not sufficiently prove he did the work for which he was seeking payment.
Jackson’s role in the blight program is at the center of an indictment against him and Cole, who is now the East Baton Rouge schools superintendent. Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office accuses the pair, who are close friends, of conspiring to get Cole kickbacks through the blight contract…