State experts warned the Governor’s Office that technology Julie Bushell was selling might not work. But no one told lawmakers as she lobbied them to fund it.
Months before Gov. Jim Pillen recommended her for a $2.5 million no-bid consulting contract that Nebraska’s auditor later said “smacks of favoritism,” Julie Bushell was lobbying state officials for another deal.
She seemed poised to get it, despite skepticism from the state’s top environmental administrator. In emails obtained by the Flatwater Free Press, he called the technology she was selling “developing and aspiring at best.”…