BATON ROUGE – A former top administrator for former mayor Sharon Weston Broome was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Thursday.
Courtney Scott was one of two people named by the Attorney General’s Office in a corruption probe; Veronica Mathis, a local businesswoman, was booked on charges including conspiracy, theft, bribery, money laundering and public contract fraud, with Scott facing those charges alongside malfeasance in office.
Scott worked for Broome until July 2024, when she was accused of beating a man outside a Baton Rouge night club. She resigned, and a video of the incident popped up after a lawsuit was filed…