Former Lafayette mayor responds to report of pending state ‘spoil bank’ audit

An investigative report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor into Lafayette Consolidated Government’s clandestine removal in 2022 of a Vermilion River spoil bank in St. Martin Parish is expected to be released soon, an LCG spokesperson said Thursday.

The Current online news organization reported Friday that it had obtained a draft of the LLA report and that the report doesn’t reveal much that hasn’t already been reported in regular annual LCG audits.

The spoil bank project, The Current wrote, “violated state law, federal law, a St. Martin Parish ordinance and Lafayette’s Home Rule Charter.”…

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