Corruption in State Govt and Edwards With Flood Relief Money

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New account so I don't get retaliated on. Plz know they are counting on us being too lazy to read this lol (tldr at bottom):

I work at an office that audits the state. We found clear, obvious evidence that the state is trying to give away 100M to his crony friends at Sullivan Group, but were suppressed from sharing the information. Here is a (not so) brief synopsis:


•The floods in Louisiana caused the state to be given 1.2B for recovery (Source: https://wgno.com/2016/12/23/a-billion-dollars-for-flood-recovery-coming-to-louisiana/)

•These funds are to be overseen by a contractor that verifies that homes were actually damaged and that construction is actually needed

•One contractor submitted a (not to get too technical) bombass conceptual plan. They also bid the lowest price (65M less than the next team, and 100M less than the 3rd place team aka Sullivan Group. More on them later)

•We suspect the selection committee that scores the proposals was rigged in Sullivan Group's favor, as the ppl who were supposed to be doing the selections were changed just days before the scoring session from highly technical people to political people (highly irregular)

•The remaining technical people scored the cheap/good company so highly in technical that the cheap/good company won despite the political people voting otherwise.

•A protest was filed that the original winner needed a builders license. All the builders on their team DO have the license, but the argument is that the tech company doing the project management should also have a builders license (??)

•Even though the protest seems absurd, the government chose Larry Bankston to rule on it. Larry Bankston is deeply connected to Sullivan Group (his son Ben is the regional manager for their local company, DRC!!) (source again: https://www.businessreport.com/article/protests-flood-recovery-contract-mounting-louisiana-cancel-rfp-start)

•Larry of course rules that yes the tech company should also have a builders license so the gov says nice lets delay things and re score everything.

•Now the government has put out a new request to score the team's proposals and we believe the mandate is in. Sullivan Group will win and walk away with their 100M dollar bounty

TL;DR : The state used Larry Bankston to rule something idiotic so they could give 100M more to their friends (and Larry Bankston's son) at Sullivan Group, instead of giving that money to homeowners with flood damage.
They'll probably find and fire me but wtv. I'm counting on you reddit, upvote and hold our politicians accountable. This 100M could plug our LSU budget shortfall
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