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The Advocate: In Fresh Black Eye for LA Film Incentives, State IG Finds Overbilling in 2 Programs About New Orleans Saints
June 30, 2016 |
In the latest black eye for Louisiana’s troubled film subsidy program, the state’s inspector general released a report Wednesday that says a production company behind two programs about the New Orleans Saints bilked taxpayers out of at least $420,000 and possibly more than $1 million.
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Times Picayune: 'Sean Payton Show' Producer Received $1 Million in Improper Tax Credits, IG Says
June 30, 2016 |
The state inspector general says a production company received more than $1 million in tax credits for expenses that were inflated or never incurred in the making of 'The Sean Payton Show' and a reality television show that never aired.
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Family Running Non-Profit Indicted for Theft of Funds Intended for the Needy
June 17, 2016 |
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Rickey Roberson, his wife Ada Craige-Roberson, and her mother Melanie Duplechain, of New Orleans, were charged in a three count indictment for conspiracy and theft of federal funds.
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Houma Today: Protect the Inspector General's Office
May 18, 2016 |
Louisiana Inspector General Stephen Street is right to question the motives of those who would deprive our state of his office.
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The Advocate: LA Inspector General Questions Lawmakers Motives to Defund His Agency
May 16, 2016 |
State Inspector General Stephen Street on Monday questioned the motives of lawmakers who attempt to shut down an agency dedicated to fighting public corruption, adding that recent attacks on his office prove the need for protected funding.
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Former LDVA Nurse Arrested on Felony Warrant
May 16, 2016 |
Cheryl Poirrier of LaPlace was arrested on a felony warrant obtained by the LA Office of State Inspector General for multiple counts of Filing False Public Records and Malfeasance in Office.
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IG Financing Restored In Next Year's Budget
May 12, 2016 |
An effort to eliminate the Louisiana Inspector General's Office failed to win House support Thursday, amid concerns about scrapping a governmental watchdog agency in a state with a history of public corruption problems.
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Houma Today: Kill Effort to End OIG
May 12, 2016 |
State lawmakers are considering doing away with the Inspector General's Office. The move could save Louisiana as much as $792,193 in annual expenses. But the damage it could do is incalculable.
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The Advocate: Fund IG's Work Against Waste
May 10, 2016 |
Is there a better case of "penny wise, pound foolish" than saving money by cutting the budge of one of the agencies that is a watchdog over public corruption?
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The Advocate: Push to Eliminate OIG Draws Criticism
May 10, 2016 |
A push to eliminate an office that investigates government waste and corruption is raising eyebrows at the State Capitol, with the leader of at least one nonpartisan government monitoring group calling on lawmakers to reconsider the future of the OIG.
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Ex-Henderson Official Sentenced for Illegal Ticket Quota Scheme
April 19, 2016 |
The town of Henderson’s former assistant police chief pleaded guilty Monday in an investigation of illegal bonuses paid to officers for handing out traffic tickets along Interstate 10, a violation of a state law against incentives for meeting ticket quotas.
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Peter and Susan Hoffman Sentenced for Roles in Tax Credit Scheme
March 09, 2016 |
US Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that Peter Hoffman and Susan Hoffman were sentenced for their roles in a scheme to defraud the State of Louisiana out of film infrastructure tax credits.
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Former DCSF Worker Arrested on OIG Warrant
February 17, 2016 |
Kimberly Lee of Calhoun, LA was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on 20 counts of Filing False Public Records and a Count of Malfeasance in Office, pursuant to an arrest warrant filed February 10 by the Office of State Inspector General.
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Nursing Director at LA War Veterans Home Arrested
October 26, 2015 |
Todd Price, the director of nursing at the Louisiana Veterans Home in Jackson, was arrested on October 22 for 24 counts of injuring public records and a count of malfeasance in office.
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