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flag Three Louisiana officials indicted for allegedly rigging public bids to favor a single company’s contracts in 2021.

flag Three Louisiana officials—Gary Beard, Oscar Reed Richard, and Samuel Jason Hewitt—were indicted on conspiracy, monopolization, and malfeasance charges for allegedly rigging public infrastructure bids in 2021. flag Prosecutors say they manipulated requests for proposals to favor Hewitt’s company, Sustainability Partners LP, resulting in single-bid contracts for groundwater metering and park lighting projects, with investigators finding near-identical language between public documents and the company’s templates. flag All three deny the charges, calling them a mischaracterization of legitimate operations, and were released on $30,000 bonds. flag The case remains under investigation.

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