三名路易斯安那州官员因据称在2021年操纵公众投标支持一家公司的合同而被起诉。 Three Louisiana officials indicted for allegedly rigging public bids to favor a single company’s contracts in 2021.

三名路易斯安那州官员-Gary Beard、Oscar Reed Richard和Samuel Jason Hewitt因涉嫌在2021年操纵公共基础设施投标而被控阴谋、垄断和渎职罪。 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. 检察官说,他们操纵了向休伊特公司(Sustainable Partners LP)索取建议书的请求,结果产生了地下水计量和公园照明项目的单价合同,调查人员发现公共文件和该公司的模板之间有近乎相同的语言。 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. 所有三人都否认指控,称其为对合法业务的错误定性,并以30 000美元的债券予以释放。 All three deny the charges, calling them a mischaracterization of legitimate operations, and were released on $30,000 bonds. 该案仍在调查之中。 The case remains under investigation.