EDITORIAL: A harder look at ICF- March 19, 2008
The Times-Picayune
EDITORIAL
The Legislature gave Louisiana's inspector general subpoena power just in time.
That authority was part of Gov. Bobby Jindal's ethics reform package approved by lawmakers in recent weeks. Now, new Inspector General Stephen Street can put the power to good use in scrutinizing the Blanco administration's questionable $156 million expansion of ICF International's already lucrative Road Home management contract.
Paul Rainwater, the new executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, asked for the inspector general's review at Gov. Jindal's urging. They had already asked state Auditor Steve Theriot to do the same.
Good for them. This deal needs to be turned inside out.
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