Jefferson Parish's reputation as a place where who you know gets you government business was reinforced this week when the inspector general's office published a 304-page audit report on the inner workings of the Finance Authority. It spotlights an agency that hired its bond counsel and its general counsel without competition, and pays them tens of thousands of dollars a year even though the former is now the latter's father-in-law and employs his daughter in his law firm.

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