BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana attorney general's office said a special grand jury has been selected to look into possible criminal activity involving a $200 million Medicaid contract awarded by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration.
Assistant Attorney General Butch Wilson told a judge that the grand jury was being empaneled in Baton Rouge as part of an ongoing investigation into the now-canceled contract for Client Network Services Inc., or CNSI.
"We are in a criminal investigation, a grand jury investigation," Wilson told Judge Tim Kelley.
The issue arose during a hearing on CNSI's public records lawsuit, seeking information tied to the contract termination.
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