Lee Zurik Investigation: Governor Jindal wants probe of ‘Dirty Deeds’

New Orleans, La. –

Governor Bobby Jindal says the state’s Attorney General needs to look at the findings from a series of FOX 8 investigative reports entitled “Dirty Deeds”.

We caught up with the governor Friday in New Orleans after a news conference at the port.  Gov. Jindal says he has been following our six-part series into questionably obtained oil leases from the 1930’s. The former governors awarded the leases, then received a share of royalty interest in them.

“When people have elected or appointed office, their obligation is to serve us, not themselves,” the governor told FOX 8 News.   “When people abuse that office, when they use those offices to serve themselves, we have an obligation to zealously protect the state’s interests.”

More than 70 years after Governors O.K. Allen and James Noe awarded those leases, their descendants still benefit off the deal, costing taxpayers in Louisiana hundreds of millions of dollars.

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