(From The Times-Picayune) Shoring companies caught last year in a private sting operation have turned the tables on the leading contractor in the state’s elevation grant program, catching Orleans Shoring allegedly tapping into protected state data, offering homeowners free Walmart gift cards and mailing official-sounding threats about program deadlines, all in an effort to swipe home-lifting jobs away from its competition. It’s just the latest episode in the often-seedy, always-cutthroat battle for grant-funded work in the state’s stumbling Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
On weak foundations – Home shoring firms caught in sting turn the tables on major contractor
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