State health chief Greenstein is a “no show”

State health chief Bruce Greenstein skipped Tuesday’s legislative hearing on his agency’s proposed $8.87 billion budget, a few days after a report of a federal probe into the award of a Medicaid claims processing contract to one of his former employers.

Meanwhile, state Inspector General Stephen Street, whom the Jindal administration brought into probe, told the panel that he has asked those who had anything to do with the contract dealings to “refrain from commenting publicly on the specific matters under investigation.”

Federal rules require confidentiality, Street said.

The Jindal administration canceled the $185 million-plus contract with Client Network Services Inc. after the federal grand jury probe became public last week.

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[font color=green]Cronyism is alive and well in Louisiana.[/font]