Louisiana landman-turned-whistleblower Dan Collins was featured in late June on Mike Stagg's local podcast "Where the Alligators Roam" as the program’s first guest after being picked up by KPEL News 96.5 FM.
Collins and Stagg spend the hour discussing and dissecting the lawsuit that Collins is currently entrenched in as well as his ongoing efforts to expose what he says is the environmental corruption that threatens the Atchafalaya Basin.
As The IND has previously reported, Collins has been waging a legal battle to hold accountable some current and former state officials who were involved in an elaborate scandal that involves the funneling of millions of taxpayer dollars in apparently phony environmental projects by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, which was headed by then-Sec. Scott Angelle – now running as a candidate for Louisiana's 3rd Congressional District – who decided to give an unauthorized multi-million dollar contract to local law firm Oats & Marino for the controversial project at the center of Collins’ complaint.
Collins asserts that the scheme earned a small group of lawyers, landowners and oil and gas companies across the state a small fortune while illegally dredging in the Atchafalaya Basin under the pretense of “water quality.”
In December, a jury sided with Collins in his whistleblower lawsuit against DNR and awarded him $750,000.
Collins' appearance on Where the Alligators Roam can be streamed or downloaded here.
And read more of our coverage of Collins' legal skirmishes with DNR here and here.