The FBI and other federal authorities are investigating a Baton Rouge housing project that cost more than $450,000 to rehab three small homes, issuing a grand jury subpoena in July and meeting with top officials in Mayor-President Sid Edwards' office, records show.

It's the second known federal probe into government-funded housing projects in East Baton Rouge Parish since last May.

Emails obtained via a public records request show meeting plans and communication between Baton Rouge's Office of Community Development Director Kelly LeDuff and FBI agents, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development's Inspector General in March.

In multiple messages, LeDuff and investigators discussed developer Jason Hughes' Central Road housing development project. Beginning i

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