Oakland County supervisors knew a $450,000 service contract they approved violated state law and the county’s own conflict of interest rules, according to an independent investigation whose results were released Tuesday.

In emails and documents obtained by The Oakland Press through a freedom of information request, county employees said they were “skating around the process” when they approved the three-year contract in June with ZaydLogix, a newly created information technology staffing company that was part of a county employee’s retirement plan.

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