Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry played the “fake news” card outside the U.S. Supreme Court this week, in a terse dismissal of questions over his recent private business venture with a since-convicted visa fraudster to game the system for importing hundreds of Mexican laborers to work in the state.

“We’ve made our statements, and it’s fake news as far as I’m concerned,” Landry said of an investigation by The Times-Picayune and The Advocate that was published Feb. 14.

Landry’s first remarks about the report to media came Wednesday, when a reporter caught up with him after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over Louisiana’s local admitting-privileges requirement for doctors who perform abortions.

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Landry then quickly ducked off to begin another conversation amid a bustle outside the courthouse.

It was a challenge from Landry’s office that landed the abortion case at the high court, drawing a huge crowd that many in Landry’s position might exploit to raise their political profile.

Landry, though, skipped a news conference about the case with other states’ attorneys general on Tuesday. Though it was Solicitor General Liz Murrill who defended the state's requirement for doctors before the high court, a Landry spokeswoman said the attorney general was too busy prepping to appear before the cameras.

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The newspaper’s story revealed that two Jeff Landry-owned companies submitted dubious paperwork to federal agencies before securing the rights to import 195 Mexican welders and pipefitters for major industrial projects in the South, in partnership with a since-convicted Houston labor broker, Marco Pesquera.

The newspaper published the results of its investigation on Feb. 14. Landry, who declined to answer dozens of questions related to those documents before the story was published, issued a 14-point response afterward in which he denied wrongdoing.

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Landry also posted a 10-minute video on social media that featured his brother, Benjamin Landry, defending him and alleging a nefarious political motive behind the story.

Landry’s camp has repeatedly refused to say how many American workers were hired under the contracts to provide qualified welders and pipefitters mostly for jobs at the massive Cameron LNG liquefied natural gas facility being built in Hackberry, south of Lake Charles.

Pesquera said no Americans were hired for the work, though at least 113 of them applied.

A Landry spokesman took to the radio shortly after the story published to deride it as “misleading” and to highlight other aspects of Landry’s business record. He dodged questions about whether Landry hired any Americans on the project, however. Neither Jeff Landry, nor anyone tied to his companies, have challenged any facts in the story.