Broussard may have been trying to cover for the Nursing Home owners, with a small parish, probably it was known by the major players that those helpless patients had knowingly been abandoned!He knew full well they had drown as an act of criminal actions. But then just attacking the Administration with known lies is normal for the MSM as well.
I think he heard that his associate's mother died and made up a story he could tearfully present on TV. I doubt he knew the St. Rita's tragedy would become a major national story.