BATON ROUGE — Businessman Collis Temple Jr., the subject of several 2 On Your Side reports from Brittany Weiss, has been ordered to pay a $25,000 penalty by the Louisiana Board of Ethics.
According to an Oct. 2 opinion from the ethics board, Temple allegedly used his role as a board member of the Bridge Center for Hope to help award a contract to a property he also owned, which the Louisiana Board of Ethics found to be a conflict of interest and a violation of state ethics laws.
The opinion says that in March 2019 the Bridge Center for Hope entered a cooperative endeavor agreement with the East Baton Rouge Parish government to “assign the use of public funds to the Bridge Center to manage the operation of a crisis stabilization program.” Less than a month later, Temple was named to the board of the Bridge Center to serve a two-year term…