Collis Temple Jr., a prominent Baton Rouge business owner, has been fined $25,000 by the Louisiana Board of Ethics related to the leasing of his property to a city-parish organization whose board he served on.
The Ethics Board accused Temple of suggesting an office building he owned on Florida Boulevard as the future site of a Bridge Center for Hope facility in December 2019, according to the board’s Oct. 2 opinion.
While Temple tried to resign from the board to avoid a conflict of interest, state law requires former agency heads to be away from the agency for longer than two years before entering into a contract with them…