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ORDER AND DECREE <br /> IT IS ORDERED that Peter Galvan violated La. R.S. 42:1111A in his capacity as the <br /> Coroner of St. Tammany Parish by purchasing personal meals using the credit card issued by the <br /> St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office totaling$163.41;purchasing a 7.5 kilowatt Kohler marine <br /> generator for his personal use by electronic payment of$9,169.50 from a St. Tammany Parish <br /> Coroner's Office bank account; and receiving pay for 1,125 hours of annual and sick leave which <br /> he was not duly entitled to receive. <br /> IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Peter Galvan violated La. R.S. 42:1112A, La. R.S. <br /> 42:1113A(1)(a), La. R.S. 42:1111C(1)(a) and La. R.S. 42:1116A by participating in the transfer <br /> and periodic renewal of a City of Slidell Jail Medical Services contract from the St. Tammany <br /> Parish Coroner's Office to his private medical practice in which his private medical practice <br /> received $126,666.56 in compensation from the City of Slidell Jail for services provided by <br /> Mark Lombard, an employee of the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office, pursuant to the City <br /> of Slidell Jail Medical Services contract. <br /> IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Peter Galvan violated La. R.S. 42:1112B(2) by <br /> participating in the lease of office space by the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office from Jet <br /> Cash, LLC, a company owned by his business partner, Mass Prentiss Blackwell, Jr. and by <br /> submitting two invoices totaling $9,635 to the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office from Three <br /> Deuces, Inc., for construction work performed on the new St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office <br /> by Three Deuces, Inc., a company owned by his business partner,Mass Prentiss Blackwell,Jr. <br /> IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a civil penalty of$2,500, payable to the Treasurer of <br /> the State of Louisiana is hereby assessed upon Peter Galvan. <br /> Page 6 of 8 <br />