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Ethics Board Docket No. 2017-1219 Page 4 of 11 La. R.S. 42:1153 provides with respect to penalties: B. Upon a determination that any public employee or other person has violated any provision of any law within the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics except violations of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act which shall be governed by Chapter 11 of Title 18 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, the Ethics Adjudicatory Board may remove, suspend, or order a reduction in pay, or demotion of the public employee or other person, or impose a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or both. 3. La. R.S. 42:1155 provides with respect to penalties: A. If an investigation pursuant to this Part reveals that any public servant or other person has violated any law within the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics to his economic advantage, and after an adjudicatory hearing on the matter, the Ethics Adjudicatory Board may order the payment of penalties. Recovery may include, in addition to an amount equal to such economic advantage, penalties not to exceed one half of the amount of the economic advantage... V. OPINION: It is the opinion of the BOE that Yvette Robinson, while serving as the Assistant to the Vice President of Finance and Administration and as Campus Card Manager for Grambling State University, violated Section 1111 A(l)(a) of the Code of Governmental Ethics. Section IIIIA(1)(a) prohibits a public servant from receiving anything of economic value, other than compensation and benefits from the governmental entity to which he is duly entitled, for the performance of the duties and responsibilities of his office or position. Section 1112A of the Code of Governmental Ethics prohibits a public servant from participating in a transaction in which he has a personal substantial economic interest of which he may be reasonably expected to know involving the governmental entity. Yvette Robinson received a thing of economic value in the form of money to which she was not entitled to receive for the performance of her duties and responsibilities as the Assistant to the Vice President of Finance and Administration and as a Campus Card Manager, when she participated in improperly transmitting $12,200 from Grambling State University to her Tiger 1 G-Flex Account.