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Advisory opinion regarding whether Ronnie Vidrine may accept a promotion with the Department of Health and Hospitals that would put him in direct supervision of his former wife, Shelly Lavergne. |
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Ronnie Vidrine is the Medicaid Area Manager in Lafayette with the Department of Health and Hospitals. Mr. Vidrine is under consideration for a position that would put him in direct supervision of his former wife, Shelly Lavergne, who is a Medicaid Analyst Supervisor.
Ronnie Vidrine and Shelly Lavergne were married in 1997 and divorced in June 2011.
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La. R.S. 42:1102(13) defines "immediate family" as the term relates to a public servant to mean his children, the spouses of his children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their spouses, his parents, his spouse, and the parents of his spouse.
La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has a substantial economic interest.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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