Panel holds 7-hour hearing on ethics charges against Mandeville mayor

A three-member administrative law panel that heard nearly seven hours of testimony Thursday in an ethics case against Mandeville Mayor Donald Villere will render a decision in writing, Administrative Judge Charlie Perrault said at the conclusion of the hearing.

The case stems from Villere's 2010 race against Trilby Lenfant, which he won by three votes.

Villere is accused of making false statements in a flyer that hit Mandeville residents' mailboxes three days before the election to fill the remainder of Mayor Eddie Price's term after Price resigned in disgrace.

The campaign pamphlet raised questions about the ethics of Lenfant, then a Mandeville councilwoman, making more than a dozen claims that Lenfant said were either false or misleading.

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