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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Genovese finds that while the trial court should not have determined that the phrase "in any way interested in" in the statute was facially unconstitutionally overbroad, the phrase was unconstitutionally vague as applied to the chairman because it violated the chairman's federal and state constitutional right to due process. The Board of Ethics alleged Ethics Code violations against a Lafayette Public Trust Financing Authority chairman whose real estate development firm was hired as a project consultant for a public housing project. Under Murtes, “no member of the legislature or officer of the executive department of the state shall be in any way interested in any contract" was determined to be so broad, general and vague as to fail to define the offense by this court. The phrase at issue prohibits no specific action by the chairman. Affirmed in part.