The Louisiana Board of Ethics dropped formal charges Friday against Gov. Jeff Landry for failing to disclose flights he took on a political donor’s private plane when he was attorney general.

In return, Landry agreed to admit publicly to other instances in which he failed to disclose free travel he accepted from business groups and political contributors. The trips he acknowledged date back to 2021 and include travel since he’s been governor. (Read the consent opinion below.)

The board also fined the governor $900, though Landry could have faced tens of thousands of dollars of penalties for failing to disclose the gifts.

Landry publicly admitted to 19 instances where he did not report free travel and accommodations he accepted as governor and attorney general. The total value of the gifted travel was $13,540, according to estimates Landry provided in documents filed this week.

The ethics board also told Landry he must report when and where he accepts free travel and lodging moving forward.

“The Governor is pleased the Ethics Board agreed to clarify who needs to file paperwork related to official travel,” Stephen Gelé, one of Landry’s private ethics attorneys, said in a statement to the Illuminator. “… The Governor respects the process. He is glad to bring an end to this matter and continue to save the taxpayers money, as he was already doing.”

The governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the matter. The ethics board, which includes Landry’s own appointees, also did not discuss the deal it had reached with the governor publicly before it voted to approve it Friday.

As attorney general, Landry accepted flights to and from Hawaii in June 2021 from Station Aviation, a company owned by retired oil and gas businessman Greg Mosing, a major political donor to Landry. Landry traveled to the Attorney General Alliance conference, where he was a featured speaker, at the Grand Wailea Maui, a luxury beachfront resort.

The ethics board used the Hawaii flights as the basis of charges they filed against Landry in 2023 and then dropped this week. It also scuttled similar charges against Stanton Aviation and Mosing.

But until Friday, it wasn’t publicly known the ethics board and Landry were in discussions about disclosing 18 other instances of complementary travel.