Former Mandeville mayor Eddie Price has been subpoenaed and will have to appear before the state ethics board again next month.

The board has charged that Price did not file a campaign finance disclosure in conjunction with the Feb.9, 2008 election.

By law he was required to file the report 30 days prior to the election. Price’s case was on the agenda for the Board of Ethics meeting on Oct.28, but was not heard at that meeting because state police were unable to serve Price with a subpoena to appear in time.

Alesia Ardoin, a staff attorney for the Ethic’s Board verified that he has since been served a subpoena to appear before the board at its next meeting on Nov. 20.

She said if he fails to provide the board with evidence at that meeting justifying why he did not file the report, he will be fined $1,000 and given 30 days to produce the report. If he misses that deadline he will be fined an additional $1,000.

Ardoin said Price has already been fined $2,000 by the Ethic’s Board for not filing subsequent reports. He was fined $1,000 when he failed to show at an Aug. 26 hearing on those reports. At that hearing he was given 30 days to produce those reports and incurred the additional $1,000 fine when he failed to meet that deadline.

This is the just the latest in a long list of legal troubles for the former mayor.

Earlier this month he pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges, admitting to have accepted lavish gifts and trips from two companies that do business with the city, using campaign funds and city money for his personal use and failing to file a 2007 tax return. He faces up to 25 years in prison on these charges.

He has also been indicted on state perjury charges and is scheduled to go to trial on that case next month as well.

State prosecutors claim that Price lied under oath as he was testifying in the assault trial of a friend of his. Price allegedly told the jury that he did not use his influence to try and change the charge against his friend from a felony assault to a misdemeanor. He has publicly maintained his innocence in this case and is awaiting trial.

A week before pleading guilty to the mail fraud and tax evasion charges, Price stepped down from his position of mayor of Mandeville saying his legal woes was distracting from the everyday business of running the city.