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A proposed real estate transaction that came together around the time of a recent misconduct trial in Louisville Metro Council likely would have violated local law, according to the city’s Ethics Commission.

Louisville Metro Council Member Anthony Piagentini will remain in office following an ethics trial.

Louisville Metro Council Member Anthony Piagentini is facing an ethics trial over his relationship with a local nonprofit that sought a $40 million grant from the city. It could end in his removal from office.

Democrat Markus Winkler will serve another one-year term as the Metro Council’s president. Council members also selected their party leadership, with the most significant changes in the Republican Caucus.

The ethics investigation and public hearing for Metro Council Republican Anthony Piagentini will cost taxpayers at least $193K.

Louisville will not reimburse the nonprofit AMPED for land it purchased earlier this year in the West End. The organization paid more than three times the land’s assessed value and a former chief of police profited off the sale.

Five Louisville Metro Council members voted Tuesday night to move forward with removal proceedings against Anthony Piagentini, the Republican caucus chair.

The Republican Metro Council member wants a judge to reverse the city's ethics commission ruling that he violated law.

The five member committee will investigate ethics violations against Republican Anthony Piagentini before deciding whether to push for his removal from the Metro Council.

A group of Metro Council members will band together to initiate the process of removing the chair of the council’s Republican caucus, Anthony Piagentini, in the wake of an ethics commission ruling that he broke the law.