A now-fired Clark County manager was “heavily involved” successful nationalist works projects that included his wife’s firm, which apt resulted successful the steadfast receiving preferential treatment, according to a summary of an aboriginal probe into conflict-of-interest allegations.
The county’s probe recovered that the grounds supports that Jimmy Floyd, erstwhile caput of the operation absorption division, was “heavily progressive successful the selection, task management, and invoice processing of projects” that included Rock Solid Project Solutions arsenic a subconsultant/subcontractor, the summary states.
Floyd’s wife, Raquel, owns the firm, wherever her hubby is present a vice president, according to Rock Solid’s website. The region fired him successful August.
“The grounds supports that it is apt that Rock Solid Solutions did person immoderate level of preferential treatment, whether straight oregon indirectly, owed to Jimmy Floyd’s presumption with Clark County,” according to the redacted “draft” papers dated May 6, 2025.
Raquel Floyd deferred remark to her husband, who declined to remark for this story.
The region released the probe summary past week pursuing a May 22 District Court ruling that it had violated the Nevada Public Records Act by withholding records astir Jimmy Floyd’s firing. In March, the Las Vegas Review-Journal sued the county for records tied to its probe of Jimmy Floyd and the process that allowed his woman to person lucrative contracts.
However, the region continues to withhold documents from aboriginal successful its probe process, according to a caller Review-Journal motion. The substance is scheduled to beryllium heard during a tribunal proceeding Wednesday.
Anonymous ailment triggers inquiries
The county’s probe stemmed from an anonymous ailment astir conflicts of involvement sent to region officials and aboriginal obtained by the Review-Journal, which began publishing stories connected its ain findings successful May of past year.
Among different issues, the ailment alleged irregularities successful the county’s grant successful December 2024 of a $10 cardinal operation absorption declaration to a squad that included Rock Solid. The declaration was to negociate the operation of the 215 Beltway & Summerlin Parkway Interchange Project.
Jimmy Floyd oversaw the grant process and served arsenic an evaluator of the declaration proposals, the region confirmed past year.
The Review-Journal 2 weeks agone received unredacted documents showing that of the 5 evaluators, Floyd was 1 of 2 who gave the apical ranking to Diversified Consulting Services, a steadfast whose connection specifically stated that it would beryllium utilizing Rock Solid arsenic a large subconsultant/subcontractor. The 3 others gave their apical ranking to a competing firm, WSP. However, Diversified had the highest fig of wide points and received the contract.
Sources acquainted with the bid process said that its requirements were skewed to springiness the Diversified/Rock Solid squad an advantage. And successful a interruption from protocol, the region did not behaviour interviews with the highest-scoring firms earlier awarding the declaration to Diversified, the sources said. Rock Solid stands to marque astatine slightest $1.5 cardinal connected the contract.
The investigative summary states that Jimmy Floyd said helium took the declaration proposals to Denis Cederburg, his brag and the manager of nationalist works, to inquire if helium needed to recuse himself, and that Cederburg stated that helium did not. The study states, “Denis did not corroborate this but shared that Jimmy was removed from the task aft the complaints were received.”
For respective years, Rock Solid had been a scheduling subcontractor connected region projects and arsenic of aboriginal past year, had been paid $422,200 connected region projects, according to records that were obtained past twelvemonth by the Review-Journal done a nationalist records request.
According to the probe summary, “Jimmy Floyd did not disclose each incidental of Jimmy’s Clark County enactment interactions with Rock Solid Project Solutions to supervisor Denis Cederburg, peculiarly erstwhile Rock Solid Solutions expanded their services to see operation absorption and inspection services.”
The region approved Rock Solid for a abbreviated list of companies eligible to beryllium the superior operation absorption consultant/contractor connected smaller nationalist works projects.
As antecedently reported by the Review-Journal, Jimmy Floyd connected 2 occasions filed an yearly disclosure study with the region that stated his transportation to Rock Solid.
In an interrogation with region investigators, Jimmy Floyd said his woman had received support from Cederburg to enactment connected region projects, according to redacted audio of the interview. He besides said helium had requested guidance from Cederburg and a typical of the territory attorney’s bureau astir a imaginable struggle of interest, and they had not seen an issue. He acknowledged that helium could not find documentation of the meeting.
Cederburg could not beryllium reached for remark Tuesday.
Information that whitethorn beryllium related to this gathering has been redacted from the probe summary.
In an email to region officials a twelvemonth ago, region Chief Financial Officer Jessica Colvin said the section caput — Cederburg — was alert of Jimmy Floyd’s transportation to Rock Solid, but that a unit directive prohibits employees from engaging successful activities that correspond a struggle of interest.
She said that aft reviewing respective emails she believed that Jimmy Floyd had regularly violated the directive’s overarching intent of prohibiting employees from utilizing their region positions “to unafraid oregon assistance privileges, exemptions, advantages, contracts, oregon preferential attraction for themselves oregon others.”
The emails amusement “recurring instances of Rock Solid’s entree to Jimmy successful his position” arsenic a nationalist works manager, Colvin states successful the email.
In a redacted email dated May 15, 2025, 1 of the region investigators, worker and labour relations manager Ashley Mazzone, asked Colvin if she should besides draught a summary of concerns related to Cederburg, a decades-long region worker who remains successful his position.
Such a papers has not been provided by the region to the Review-Journal. It’s unclear whether specified a papers exists.
Motion seeks records release
On Monday, District Judge Bita Yeager ordered that a caller Review-Journal question beryllium heard Wednesday. The question asks the tribunal to enforce the merchandise of probe records, oregon arsenic an alternative, bid the region to amusement origin wherefore it should not beryllium held successful contempt for failing to merchandise records.
After Yeager’s May 22 ruling regarding the merchandise of records, the region has provided prime documents to the quality organization. However, Deputy District Attorney Scott Davis asserted past week that the region had conducted not 1 but 2 investigations into the matter, and was required to supply documents related to the archetypal probe only, according to the Review-Journal’s motion.
Davis advised “that it was the County’s presumption that the LVRJ’s nationalist records requests did not use to some investigations of Floyd and, therefore, the County had not and would not nutrient records related to some Investigations,” according to the motion.
Colleen McCarty, an lawyer for the Review-Journal, advised Davis that the quality enactment disagreed “because the requests litigated successful this substance were sufficiently wide to encompass records relating to some Floyd investigations and due to the fact that the Court had already ordered accumulation of the responsive investigative records and email Communications,” according to the motion.
Additionally, she asserted “based connected the myriad communications betwixt LVRJ and the County implicit galore months, that determination could beryllium nary uncertainty LVRJ requested records relating to the entirety of the County’s reappraisal of the matters involving Floyd and the grant of operation contracts.”
County spokesperson Jennifer Cooper wrote successful an email to the Review-Journal connected Monday, “The County disputes the accuracy of the latest RJ filing, and our afloat arguments volition beryllium presented earlier the Court connected Wednesday.”
Contact investigative newsman Mary Hynes astatine mhynes@reviewjournal.com oregon astatine 702-383-0336. Follow @MaryHynes1 connected X.
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