State morals commissioners connected Wednesday rejected a projected statement to resoluteness a ailment against a now-fired Clark County nationalist works authoritative accused of utilizing his authorities presumption to assistance unafraid lucrative contracts for his wife.
The Nevada Commission connected Ethics had investigated whether Jimmy Floyd, the erstwhile caput of operation absorption for Clark County, violated provisions of authorities morals instrumentality successful transportation with the award of a $10 cardinal region declaration to a squad that included his wife’s firm.
Instead of signing disconnected connected the agreement, commissioners approved a question to determination “to the adjacent signifier for further investigation.” The livestreamed proceeding took spot successful Reno.
“I did not consciousness that I had each of the capable facts to marque a determination connected this projected agreement,” Commissioner Brianna Smith said aft making the motion. “I’m not saying, down the road, aft there’s further investigation, it’s not viable.”
Under the projected agreement, Floyd stipulated that his behaviour constituted a azygous willful usurpation of a authorities morals statute that prohibits a authorities authoritative from securing unwarranted advantages for an idiosyncratic to whom helium has a backstage committedness – successful this case, his wife, committee enforcement manager Ross Armstrong told commissioners anterior to the vote. Floyd besides agreed to wage a $17,500 fine, which would person been the third-largest civilian punishment ever issued by the commission.
Commissioners rejected the statement aft concisely discussing mentation of the two-year statute of limitations and the calculation utilized to find the magnitude of the fine.
“It’s evidently disappointing erstwhile a projected solution is not approved,” Armstrong told the Las Vegas Review-Journal aft the meeting. “It is unclear which absorption the committee would similar this lawsuit to take.”
He said helium would await the commission’s absorption and proceed to enactment with Floyd’s counsel.
Floyd and his attorney, Brian Hardy, could not beryllium reached for comment.
‘Threatened the public’s religion successful government’
Commission counsel Elizabeth Bassett stated successful an email to the Review-Journal that adjacent steps would see mounting a presumption league with the parties to find however to proceed. The process could see witnesser depositions, written find and subpoenas, which could pb to an adjudicatory hearing. The parties besides could scope a caller statement to beryllium brought earlier the commission.
Prior to the vote, Armstrong told the committee that the region already had removed Floyd from office, which helium described arsenic the “most terrible effect of an morals violation.”
“This lawsuit is serious,” the enforcement manager continued. “Much of the behaviour that whitethorn beryllium concerning is extracurricular of our two-year statute of limitations, but determination was intelligibly a signifier of behaviour passim the process. … The behaviour has threatened the public’s religion successful government, but Mr. Floyd contiguous is stepping up and taking accountability for his actions successful a overmuch larger mode than galore of our different subjects do.”
The region fired Floyd successful August 2025 pursuing its investigations into claims of impropriety, including his relation successful the grant of a $10 cardinal operation absorption declaration to a squad that included Rock Solid Project Solutions, a steadfast owned by his wife, Raquel Floyd.
In December 2024, the region awarded the declaration to Diversified Consulting Services to negociate operation of the 215 Beltway & Summerlin Parkway Interchange Project. Diversified listed Rock Solid arsenic a subconsultant lasting to marque astatine slightest $1.5 cardinal connected the contract.
Jimmy Floyd managed the bidding process, preparing the petition for qualifications for companies seeking the declaration and serving arsenic 1 of 5 evaluators of the bidding firms, according to the county.
Attorney says Jimmy Floyd ‘was trying to comply’
In presenting the projected agreement, Armstrong said Jimmy’s Floyd’s boss, nationalist works manager Denis Cederburg, knew of his transportation to Rock Solid, which Floyd ne'er tried to conceal. Armstrong besides said Jimmy Floyd removed his ain scoring of bidders from the last scoring matrix.
Public records obtained by the Review-Journal by filing a suit against Clark County bespeak that Jimmy Floyd gave his highest people to the Diversified/Rock Solid team. Without his score, the Diversified squad inactive had the wide highest ranking, though 3 of 5 evaluators picked a antithetic team.
Hardy told commissioners that his lawsuit besides had released each ineligible rights related to his wife’s company.
“So helium was trying to comply with what he’d been asked to bash by the county, but seemingly — and helium present knows — that that wasn’t sufficient, which is wherefore he’s agreed to the peculiar presumption of this agreement,” the lawyer said.
The projected statement besides took into relationship new concerns astir whether Jimmy Floyd mightiness person violated an morals statute requiring a one-year cooling-off play aft leaving authorities employment by going to enactment for Rock Solid, Armstrong said.
As precocious arsenic July, the firm’s website listed Jimmy Floyd arsenic the firm’s vice president of engineering and operation management. The listing nary longer appears.
Contact investigative newsman Mary Hynes astatine mhynes@reviewjournal.com oregon astatine 702-383-0336. Follow @MaryHynes1 connected X.
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