Clark County suspended nationalist works manager Jimmy Floyd past May aft determining that his wife’s steadfast had apt received preferential attraction arsenic a effect of his position. But it was emails betwixt Floyd and his woman that sealed his firing successful August, according to recently released records.
After a archetypal probe by the region showed that Floyd had been “highly involved” successful managing region projects that included his wife’s firm, a 2nd probe into emails revealed that helium had done favors for the firm, according to the records, which the Las Vegas Review-Journal sued to obtain.
The records besides revealed a 3rd probe into what Jimmy Floyd’s boss, nationalist works manager Denis Cederburg, knew astir immoderate struggle of interest.
The region concluded an probe past outpouring into claims of a struggle of involvement betwixt Floyd, caput of operation absorption since November 2018, and the steadfast of his wife, Raquel Floyd, who owns Rock Solid Project Solutions. Her steadfast was hired by operation absorption consultants arsenic a subconsultant oregon subcontractor connected lucrative contracts with the nationalist works department.
This initial region probe determined that Jimmy Floyd was “heavily progressive successful the selection, task management, and invoice processing of projects that included Rock Solid Solutions arsenic a subcontractor,” according to what the region called a “draft” investigative summary that recommended his demotion.
A 2nd probe progressive the reappraisal of 150 emails betwixt the spouses, according to recently released records. The region recovered that “Jimmy was providing assistance and ‘favors’ that benefitted Rock Solid Solutions, portion utilizing his Clark County email address,” according to a July probe summary “draft” that recommended his firing.
The Floyds did not respond to requests for remark for this story.
Jimmy Floyd told region investigators that successful his nonrecreational capableness helium would assistance anyone who asked. He besides emphasized that Cederburg had known of his transportation to Rock Solid, records show.
Brian Boschee, an lawyer for Jimmy Floyd, stated successful a missive to Cederburg delivered via email and certified message successful July: “As the Director of Public Works, you were alert of immoderate and each relationships Mr. Floyd had with Rock Solid and allowed him to proceed successful his relation without issue.” He said his lawsuit denied the allegations against him.
In an email to quality resources manager Ashley Mazzone successful June 2025, Cederburg stated, “Jimmy did notify maine of the struggle with his spouse’s institution but not the grade of the conflict.”
Findings from the county’s probe showed “a deficiency of oversight from Denis Cederburg which allowed the identified struggle of involvement to turn and person a further damaging interaction connected the Public Works department,” according to an investigative summary draft.
In a Tuesday email to the Review-Journal, Cederburg wrote, “I entrusted Jimmy with the absorption of the part and relied upon his experience, knowledge, judgment, and recommendations. In hindsight, I should person exercised much oversight.”
In the past week, region officials turned implicit hundreds of pages of further records to the Review-Journal aft District Judge Bita Yeager ordered them to bash so. The quality organization, which past twelvemonth conducted its ain probe into conflict-of-interest claims, sued successful March to get records related to the findings of the county’s investigations.
County attorneys asserted that Yeager’s archetypal bid successful May to merchandise records pertained lone to the county’s archetypal investigation. The justice disagreed and connected June 3 ordered the merchandise of “any and all” records pertaining to its investigations.
Anonymous ailment triggers probes
Triggering these events was an anonymous ailment to Clark County officials successful December 2024 that claimed Jimmy Floyd had fixed preferential attraction to Rock Solid, portion of a squad that had conscionable been awarded a $10 cardinal region nationalist works declaration to negociate operation of the 215 Beltway/Summerlin Parkway Interchange Project.
The Review-Journal, which aboriginal obtained the anonymous complaint, published stories successful May of past twelvemonth astir however Jimmy Floyd had overseen the grant of the 215/Summerlin Parkway contract, served arsenic an evaluator of declaration proposals and continued to negociate the project. Later that month, the region suspended Floyd.
This month, aft obtaining the unredacted connection evaluations from the county, the quality enactment further reported that Floyd had ranked highest the institution whose connection included Rock Solid arsenic a subconsultant. That company, Diversified Consulting Services, was awarded the contract, for which Rock Solid was expected to beryllium paid astatine slightest $1.5 million, according to the proposal.
Records amusement that for its archetypal investigation, which resulted successful Jimmy Floyd being placed connected permission successful precocious May, region officials interviewed astatine slightest 11 different nationalist works employees, immoderate of whom expressed interest implicit his transportation to Rock Solid.
The region refused for a twelvemonth to supply the findings of its investigations, claiming they were confidential unit information.
‘Pull a favor’
A summary of the 2nd probe states that successful a January 2023 email, Raquel Floyd copied her hubby connected an email successful which she wrote, “Jimmy said helium would effort to propulsion a favour for america astatine NVE,” a notation to NV Energy. The petition was not related to immoderate concern oregon projects with nationalist works, according to the summary.
In May 2021, Raquel Floyd forwarded an email successful which a typical of a operation absorption institution asked if Jimmy could assistance with a traffic-control issue, according to the summary. Jimmy Floyd told region investigators that “if anyone asks him for help, helium gives them help,” the summary states.
“There were galore emails akin to this one, successful which Jimmy appears to beryllium consulting oregon assisting successful projects” unrelated to Clark County nationalist works, the summary states.
In different email concatenation with his woman successful October 2018, Jimmy Floyd disparaged an associate, whom helium aboriginal told a region researcher was trying to forestall his promotion due to the fact that of his transportation to Rock Solid.
In an email to his woman successful May 2024, helium elaborate issues helium was having with a colleague. He told investigators helium was seeking her advice.
“Findings from this probe further affirm that Jimmy has been utilizing his authoritative County presumption to assistance preferential attraction for his spouse and her company, Rock Solid Project Solutions,” the summary states. “Jimmy’s actions of utilizing his County email and resources for idiosyncratic pursuits, arsenic good arsenic sharing accusation astir interior PW (public works) issues with a PW vendor, are a usurpation of Clark County policies.”
Citing “egregious violations of Clark County policies,” the summary recommends that Jimmy Floyd beryllium fired.
Kristol Bradley Ginapp, an lawyer for Jimmy Floyd, argued that the emails did not show preferential attraction for Rock Solid, according to a missive to Jimmy Floyd successful August from Deputy County Manager Lisa Kremer that recapped a disciplinary hearing.
“Using his County email for idiosyncratic pursuits was inadvertent and emailing his woman regarding interpersonal issues helium was seeking consult connected don’t emergence to a terminable discourtesy and would similar the termination to beryllium rescinded,” the lawyer asserted.
‘He’s been alert the full time’
When Rock Solid was lined up to beryllium a large subconsultant for Diversified Consulting Services, a institution bidding for the operation absorption declaration for the interchange project, Jimmy Floyd said helium asked Cederburg if helium needed to recuse himself arsenic an evaluator of the bid proposals. Cederburg said no, Floyd told investigators, according to a summary of the archetypal probe and audio of the interview.
However, the summary study states, “Denis did not corroborate this but shared that Jimmy was removed from the task aft the complaints were received.”
One investigator, Mazzone, told Jimmy Floyd that region officials were trying to find however alert Cederburg was “of each this” and asked if helium thought his brag had enactment him successful the presumption of being the taxable of an investigation.
Jimmy Floyd responded, “He’s been alert the full time, and that’s a frustrating point. … I don’t cognize that Denis is intentionally putting maine successful this position. I would anticipation not,” according to redacted audio of the interview.
According to an 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.”
Jimmy Floyd said helium had been advised by Cederburg and a lawman territory lawyer that helium had nary struggle with Rock Solid, but helium besides acknowledged that helium could supply nary documentation of gathering with them, according to redacted audio of his interrogation with Mazzone.
The summary of the probe into Cederburg provides further details: “While Denis Cederburg said helium did not callback this meeting, the accusation provided passim the probe supports that immoderate benignant of gathering similar this happened. It was besides confirmed that Denis had different meetings with Raquel Floyd and was alert that she was Jimmy’s woman and the proprietor of Rock Solid Solutions.”
In a recently released email to Raquel Floyd successful February 2021, Cederburg wrote aft their meeting, “I americium good with your steadfast moving with consulting firms nether declaration with the County for projects administered by Public Works.”
Cederburg, a region worker since 1980, was not disciplined arsenic a effect of the investigations, region spokesperson Jennifer Cooper confirmed Monday. She noted that the region identified that “potential conflicts of involvement could effect from subcontractor relationships” and had taken steps to code these.
In an email to region officials past June, region Chief Financial Officer Jessica Colvin said that portion Cederburg was alert of Jimmy Floyd’s transportation to Rock Solid, a unit directive prohibits employees from engaging successful activities that correspond a struggle of interest. In different words, Cederburg’s consciousness did not inoculate his employee.
In her missive to Jimmy Floyd, Kremer, the lawman region manager, wrote that she recovered conscionable origin for termination. She wrote that the county’s ethical standards, contained successful the unit directive, necessitate that “employees volition not effort to usage their authoritative County positions to unafraid oregon assistance privileges, exemptions. advantages, contracts, oregon preferential attraction for themselves oregon others.”
Contact investigative newsman Mary Hynes astatine mhynes@reviewjournal.com oregon astatine 702-383-0336. Follow @MaryHynes1 connected X.
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