As much as Joe Lombardo tries to hide, he can’t seem to escape the spotlight for his history of shady practices and lack of transparency. This week, questions are being raised about Lombardo’s potential conflicts of interest after he failed to disclose what his investments are on his financial disclosure as well as his family’s income on past statements.
Read more about Lombardo’s shifty ways below.
Nevada Current: How much do you know about candidates’ finances?
Dana Gentry
March 30, 2022
Key Points:
- Aside from his $192,000 salary as Clark County Sheriff, and his spouse’s income as a commercial real estate broker, gubernatorial hopeful Joe Lombardo and wife Donna Alderson make their money from “investments,” according to Lombardo’s financial disclosure statement.
- Nevada law requires public officials and candidates file a financial disclosure statement (FDS) each year, a form intended to lend transparency by notifying the public of potential conflicts of interest. They are not required to list the amounts derived from investments or income, with the exception of their public salary.
- Lombardo, Clark County’s top law enforcement officer, married Alderson in 2015 but failed to include her employment as a source of household income on his 2016, 2017 and 2018 statements.
- “Donna has completed over 1,400 transactions valued in excess of $2.4 billion including the sale of over 1,800 acres of land and over 48 million square feet of building transactions,” said the website of Alderson’s employer at the time, CBRE.
- In 2019, the Current reported Lombardo failed to file a financial disclosure by the January 15 deadline. Failure to file is punishable by civil penalties under NRS 281.581. Lombardo would have owed a minimum $2,000, had he been fined.
- The man Lombardo hopes to face in November, Gov. Steve Sisolak, filed a relatively detailed FDS that includes a dozen sources of income for Sisolak and his wife, Kathy, as well as real estate investments held by the first lady in Nevada and Utah.
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