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Apr. 11, 2008
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Boggs avoids fine for unintentional ethics violation

By ED VOGEL
REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU

CARSON CITY -- The state Ethics Commission on Thursday found former Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs guilty of violating a state ethics law but did not fine her for the violation.

Commissioners found Boggs did not "willfully" violate the law that requires public officials to disclose on financial statements their involvement in any company.

As a consequence, Boggs will not be fined or face any criminal sanctions.

Public officials found guilty of willful violations face potential fines of thousands of dollars.

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    • Former state Controller Kathy Augustine was fined $15,000 in 2004 for three willful violations of campaign ethics laws.

    While on the County Commission, Boggs failed to mention in two financial disclosure statements that she was an officer in Star LLC.

    She argued in a letter written in January to Ethics Commission investigators that her omission of Star was "unintentional and an oversight." She also pointed out that information about her relationship with the company was public record available from the secretary of state's office.

    Boggs and her lawyer John Mowbray attended Thursday's meeting in Las Vegas. Proceedings were broadcast in Carson City and Las Vegas.

    She did not speak during the brief proceedings.

    The agreement that Boggs would accept the unwillful violation finding had been worked out in advance by her and Ethics Commission Executive Director Patty Cafferata.

    Commissioners had a choice to accept the agreement, propose something else or conduct a full-fledged hearing on the violation.

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    Ingrid wrote on April 11, 2008 07:47 PM: Abolish the Nevada State Ethics Commission before incest impacts their children. . .


    Rodman wrote on April 11, 2008 12:52 PM: A question and a point Why does the various local and state agencies spend time and money to bring someone before the ethics commission when nothing happens other than costing more money to accomplish this nothingness. And, if the state is nearly now one billion in debt why not start the cutting of expenses by eliminating this do nothing committee and its useless state salaried employees.


    ?? wrote on April 11, 2008 12:14 PM: You gotta be F'N kidding me.......

    I don't know why I'm surprised.


    Steven Miller wrote on April 11, 2008 10:06 AM: The “Juice” on this one was two powerful unions, the Police Protective Association, and the Culinary Union … were both angered at the same time. Lazy people out there who have no clue what’s going on and don’t care to do any research on who, what or when … toss out random comments. I am no defender of Boggs McDonald … but she got her due by being ousted from office … with all the FBI investigations, she was never implicated in taking ANY bribes. Was she ethical and moral? Are any of the elected officials? She went from being Assistant City Manager, Director of UNLV’s marketing program, high paid advertising executive, congressional candidate, darling of the Republican party, member of the board of directors for Stations Casinos … and lost all that … had a nasty divorce in the middle of it all. She has paid a high price for her brief public fame and will likely never hold a major public office, these last charges were simply political pressure from those two powerful unions … to an elected DA David Roger … really they never should have been filed.


    Juice wrote on April 11, 2008 09:49 AM: Oops!
    Who do I write the check out to? Commission chair?


    David wrote on April 11, 2008 09:06 AM: What else can we expect from the idiots that run this state?


    Chris wrote on April 11, 2008 08:52 AM: I sure wish I could get away with "Oops I forgot."


    JG wrote on April 11, 2008 07:32 AM: As usual, another politician that was too stupid to understand the law and an Ethics Comission that is too weak to do anything.

    Politics as usual in Nevada


    Samuel Minden wrote on April 11, 2008 07:06 AM: "unintentional and an oversight". You have got to be kidding. She and parts of her family are so corrupt that it sure looks like she paid off someone on the ethics commission, which is also corrupt.


    forty wrote on April 11, 2008 07:00 AM: I saw this one coming