Commission grants summary judgment on two ethics counts against Lander County official Ramos; willful/non-willful to be briefed

The Nevada Commission on Ethics granted summary judgment on two allegations against Cardenolo Ramos, a former Lander County public works director, finding he violated disclosure and contract-participation provisions of the Nevada ethics statutes. The commission left other allegations for later adjudication and ordered supplemental briefing on whether the conduct was willful.

Associate Counsel Bassett presented the executive director's motion for summary judgment, saying the office sought summary disposition on two counts: failure to disclose a conflict under NRS 281A.420(1) and participating as an agent of government in contract negotiations under NRS 281A.400(3). Bassett described a factual record in which Ramos proposed that the county subcontract material testing rather than have engineering firms perform testing, and identified a local…