'Corruption and cover up': State bar begins hearing to disbar Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones

'Corruption and cover up': State bar begins hearing to disbar Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - Justin Jones wiped clean his phone of all text messages related to a lawsuit against Clark County in April 2019 for two specific, dishonest reasons: corruption and cover-up, the state's bar counsel told a hearing panel Monday. In his own defense, Jones testified he does not remember "whatever the act of deleting was" or "why I deleted the text messages." Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones faces disciplinary hearing "…

Attorney: Commissioner Justin Jones deleted texts as part of 'political cleansing'

The attorney for Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones said Monday that Jones deleted text messages sought in a development lawsuit as a "political cleansing" to put a long-running controversy behind him. The remark came during the first day of a three-day hearing before the State Bar of Nevada, which is arguing to suspend Jones's law license for five years, after both state and federal judges accused him of destroying text message evidence rel…