(The Center Square) – Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo and Attorney General Aaron Ford, who have both been scrutinized in the recent past for their financial dealings, have filed their annual disclosure reports.
Thursday was the deadline for the disclosures, which, under state law, are required for all state and local elected or appointed officials. Ford, a Democrat, and Lombardo, a Republican, disclosed their financial statements in a year that will likely see one of them elected govenor. They’re the early frontrunners in their parties’ primaries on June 9. They’re expected to face each other in the Nov. 3 general election.
Lombardo’s report showed he made $177,000 in 2025 as governor. He listed eight properties in his Financial Disclosure Statement owned by household members, not including his personal residence. They included five plots of land between Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson and Gilbert, Arizona. He also listed two apartments in New York City, both in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Lombardo listed no debts owed over $5,000, nor any gifts received from non-family members above $200, or business entities which he owned 1% or more of.
Lombardo did list one travel expense, a meeting with the Republican Governor’s Association to Bozeman, Montana and Aspen, Colorado. It totaled $6,649.81.
In the past, Lombardo has been scrutinized for accepting $150,000 in annual pension payments for his work as the sheriff overseeing the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Again for 2025, he listed the pension payments from the sheriff position as income, although the exact figure has not been publicly disclosed yet for 2025. The last available data from 2022 showed $180,947.04.
Lombardo did not respond to multiple requests for comment by The Center Square about his financial records.
For his part, Ford made $160,000 in 2025 as Nevada’s attorney general. The only other source of income he listed was for a household member from Nevada State College, and he listed no owned property outside of his personal residence, which is not publicly disclosed. Nor did he list any business entities or gifts from non-family members above $200.
The only personal debts over $5,000 were to American Express and the U.S. Department of Education.
Ford has been heavily scrutinized by the media and his political opponents since his bid for governor was announced in late July. The debate over him partially centered around his frequent and expensive travel outside the state.
Ford spent an estimated 137 days outside Nevada in 2024, with part of the criticism aimed at his annual Financial Disclosure Statement from January 2025. In it, he detailed four international trips paid for by the Attorney General Alliance, totaling $35,000. The listed purpose for the meetings among America’s attorney generals was “Chair [meetings] about gaming and int’l crime.”
But Thursday’s statement listed no international or domestic trips for Ford in 2025. His office has not released the attorney general’s calendar for 2025 and did not respond to The Center Square’s multiple requests for comment about his financial records.
Failure to file by the Jan. 15 deadline for the annual Financial Disclosure Statement to the Secretary of State’s Office can result in a civil penalty, according to state law. The penalties can range from $25 to $2,000, depending on how late the statement is filed.
