The yearslong ethics case over Gov. Joe Lombardo’s use of his Clark County sheriff’s badge in campaign materials while running for governor has come to a close.

The Nevada Commission on Ethics approved Tuesday a stipulated agreement in which Lombardo admitted to one nonwillful violation of the ethics law and agreed to pay a $5,000 civil penalty, according to the commission.

“We are grateful that a majority of the Ethics Commission members voted to approve the Stipulated Agreement resolving the disciplinary matter instituted against Governor Lombardo when he was Clark County Sheriff,” the governor’s attorneys said in a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “We have maintained from the beginning that this was a case that should never have been brought and certainly never should have a

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