LAS VEGAS (AP) — An audit report shows a former executive of the publicly funded agency responsible for promoting Las Vegas hid the purchase of $90,000 in Southwest Airlines gift cards.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports an audit on the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has found that the executive did not disclose the purchase as gift cards, but explained in funding requests between 2012 and 2017 that the money was for promotional events.
Brig Lawson, the former senior director of business partnerships, also instructed airline employees to send invoices to the authority without mentioning the purchases were for the cards.
Lawson resigned as auditors finalized the report. The newspaper could not reach Lawson for comment Monday.
Convention authority spokeswoman Jacqueline Peterson declined to discuss his resignation, citing it as a personnel matter.
