Jason Jaeger's Ethics Vacuum: What Nevada’s Silence on Jaeger’s Conflicts Reveals About the Cartel’s Culture
Originally published: 2025-10-30
A State Board Without a Moral Compass
The Nevada Chiropractic Physicians’ Board (CPBN) is supposed to protect the public interest, not private empires. Yet newly released public records show the board’s secretary–treasurer, Dr. Jason Jaeger, has not disclosed or recused himself despite holding overlapping posts that would make any ethics officer blush.
Jaeger sits as Vice President of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE), the same private corporation whose exams Nevada law requires for licensure, and as a Director of the International Chiropractors Association (ICA), one of the profession’s most visible political groups.
When the board advanced AB 513, legislation cementing NBCE and CCE dominance in Nevada’s statutes, public records show Jaeger was deeply involved. The board’s executive director, Julie Strandberg, and its lobbyist, Strategies 360, prepared talking points for him and helped usher the bill through the legislature.
“The records we provided to you are all that we have,” wrote Strandberg in response to a public records request.
Translation: there are no disclosures, no recusals, and no internal ethics discussions, nothing.
A review of Nevada state board meeting minutes and recordings shows Jaeger routinely discussing NBCE business including this statement during the July 2024 Board meeting where he bragged about how much money the NBCE’s for profit arm (EBAS) that it hides under its non profit is raking in:
Dr. Jaeger expressed that the NBCE is working toward streamlining the exam process to be competency-based testing and has a strong collaboration with the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC) and the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) to reduce the cost of the test. Dr. Jaeger shared that the revenue from the EBAS program has doubled, which is the for-profit portion of the NBCE and the target from the revenue is beginning to off-set the costs of chiropractic testing and will ultimately lead to eliminating costs to the chiropractic students.
The Missing Paper Trail
Nevada’s ethics code isn’t ambiguous. NRS 281A.420 requires any public officer whose independence of judgment “may be materially affected” by a private commitment to disclose that conflict on the record and, in most cases, abstain from participation.
Strandberg’s official response confirms that none of that happened. She produced only a boilerplate “Acknowledgement of Ethical Standards” form, a ceremonial signature page that proves Jaeger once received the law, not that he ever followed it.
“None,” she wrote, again and again, no disclosure forms, no abstentions, no counsel guidance.
That single word now defines the CPBN’s approach to transparency.
From Statehouse to ICA Boardroom
The timing could not be worse. As the International Chiropractors Association reels from mass resignations and internal turmoil, Jaeger’s silence on ethics inside Nevada’s regulatory board casts a long shadow over his role in the ICA’s governance.
If he ignores statutory disclosure duties in a public office, duties backed by Nevada’s Ethics Commission and enforceable by law, how seriously can anyone expect him to handle conflicts in a private nonprofit where transparency depends entirely on trust?
The ICA’s current meltdown is rooted in the same culture Jaeger embodies, power concentrated in a small circle, accountability optional, disclosure inconvenient.
The Cartel’s Operating System
This is the pattern.
NBCE, which sells exams, writes the rules.
FCLB, which claims to represent regulators, runs committees that blur private and public boundaries.
State boards, staffed or chaired by the same individuals, rubber-stamp whatever is put before them.
Nevada’s records show that Jaeger, simultaneously an NBCE executive, ICA board member, and state regulator, never even acknowledged the inherent conflict.
And yet he continues to make motions, cast votes, and sign contracts for lobbying services using public funds to advance NBCE’s and the board’s own legislative agenda.
“No disclosures. No recusals. A Board-authored script supporting the bill its own officer shepherded for the private testing company he helps run.”
That’s not regulation, that’s capture.
When Silence Becomes Policy
The Nevada board’s refusal to document or even discuss Jaeger’s conflicts tells us something profound: the absence of ethics is not an oversight, it’s a design choice.
By declining to act, the board has normalized what would be unthinkable in any other regulatory body. The same normalization infects the national institutions that dominate chiropractic politics.
As the ICA fractures and NBCE expands its reach through the so-called “Advancement Project,” Nevada’s case becomes a cautionary tale. It shows how deeply the Chiropractic Cartel has embedded itself, from state law to national policy, and how governance failures at every level sustain it.
A Call for Sunlight
The solution isn’t complicated. It begins with a public record of truth:
Every board member’s affiliations listed in meeting minutes.
Every potential conflict disclosed and discussed on the record.
Every abstention documented, not whispered.
Until then, the profession’s credibility remains hostage to those who confuse silence with integrity.
“When ethics are optional at the top, accountability dies everywhere else.”
Nevada has just handed the Chiropractic Cartel its clearest victory yet, not through bold reform, but through the quiet erasure of ethics.
