A longtime Nevada lawmaker-turned-lobbyist faces potential prison time over allegations he failed to report more than $120,000 in campaign contributions and instead put the money in a personal checking account.
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Jose Lopez-Buelna, who once was suspected of helping kidnap 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger in a case that attracted national headlines, and his lawyer, Robert Draskovich, each filed motions this week asking to end their attorney-client relationship.
LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures Entertainment has agreed to provide a private screening for Dr. Conrad Murray and his defense attorneys to view some 100 hours of raw footage of Michael Jackson’s rehearsals for his “This Is It” concert.
Brandon Hill wondered aloud Wednesday why he was spending his 23rd birthday in jail accused of killing Michael Alano Portaro, 22, outside a brew pub March 30. Speaking over a video link at the Clark County Detention Center, Hill, who has been in and out of jail the past few years, said he’s not the shooter.
Harel Zahavi told jurors he never intended to defraud four Las Vegas casinos out of $384,000 in gambling markers. But his testimony didn’t stop a jury Wednesday from convicting him of four felony counts. He faces one to four years in prison and a maximum $5,000 fine on each count at an Oct. 27 sentencing.
Police said Tuesday that Brandon J. Hill, 22, had been charged with murder in the March 30 slaying of Michael Alano Portaro, 22, outside the Tenaya Creek Brewery. They said a cigarette tossed aside by the suspect just before the shooting contained Hill’s DNA.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $58 million award to three Nevada women who claimed they suffered breast cancer after taking menopause drugs.
