Former Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson is expected to plead guilty to a federal wire fraud charge, his lawyer told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday.
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David Ferrara covers courts and legal affairs. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
A judge ordered Las Vegas attorney Alexis Plunkett, mired in legal trouble and facing two separate criminal cases, held without bail Wednesday.
A Las Vegas man, who walked free on a string of armed robbery charges before being convicted of the same crime, was ordered to serve more than seven years in federal prison for backing his BMW into a police car when authorities arrested him on a probation violation.
Las Vegas attorney Alexis Plunkett was arrested Tuesday on one count of bribing or intimidating a witness and one count of dissuading or preventing a person from testifying.
Convicted Las Vegas murderer Kevin Lisle has indicated that he intends to stop fighting his execution, according to court documents filed Monday.
A former Las Vegas fire captain pleaded guilty to two felonies Monday after authorities accused him of paying a teenage girl $300 to have sex with him inside a fire station.
A federal jury this week awarded more than $3.9 million to the slot machine chain Dotty’s in a trial over the Las Vegas City Council’s 2015 failure to issue a permanent tavern license to one of its locations.
Strip illusionist Jan Rouven fainted Thursday after a federal judge sentenced him to 2o years in prison for possessing, receiving and distributing thousands of videos and images of child pornography.
A judge on Thursday increased bail for Antwon Perkins, a former state corrections officer accused in at least two abduction and sexual assault cases involving minors.
A federal judge in Las Vegas on Wednesday sentenced a Florida man to 63 months in prison for leading a timeshare scheme that defrauded upward of 1,000 people out of more than $3 million.
A Las Vegas photographer who possessed more than a million sexually explicit images of children pleaded guilty Monday to child exploitation and pornography charges.
A Las Vegas woman was ordered to pay nearly $14 million in connection with a series of fraud schemes and was sentenced Thursday to 34 months in prison, according to the Department of Justice.
A Las Vegas jury convicted a 52-year-old man Thursday of dozens of counts for wielding a decade of sexual torture over his own children and other family members.
Ten years to the day her son died, Karen Brill-Kelley carried his urn into a Las Vegas courtroom on Thursday as one of his killers was sent to prison.
A federal judge has barred a conservative internet talk show host and figure in the 2014 Bunkerville standoff from interviewing President Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone while Stone is under federal indictment.
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