A bill that would create an independent counsel for the Gaming Control Board and Gaming Commission would reduce the attorney general’s budget by nearly $1 million over the next two years, financial projections show.
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Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday said he would not support independent counsel for the state’s gaming regulators.
If you’re having trouble falling asleep, go listen to Wednesday’s hearing on the secret recording made of Attorney General Adam Laxalt.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt told state lawmakers Wednesday that he at no time pressured the Gaming Control Board to intervene in a private legal dispute between Las Vegas Sands Corp. and a former employee.
The people who are out to hurt Adam Laxalt’s political career were changing their story long before we knew what the Republican attorney general said in a secretly recorded conversation.
“Coincidences” keep piling up in the narrative liberals are spinning about Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett’s secret recording of a March 2016 conversation with Attorney General Adam Laxalt.
The state’s top gaming regulator said Friday that he’s concerned about political influence on the oversight of Nevada’s dominant industry and has nothing against Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a prospective Republican candidate for governor.
There’s nothing unprecedented about a Nevada attorney general intervening on behalf of the Gaming Control Board in litigation between private parties, even when one of the parties is a licensee.
A congresswoman whose district includes the Strip says the IRS should quadruple the reporting threshold for casino customer winnings from slot machines and bingo.
