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Prosecutors struggle to prove conspiracy in Bundy cases

Federal prosecutors throughout the West have struggled recently to win conspiracy convictions against groups of loosely organized individual rights activists who identify with an anti-government movement that is best known for staging armed protests on federally managed land.

Settlement in Las Vegas Strip nightclub attack wipes out $160M verdict

Lawyers for a former New York hedge fund manager who was attacked by security officers at a Cosmopolitan nightclub reached a undisclosed settlement agreement Friday, essentially wiping out a $160.5 milllion verdict returned earlier this week.

 
Judge declares mistrial in Bundy Ranch standoff case

A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the first Bunkerville standoff case, which targeted six men accused of conspiring with rancher Cliven Bundy to derail a court-ordered cattle seizure in 2014.

Las Vegas man accused of acting as teen girl’s pimp

Federal prosecutors have filed trafficking and coercion charges against a Las Vegas man accused of driving a 15-year-old girl to a fire station for sex.

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Lawyers give closing arguments in 1st Bunkerville standoff trial

A federal prosecutor on Wednesday characterized six Bunkerville protesters as militiamen who heeded rancher Cliven Bundy’s call to arms, while defense attorneys used closing arguments to portray the men as peaceful demonstrators asserting their constitutional rights.

Testimony wraps up in first Bunkerville standoff trial

Two months of testimony in the first Bunkerville standoff trial concluded Monday with a defendant’s dramatic assertion that authorities sat in foxholes waiting to shoot protesters who arrived at the site where federal agents for days had been rounding up Cliven Bundy’s cattle.