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Japanese pair extradited in $1.5B Las Vegas Ponzi scheme

Two former executives of a Las Vegas investmant company have been extradited from Japan in connection with a $1.5 billion Las Vegas Ponzi that prosecutors called one of the largest financial crimes in the country’s history.

Judge in Adelson lawsuit subject to unusual scrutiny amid Review-Journal sale

Just over a month before Sheldon Adelson’s family was revealed as the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, three reporters at the newspaper received an unusual assignment passed down from the newspaper’s corporate management: Drop everything and spend two weeks monitoring all activity of three Clark County judges.