The Nevada Supreme Court hit the restart button for attorney Noel Gage, one of three men convicted after an investigation into doctors and lawyers in cahoots to drive up medical costs in personal injury cases.
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If you are a regular reader of this column you already know that one of my ongoing concerns is that any money you give to nonprofits be used for the best purpose.
Based on how the late Marjorie Barrick’s wishes to keep the Barrick Lecture Series going strong after her death and how the lectures have been allowed to languish, I’m not sure I’d give the UNLV Foundation millions. Presuming I had millions.
“Nevada Week in Review” is not dead, but it has been on life support since July. That’s longer than expected when it was announced the Vegas PBS show was taking a “summer hiatus.”
When wealthy Las Vegas attorney Robert Eglet presented an education seminar to more than 200 attorneys and judges and put up a slide showing mug shots of Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice James Hardesty and mobster Al Capone side by side, some laughed. Others didn’t.
Ann McGee, the founder of Miracle Flights for Kids in 1985, has departed with an annual retirement of $344,000, or 75 percent of her most recent salary of $430,000.
Las Vegan Mark Brown is winding down a lucrative consulting business to become national CEO of Miracle Flights for Kids, a nonprofit founded by Ann McGee 30 years ago, which has become mired in controversy.
Although I have never been a perp, I participated on a famous perp walk in 1983 and have the black-and-white photo to prove it. The perp was later-to-be-murdered mobster Anthony Spilotro. The serious-looking FBI agent walking him by the press was Marc Kaspar.
Retired FBI agent and author Gary Magnesen has changed his mind. He no longer believes the late U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne was leaking materials from FBI search warrant affidavits to the mob in the early 1980s, as he wrote in his 2010 book, “Straw Men.”
Las Vegan Deborah Richard is not a movie critic, but she contends the movie “Casino” was spot on, while the current movie “Black Mass,” with the exception of Johnny Depp as James “Whitey” Bulger, didn’t capture the two corrupt FBI agents involved.