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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I’m an amateur when it comes to celebrating the arrival of the new year in the resort corridor. In my more than 20 years as a denizen of Southern Nevada, I’ve spent just two New Year’s Eves among the revelers, estimated this year to be around 332,000 strong.
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.
One of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do is take the keys away from the family patriarch. When it’s time for that to happen, it’s bound to provoke arguments, heartaches and headaches for all parties involved. But it’s also a necessary step in the life cycle.
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.
Tall and slim, with long, blond hair, Deborah Richard could look like an expensive call girl or a bag lady. She could wear an auburn wig and heavy makeup and look like a hooker. She could be the perfect ditz or the perfect waitress.