Police are conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that a Las Vegas assemblyman misused campaign funds and failed to live in his district, the Review-Journal has learned.
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A Las Vegas mail carrier is among a handful of people charged in an ongoing effort to crack down on fraudulent unemployment claims filed with Nevada’s employment agency.
After Las Vegas prosecutors threw out charges against Republican consultant Benjamin Sparks, he was arrested late Tuesday in connection with an alleged rape in Atlanta.
The former school bus driver initially faced 41 counts but pleaded guilty in 2018 to one count each of sexual assault with a minor under 16 and lewdness with a child under 14.
State officials have temporarily stopped the Department of Corrections from using a victims’ bill of rights law to take up to 80 percent of money sent by families to some prisoners.
A recent series of shootings and assaults on the Strip have worried the elected officials who oversee the tourist corridor. Police say increased efforts to quell it are working.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada announces it will work with the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery to investigate coronavirus fraud.
The 2018 donations occurred around the time the lawyer, Brian C. Padgett, improperly took about $152,000 of a client’s money, campaign records show.