A second man charged in a federal probe into rigged poker and sports betting schemes involving former NBA players and members of Mafia families has ties to Las Vegas, according to court records.
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Jorge Gomez was killed by police in downtown Las Vegas on the third night of protests over the murder of George Floyd.
Former NBA player Damon Jones is charged, along with several others, in the Eastern District of New York with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
Las Vegas attorney Matthew Beasley could face up to 100 years in prison for the Ponzi scheme, but federal prosecutors agreed to argue for a sentence not to exceed 20 years.
U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware said the two sides in the case seemed to have honed in on the weapon pointing issue.
The lawyer representing the officers says police acted in self-defense. The family’s lawyer says they used excessive force.
Prosecutors asked Jaqueline Bluth to sentence Eliazar Quintero, 43, to the maximum penalty after he pleaded guilty to killing nine-year-old SirArmani Clark and injuring Honor Tate in a 2023 apartment shooting.
A professional poker player has spent months in a Las Vegas jail after he was accused of threatening a District Court judge and a World Poker Tour executive.
Some family and supporters of the victim expressed displeasure with the sentence the defendant received.
At the time of the deadly collision, Nikki Serrat was driving a stolen vehicle and had fled from police.
Matthew Beasley, who was apprehended after a 2022 Las Vegas standoff, solicited over $519 million in investments from over 1,200 people, according to court documents.
Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state by more than 30,000 votes.
One teen, accused of being a shooter, appeared before Family Judge Dee Butler in a wheelchair.
A Las Vegas man faces six felony counts following a suspected DUI crash near Blue Diamond Road and Interstate 15 that a 69-year-old woman dead
Roidan Mendoza, 40, pleaded guilty in August to a count of murder with use of a deadly weapon in connection with the August 2023 killing of Marillorky Tamayo Cruz.