Citing mismanagement, Lutheran Social Services of Nevada employees and board members quit more than a year before the nonprofit paused its food programs for the poor.
Investigations
Our Las Vegas investigative reporters focus on holding leaders and agencies accountable and exposing wrongdoing. Explore our in-depth local investigations and reporting.
Attorney general’s office said the lawsuits’ costs are minimal, but the Review-Journal doesn’t have the receipts.
Nevada’s attorney general, who is running for governor in 2026, was out of state for about 137 days last year. Gov. Joe Lombardo spent about 30 days out of state.
A review panel found credible evidence of ethics violations by Jimmy Floyd, Clark County’s former head of construction management.
A Nevada Court of Appeals ruling paves the way for some retired first responders to receive disability compensation, potentially costing taxpayers millions.
Clark County fired Jimmy Floyd following its probe of a conflict of interest involving his wife’s firm but declined to say if others were disciplined.
A background check on Shane Tamura had not been been completed before he purchased the AR-style weapon used to fatally shoot four people in Manhattan.
The Nevada Commission on Ethics is investigating whether public funds were misused in the purchase of Southwest Airlines gift cards by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, informed sources said.
Nearly three months after a Review-Journal investigation led police to seize the government funds of Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell, Clark County officials continue to send money to an account that he controls.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Board sent CEO Rossi Ralenkotter into retirement Tuesday with a roaring applause, video tribute and $455,000 financial package.
Las Vegas tourism CEO Rossi Ralenkotter did not report nearly 200 hours of paid time off that he took while traveling on personal business using taxpayer-funded gift cards, records show.
Attorneys for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board have agreed to sweeten a pending deal for CEO Rossi Ralenkotter by upping his post-retirement consulting contract to $270,000 amid a police investigation of the agency.
With a looming public vote on a retirement package for Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Rossi Ralenkotter, a key board member said Friday he wants more details about the police investigation into the mishandling of $90,000 in Southwest Airlines gift cards.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Board on Tuesday will consider a lucrative retirement package and 18-month consulting contract for CEO Rossi Ralenkotter after being informed that police so far have not found any evidence of wrongdoing by him in their criminal investigation of the agency.
A Clark County judge sharply rebuked the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday for withholding public records requested by the Review-Journal about sex trafficking cases and prostitution arrests, saying that the department’s reaction to the newspaper “boggles the mind.”
Clark County’s new administrator of human services may have violated a state ethics law when he quit the county two years ago to work for a software company he recommended for a no-bid contract, the Review-Journal has found.
A Nevada assemblyman has joined those opposing a lucrative retirement buyout for embattled Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Rossi Ralenkotter, calling it a public “shakedown.”
LISTEN TO THE TOP FIVE HERE