A Las Vegas man was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for his role in a sweeping scheme to steal $4.4 million in state and federal unemployment benefits. Efrain Garcia, 41, was the first of four men who pleaded guilty in the scam.
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Brandon Snowden was supposed to throw away three bags of shredded, potentially incriminating documents from the office files of attorney Brian Bloomfield following a police raid in April 2010.
It wasn’t an easy few weeks for Las Vegas cabdrivers. Between Dec. 30 and Jan. 16, drivers were robbed, beaten and shot at in a series of seven robberies that police say were conducted by a brazen group of teenage gangsters.
Former business partners of developer and high-profile lobbyist Harvey Whittemore are accusing him of embezzling and misappropriating more than $40 million.
Dr. Dipak Desai, the physician at the center of the hepatitis C outbreak, has been “exaggerating” the effects of two strokes, state medical experts testified Friday.
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