Lawrence Davidson, a disbarred attorney who failed to show up for his money laundering trial five years ago and fled the country, is back in federal custody in Las Vegas.
Courts
A complex fraternal dispute within a prominent Chicago business family has spilled into the Las Vegas courts.
A longtime Las Vegas attorney was convicted of tax evasion charges Friday in federal court. Ian Christopherson, a 2008 judicial candidate, was indicted in 2009 on one count of income tax evasion and one count of employment tax evasion.
Federal prosecutors kept the ball rolling Friday with a fourth guilty plea in the sweeping investigation into fraud and corruption at Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
Filmmaker Peter Berg testified Thursday in Las Vegas and said Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle gave him an AK-47 as a “trophy weapon” in 2009 after the pair developed a friendship in Iraq.
Carolyn Ellsworth, a former prosecutor and private attorney now with the Nevada secretary of state’s office, was appointed Thursday by Gov. Brian Sandoval to serve as a district judge in Clark County.
Following a week of rancorous legal sparring, U.S. Magistrate Carl Hoffman Thursday ordered Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson to give his deposition next month at the downtown law office of his legal nemesis, Don Campbell.
Prosecutors set the stage for an awkward courtroom confrontation Wednesday when they called a Colorado resident as a witness against his longtime friend, a Navy SEAL accused of smuggling machine guns and explosives into the country from Iraq.
A dispute over where Sheldon Adelson should give a legal deposition has provided a quirky look at the billionaire behind the scenes. Earlier this week, Adelson’s lawyers filed court papers seeking to avoid taking the deposition at the offices of attorney Don Campbell for what they called security reasons. Campbell is suing Adelson to recover more than $100,000 in overtimefor former Adelson driver Kwame Luangisa.
Medical experts at the state’s mental hospital in Sparks have found Dr. Dipak Desai competent to stand trial on criminal charges in the hepatitis C outbreak, District Attorney David Roger confirmed Wednesday.
