America’s casino capital is known for its towering resorts, but it also has seen numerous real estate plans come and go.
Eli Segall
Reporter: Real estate
Email: esegall@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0342
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Eli Segall joined the Review-Journal in August 2016 after covering real estate and other business topics for four years at the Las Vegas Sun. He also worked for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, The Associated Press and other news groups. Segall has a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland. His awards include 2017 Story of the Year from the Nevada Press Association.
In 2022, 47 employees with the city of Mesquite took home more than $100,000 in wages each.
Buolder City puts the brakes on growth, and its population barely budged over the past decade or so. Nonetheless, city government has spent millions more on its workforce in recent years.
Brendan Keating’s investment firm acquired several properties that his brokerage firm was hired to shop around.
Steve Hill, head of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, earned a salary of roughly $447,600 in 2022.
Lewis Jordan, executive director of the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority, earned more than $257,000 in base pay in 2022.
Nevada attorneys made big promises when they pushed for a change to probate law more than a decade ago.
A cottage industry of private administrators, real estate agents, house-flippers and others cashed in on homes across Southern Nevada after the owners died.
Eli Segall’s top investigative stories included real estate scams and a tribal nation’s big-money land deals on the Strip that didn’t sit well with everyone back home.
Las Vegas’ long-delayed north Strip resort has seen owners come, go and, in one case, return.
Attorneys for the accused say federal law enforcement has opened a criminal probe of the alleged Ponzi-like scheme.
WeedGenics claimed to have facilities in Nevada and California that U.S. financial regulators say didn’t exist.
Jim Marsh has dealt with scams in his business, but recently a scammer tried to fraudulently sell land he owns in Colorado.
The Three Affiliated Tribes acquired 23 acres along Las Vegas Boulevard, but some tribal citizens believe money could be better spent on the reservation.
Scam artists find out about pending sales and try to get the proceeds diverted to their accounts, the FBI said.