Los Angeles, California - Richard A. Bailey, 57, of Las Vegas, Nevada has been convicted of securities fraud involving the willful distribution of unregistered shares in Gateway Distributors Ltd., United States Attorney André Birotte, Jr. announced today.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - The former president and chief executive officer of U.S. Mortgage, a loan servicing company in Nevada, pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank out of more than $8 million. 

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Las Vegas, Nevada - The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Solar Decathlon Team, Team Las Vegas, is a finalist in the U. S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013.  UNLV’s selection as one of twenty teams to participate is a triumph for UNLV, Las Vegas, and Nevada.  An inter-disciplinary team of UNLV students has been building and designing the ultra-efficient home, called DesertSol, for nearly two years.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - Las Vegas attorney Stanley A. Walton, 54, has pled guilty to a charge brought against him in February 2011 that he participated in a scheme to obtain mortgage loans from financial institutions using straw buyers and false loan applications, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - A man who made false statements to a federally insured credit union to obtain a $7.5 million commercial real estate loan was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Roger L. Hunt to 98 months in prison and five years of supervised release and was ordered to pay restitution to the credit union, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - It seems as if there is a new race in Las Vegas every weekend. Everything from the Color Run to Tough Mudder, Las Vegans have signed up in droves for these national races to be doused in paint or caked in mud.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - Anthony K. Mastrogiovanni, 30, of Crofton, Md., pleaded guilty to the sexual exploitation of minors to produce child pornography.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - Robert David Forsyth, of Las Vegas, was sentenced late Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to 27 months in prison for income tax evasion and failing to file income tax returns, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - A man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud for his role in the embezzlement of nearly $5.6 million from Turnberry Associates, the parent company that owned or developed the Residences at MGM, Town Square shopping center, Turnberry Place, Turnberry Towers, and the Stirling Club in Las Vegas, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.

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Las Vegas, Nevada - The Rob Roy inNEVation Center hosted the fourth annual Las Vegas Startup Weekend held May 3-5. More than 120 participants pitched ideas, with 13 teams forming around top ideas for a marathon weekend of modeling, coding, designing, analyzing and ultimately pitching a big idea to launch a company. UniteMe.org, a cause-related marketing web site, received top honors. The team included Kevin Goble, Taylor Barnett, Jesse Tsai, Michelle Boghassian, Rafael Arizaga and Fred Jackson.

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