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Las Vegas Weekly

22 Las Vegas headlines from 2022

Attendance at January's CES tech show fell more than 75% compared to its previous in-person event in 2020, but it helped get the ball rolling for the return of conventions to Southern Nevada after nearly two years of COVID-cleared calendars. More than 40000 people attended the event, and 2023 attendance is expected to rebound by 70%. The best new…

Incidents ・ 22 December 2022

Fox 5 Vegas

Police: Las Vegas journalist dies in stabbing outside home

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Las Vegas investigative reporter was stabbed to death outside his home and police are looking for a suspect, authorities said. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers found journalist Jeff German, 69, dead with stab wounds around 10:30 a.m. Saturday after authorities received a 911 call, the Las Vegas Review-Journal…

Incidents ・ 15 September 2022

Daily Mail Online

Las Vegas Dem official 'throttled wife in drunken Bellagio casino brawl' court documents reveal

A Las Vegas Democratic official who is accused of killing a journalist who exposed his affair had previously been arrested for abusing his wife and resisting arrest. Robert Telles, 45, was arrested on March 1, 2020, after Metropolitan police received a frantic call from his wife, Mae Ismael, shortly after 11pm the night before. She told officers…

Land-based ・ 15 September 2022

Nevada Public Radio

Las Vegas police search local official's home after journalist's stabbing death

Police in Las Vegas visited the home of a county official Wednesday as they continue to investigate the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, the newspaper said. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department only confirmed in a statement to NPR that it was executing search warrants related to the weekend homicide on the…

Incidents ・ 08 September 2022

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Review Journal

Las Vegas investigative journalist Jeff German killed

Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, one of Nevada's most accomplished and trusted journalists, was found dead with stab wounds outside his home Saturday morning. German, whose work in Las Vegas spanned more than three decades, made a career of breaking big stories about everything from organized crime and government…

Religion ・ 04 September 2022

Review Journal

Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas was run by the mob in 1970s

When the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts opened in July 1976 with a music legend, Neil Diamond, it was a $10 million, state-of-the-art entertainment center meant to lure new sophisticated tourists to the city during the beginnings of a tourism boom. Though the new venue was designed to be part of the city's future, it was built on its…

Finance ・ 20 September 2021

Gambling News

The Mob Birthed Las Vegas, It Did Not Succeed It

Las Vegas' connection to the mob is its ancestry. However, corporate casinos are its future. The "Mobbed Up" podcast explains how Vegas' casino industry was born and what role mobsters played in it. The Mob once flocked to Las Vegas, fully cognizant of the desert city's potential. Of course, at the time, Vegas wasn't much of a city. Yet, even…

Gaming Authorities ・ 11 August 2021

West Island

How Las Vegas Casino Transitioned from Mob Run to Corporate Ownership

Nevada casinos for years were run by Mob until the 1960s, two factors contributed to the decline of Mob infiltration into Las Vegas casinos, one the Black Book and two, the corporate casino ownership. An eight-series podcast hosted by Jeff German, the Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter, explains how Las Vegas casinos transitioned from…

Land-based ・ 10 August 2021

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