In 1994, tried two of the men who extorted $1.45 million from the Mirage Hotel and Casino in 1993 by kidnapping the daughter of Mirage Resorts CEO Steve Wynn. A third defendant pled and cooperated with the Government. Cuddy was the ringleader and a failed Newport Beach, California, businessman; the accomplices he recruited were young …
U.S. v Jacob Sherwood and Ray Marion Cuddy (“Strip Under Siege – Part II”) Read More »
Prosecuted five Los Angeles Crips, including the first juvenile transferred to District Court in Nevada, for the takeover robbery of Harrah’s Hotel and Casino. The surveillance video of the thugs jumping into the casino cage, with one holding around the neck with a gun to his head, was shown extensively on national media, creating a …
U.S. v Govan et. al. (“Strip Under Siege – Part III”) Read More »
After conducting an extensive investigation into the attempted bombing of the IRS offices in Reno with a fertilizer bomb, charged two subjects with perjury and false statements (convicted one after trial, the other was convicted after trial by another AUSA). Indicted Bailie and Hurst for Conspiracy, Attempted Arson by Explosives, Use of Firearm (to wit: …
U.S. v Joseph Bailie and Ellis Hurst (“Anti-Government Poster Boys”) Read More »
A True Las Vegas Crime Story: U.S. v Rick Lee Archer and Gene DiUlio (“The Ultimate Escape Artists”) This true Las Vegas crime story is about Rick Lee Archer and Gene DiUlio. These two defendants, members of the Aryan Brotherhood, were the last prisoners to escape from a federal maximum security facility (Lompoc, CA). They then …
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Prosecuted a defendant who had traveled to Las Vegas from Louisiana to construct and mail pipe bombs and tarot cards to President Clinton at the White House; to Texas televangelist John Hagee in San Antonio, and to the ATF offices in Las Vegas. The Clinton bomb detonated in a Post Office tractor trailer in Washington …
U.S. v Frank Darwin Alexander (“Not in the Cards”) Read More »
At the request of Las Vegas Metro Vice, prosecuted a notorious childabusing low-life who called himself “Gorgeous Dre” or alternatively “The Big Pimp”. Metro identified him as a major interstate panderer of juveniles. We learned that the defendant was being featured in the Hughes Brothers (Menace to Society, Dead Presidents, etc.) documentary film “American Pimp, …
U.S. v Andre Lavon Taylor (“Little Pimp, Big Mouth”) Read More »