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In 2021, the Review-Journal’s investigative squad and Metro reporters delivered dozens of stories that held leaders and agencies accountable and exposed wrongdoing.
We scoured thousands of nationalist documents and filed hundreds of records requests, obtained damning video footage and interviewed countless Nevadans. We analyzed authorities information to find the occurrence of the COVID-19 effect and observe wherefore the state’s aboriginal vaccine allotment was truthful low. We fought for nationalist records that agencies wanted to support hidden.
Our heavy reporting uncovered national investigations into section authorities officials. Our months-long probe showed that constabulary officers with repeated misconduct complaints and transgression charges remained connected the job, and we revealed wherefore dozens of authorities workers fired for superior sustained misconduct got their jobs backmost done arbitration.
We kept up with victims of the Alpine Motel Apartments occurrence and exposed however a apical region authoritative utilized his bureau to payment himself connected payer time, and claimed degrees from a discredited diploma mill.
Without the Review-Journal, these stories would not person been told.
Here is immoderate of the apical investigative and exclusive endeavor enactment from our newsroom this year:
A troubled coroner’s office
Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg and his bureau received nationwide accolades pursuing the Oct. 1, 2017, onslaught astatine the Route 91 Harvest festival. But down the scenes, the coroner’s bureau was awash successful problems nether Fudenberg’s leadership: workers accused 1 different of intersexual harassment and delays successful autopsies threatened the agency’s accreditation.
Sex harassment claims, accreditation warnings. Coroner unit inactive got raises and bonuses
Fudenberg claimed assemblage degrees from a discredited diploma mill. He besides made thousands of dollars, connected payer time, for extracurricular speeches related to the Oct. 1 shooting.
Former coroner claimed iffy degrees, did extracurricular enactment connected payer time
The erstwhile coroner besides cashed retired astir $20,000 successful unused abrogation clip astatine his retirement, but his enactment calendars showed helium took hundreds of hours of abrogation that weren’t recorded successful the county’s payroll system.
Coroner’s generous status bundle raises questions of region oversight
Police: Flawed discipline, lax accountability
Henderson constabulary officers with years of sustained national complaints, allegations of intersexual misconduct oregon transgression arrests are inactive working, and immoderate person been promoted, the Review-Journal found. Reporter Arthur Kane spent months going done records and interior affairs information going backmost astir 20 years, uncovering much than 150 officers were progressive successful 5 oregon much incidents wherever misconduct allegations were filed against them.
Read the implicit series: Flawed Discipline
In different story, the paper recovered that the Clark County Citizen Review Board astir ever dismissed citizens’ complaints against Metropolitan Police Department officers, oregon sided with the department’s interior affairs determination. Out of astir 900 cases the committee received since 2018, lone 8 were referred to a proceeding sheet to determine whether Metro interior affairs made the close decisions successful effect to a misconduct complaint, records show.
Las Vegas constabulary seldom held accountable for misconduct by board
And dozens of authorities employees successful Nevada accused of misconduct were fired and past reinstated done arbitration successful the past 5 years — contempt sustained allegations and supervisors deeming them unfit for the job.
Here’s wherefore nationalist employees fired for misconduct get their jobs back
FBI investigates Las Vegas metropolis councilwoman
City Councilwoman Michele Fiore’s run finances are nether scrutiny by the FBI, the Review-Journal reported this year. Sources said the agency’s probe into Fiore dates backmost until astatine slightest January 2021, erstwhile national agents raided her Las Vegas home.
FBI questions witnesses successful Michele Fiore run concern probe
A national expansive assemblage aboriginal issued subpoenas for records pertaining to Fiore’s run and governmental enactment committee, Future for Nevadans, arsenic portion of the investigation, the Review-Journal reported.
Feds subpoena run records successful Fiore investigation
Fellow City Councilwoman Victoria Seaman besides participated successful an interrogation with FBI agents, the Review-Journal reported. Seaman has accused Fiore of breaking her digit and throwing her to the crushed successful a hallway down the City Council chambers successful January. City officials deleted surveillance videos of the alleged altercation, contempt the Review-Journal requesting copies nether Nevada’s nationalist records laws.
Seaman accuses Fiore of bullying and assaulting her astatine City Hall
City Hall video of combat betwixt 2 feuding councilwomen apt deleted
Housing authorization nether national investigation
The Review-Journal reported the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority was besides nether national probe successful the months starring up to the removal of the agency’s apical 2 employees. Without explanation, the bureau placed Executive Director Chad Williams connected paid administrative permission successful February for much than 3 months earlier letting his declaration expire.
Housing Authority removes director; volition look for caller person
Chief Operating Officer Theodore C. Tulle, the lodging authority’s second-in-command, was fired successful aboriginal March. He had been connected paid administrative permission since August 2020, the Review-Journal reported. Tulle faced a intersexual misconduct probe carried retired by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Housing authorization nether national probe earlier apical leaders removed
Attorney’s clients hold years for compensation
Victims awaiting wealth from Clark County’s largest restitution successful caller past had not received a dime aft years of waiting. In 2016, clients of erstwhile Las Vegas Attorney Robert Graham filed suit to retrieve wealth from his defunct instrumentality firm. Graham was sentenced to situation for stealing astir $17 cardinal from dozens of clients. But arsenic of January 2021, lone accountants and attorneys had been paid.
In 4 years, Graham lawsuit has paid lawyers, trustees. But not transgression victims.
Lawyers recovering funds for theft victims petition $315K for fees
Mesquite leaders retired intersexual battle victim
A young woman’s large concealed was exposed successful the tiny assemblage of Mesquite successful an improbable setting: the contention for politician successful 2020. After the woman, Kylee Tobler, shared details with the Review-Journal astir being sexually assaulted arsenic a teenager, a newsman recovered different sources and records to amusement however her lawsuit had been politicized and made nationalist during the predetermination successful a bid of mailers sent to Mesquite residents. The communicative besides raised questions astir however the transgression probe was handled.
In the contention for politician successful this tiny town, a large concealed is exposed
Metro corruption detectives question figures successful Mesquite mailer controversy
Pandemic eviction practices nether scrutiny
The institution that operates Siegel Suites received millions of dollars successful national rental assistance, but records amusement it evicted hundreds of tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic by utilizing “no-cause” evictions which were not explicitly forbidden by Nevada’s eviction moratorium for months successful 2020. Some residents alleged they were evicted due to the fact that they were down connected rent.
Their landlord got millions successful rental assistance. They faced eviction.
Following the investigation, a U.S. House sheet announced it would scrutinize The Siegel Group’s eviction practices.
The Siegel Group nether scrutiny by House sheet for eviction practices
Metro concern with ICE
After Sheriff Joe Lombardo reportedly claimed helping deport 10,000 people, the Review-Journal recovered that Metro policed were helping national officials seizure undocumented immigrants jailed for nonviolent crimes. Critics said the signifier ran contrary to Lombardo’s nationalist presumption that his section was helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehend radical accused of convulsive crimes.
Police assistance ICE prehend undocumented immigrants jailed for nonviolent crimes
COVID transparency
Reporters analyzed however good Gov. Steve Sisolak had adhered to his nationalist committedness to beryllium transparent astir the state’s COVID-19 response. They recovered that immoderate authorities offices, including Sisolak’s, had taken months to nutrient nationalist records astir the effect — and fought to support others hidden.
COVID demanded transparency. Has Nevada delivered?
The quality enactment besides revealed that Nevada had been shortchanged successful its allotment of vaccine from the national authorities owed to its reliance connected aged colonisation data.
Analysis: Nevada getting shortchanged successful vaccine dose allocation
The crushed Nevada isn’t receiving much vaccine doses conscionable became clear
Alpine fire: Victims hold for justness aft 2 years
Two years aft the downtown Alpine Motel Apartments occurrence killed six radical and injured 13, survivors are inactive waiting for justice. Many erstwhile residents accidental they’re struggling financially, are inactive displaced and person been incapable to regenerate their belongings. The preliminary proceeding successful the transgression lawsuit against the building’s owner, Adolfo Orozco, and spot manager Malinda Mier began successful August 2020 but has been halted arsenic attorneys await a tribunal ruling.
The Alpine occurrence took everything from them. They inactive hold for justice.
A caller metropolis programme to inspect dozens of perchance at-risk flat complexes for occurrence codification violations got disconnected to a sluggish start, the Review-Journal found. As of December, the metropolis had surveyed lone 5 of the 36 complexes it had identified successful April. Officials estimation the remainder volition beryllium inspected by August 2022.
Las Vegas has inspected fewer buildings successful effect to deadly Alpine Fire
Have communicative tips? Here’s however to scope the investigative team:
Michael Scott Davidson, sdavidson@reviewjournal.com
Arthur Kane, akane@reviewjournal.com
Jeff German, jgerman@reviewjournal.com
Briana Erickson, berickson@reviewjournal.com
Editor Rhonda Prast, rprast@reviewjournal.com
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