Alexander Smirnov is accused of falsely telling the FBI that executives with Burisma paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each in an alleged bribery scheme.
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Katelyn Newberg began covering the courts and legal affairs for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in October 2021. Following two internships, she joined the newspaper staff in 2018 as a breaking news reporter. She is a native of central Florida and a 2018 graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.
Court documents filed Friday show that Alexander Smirnov is scheduled to appear in a California federal court for a detention hearing early next week.
A former FBI informant accused of lying to officials about an alleged multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter was arrested again in Las Vegas.
District Judge Tierra Jones set a trial date for four teenagers facing charges as adults in connection with the fatal beating of a Rancho High School student.
Sean Larimer appeared in court again Thursday, after a Las Vegas judge said he issued a bench warrant because Larimer was drinking while out of custody.
The Nevada Department of Corrections, which requested an arrest warrant for a prisoner more than a year after he was released, later asked a Las Vegas judge to quash the warrant.
Lynch had been charged with misdemeanor counts of DUI, failing to drive in a travel lane and driving an unregistered vehicle. A trial was set to begin Wednesday.
The murder trial for a former elected official accused of killing Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German is scheduled to begin next month, but attorneys may still push back the case.
Alexander Smirnov will remain under electronic monitoring as he awaits a hearing on allegations that he lied about an alleged bribery scheme involving Joe Biden.
A Las Vegas judge has postponed a murder trial date for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man accused of orchestrating the killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.
A state prisoner convicted of a 1996 murder spent more than a year out of custody until the Department of Corrections realized he was unaccounted for, court records show.
Deobra Redden was indicted earlier this month on charges including attempted murder and an unlawful act regarding bodily fluids.
The federal lawsuit alleges a new county ordinance preventing stopping and standing on Strip pedestrian bridges violates the public’s First Amendment rights.
Alexander Smirnov is accused of lying to authorities about a bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company.
The Nevada Supreme Court has found that rules making some Family Court hearings automatically closed to the public are unconstitutional.
