Brendan Keating’s investment firm acquired several properties that his brokerage firm was hired to shop around.
Eli Segall
Reporter: Investigations
Email: esegall@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0342
Eli Segall joined the Review-Journal’s investigations team in 2023 after covering real estate for the paper since 2016. Before the RJ, he covered real estate and other business topics for four years at the Las Vegas Sun. Segall has also worked for the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, The Associated Press and other news groups. He has a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland. He has earned awards from the Nevada Press Association, Best of the West, New York State Society of CPAs, National Association of Real Estate Editors, and others.
Steve Hill, head of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, earned a salary of roughly $447,600 in 2022.
Lewis Jordan, executive director of the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority, earned more than $257,000 in base pay in 2022.
Nevada attorneys made big promises when they pushed for a change to probate law more than a decade ago.
A cottage industry of private administrators, real estate agents, house-flippers and others cashed in on homes across Southern Nevada after the owners died.
Eli Segall’s top investigative stories included real estate scams and a tribal nation’s big-money land deals on the Strip that didn’t sit well with everyone back home.
A Dec. 13 opening will mark new chapter for the north Strip hotel-casino, whose saga of construction began in 2005 and saw years of delays.
The Fontainebleau project in Las Vegas has a long history marked by bankruptcy proceedings, halted construction, different sets of owners, name changes, and national economic meltdowns.
Las Vegas’ long-delayed north Strip resort has seen owners come, go and, in one case, return.
Attorneys for the accused say federal law enforcement has opened a criminal probe of the alleged Ponzi-like scheme.
WeedGenics claimed to have facilities in Nevada and California that U.S. financial regulators say didn’t exist.
Jim Marsh has dealt with scams in his business, but recently a scammer tried to fraudulently sell land he owns in Colorado.
The Three Affiliated Tribes acquired 23 acres along Las Vegas Boulevard, but some tribal citizens believe money could be better spent on the reservation.
Scam artists find out about pending sales and try to get the proceeds diverted to their accounts, the FBI said.
The notion of selling someone’s property without them knowing might seem far-fetched, but attempting the scam isn’t difficult.
