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Subscribe to RSSTwo lawyers linked to a homeowner association scandal that has rocked Las Vegas have been found dead in less than a week.
The body of prominent attorney David Amesbury, who was named in a fraud investigation, was found Sunday hanging in a northern California shed just five days after Nancy Quon, a construction-defect lawyer, was found dead in her Henderson, Nev., bathtub, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
While an autopsy will take time to complete, Nevada County Chief Deputy Coroner Paul Schmidt told the Associated Press he didn’t suspect foul play in Amesbury's death.
Las Vegas media characterized Quon, 51, as a major player in the investigation. Officials are awaiting toxicology tests to determine Quon’s cause of death. As in Amesbury’s case, investigators do not suspect foul play.
David Amesbury, 57, had taken a plea deal in October in a federal investigation where defendants have admitted steering legal and construction contracts to favored firms. Ten people agreed to cooperate with federal investigators probing kickbacks and rigging of homeowner association board elections, the AP reported.
Two others also have died, according to the Review-Journal.
Christopher Van Cleef, a retired police officer, shot himself in September 2008 when his name surfaced in connection to the probe. An ex-homeowners association board member, identified as Robbi Castro, died of a drug overdose in 2010, the Review-Journal reported.
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Man, that's a rough HOA to belong to.
Seems like more than a coincidence that all these folks are dying.
Sounds like an episode of the Soprano's crossed with Goodfellas
If you've ever owned a home governed by a HOA, you wouldn't be surprised by this story. Owners try to get on the board so that they can steer contracts to their favorite companies and get kickbacks/favors as a result. The books are supposed to be open to everyone on demand, but they know how to hide their misdeeds.
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More like an episode of CSI, bring Grissom back.
This is saving taxpayers money......just hope the home owners on the short end can get a dollar amount settlement.
The Firm 2012
It could not have happened to anyone more deserving than that lot of lawyer scum.
I guess the mafia in Las Vegas has truly cleaned up its act. They just talk to these bad characters and they get so filled will remourse, they commit suicide. One case, 4 seperate cases of suicide. Must be extremely depressing to live in Las Vegas.
Goodfella "mabavipuss"
What rule is it, the no such thing as coincidence.
Their trials will not be lengthy.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Coincidence? Hmmm, or could it be that the Las Vegas law enforcement actually has more "evidence" then they want to expose?
Ohhhhh, puhhhhhlease!!! These weren't suicides. Can we spell M..A..F..I..A...
Cowards!
A self inflicted gunshot "suicide", Hung in a shed "suicide", drug overdose "suicide" bathtub drowning "suicide". Nope, nothing suspicious here. No reason to suspect foul play. Did Mr Schmidt just become a member of "The Homeowners Association"?
They could do the crime but not the time. This was a white collar crime with a free trip to club fed for a relaxing 3-5 years. They made millions scamming and getting kickbacks but didn't have the courage to stand trial. If they ever threathen Wall Street with the same thing I bet you would see a lot more of this going on.
What do you call two dead lawyers? A damn fine beginning!!
You don't reckon that harry reid will kill himself?
I'D BANG BRISTOL
She wouldn't bang you, keep dreaming.
No foul play suspected. What happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas baby!
I think there is much more to this story than what is known so far. These people sounded like they were the proverbial "shark" type personalities and as we all know, loopholes were made for those types. For them all to wind up dead in such a short span of time is indicative of hidden misdeeds, IMO.
Go here and read the whole story, it's incredible.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45614219/ns/business-us_business/
Thanks for the link Judas-1953669......just read it. CRAZY!!!! Here are the two parts that had me laughing out loud though;
At first glance, Murray doesn’t look much like the type of person who would arrive in Las Vegas only to get tangled up in and eventually help unravel a complex criminal conspiracy. At 65, she stares out at the world through thick glasses. She is legally blind. Her eyes never quite seem to focus on any one thing. On a recent Friday morning, she sits at her dining room table wearing a zip-up leopard-print sweatshirt and recounts how she helped to foil a group of lawyers and contractors running amok in Sin City. “They didn’t think there would be four old ladies who wouldn’t put up with their stuff,” says Murray. “They really pissed me off.”
Among her drab fellow attorneys, clerks and paralegals, Quon stood out. She had long dark hair, hazel eyes, and pale skin. She drove a red Lexus convertible. One of her best friends was a Las Vegas judge. At night they did Pilates together.
That's what I'm gonna call it from now on........PILATES!
Mass suicide, yep. Guess that coroner in Vegas is good. Inventive suicides, one right after the other...PILATES, yup. However, better watch out that the judge doesn't decide to commit suicide too.
Fascinating. That is the very lawyer that handled my very hot divorce case, only to assign it to another attorney unfamiliar with the case on the last day of its final conclusion, just a couple of years ago.
Well steve s-2699248, guess you can stop wishing her dead. That's a joke. No, but really.......
heard it was a light'n strike and got run over by a truck...dirty vegas...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMfGqRUyrWw&feature=related
Sorry to disappoint you IWon but the key players in this fascinating case are mostly well known GOP figures in North Las Vegas; Steve Ward, the GOP fund raiser pleaded guilty to rigging elections and Mike Montandon, ex-mayor of NLV. Ward acknowledged that he helped rigged the 2004 election that resulted in Bush winning by narrow margin. Even Hollywood can't make this stuff up.
It would've taken a little more than Nev. changing hands to have changed the outcome of the 2004 Pres. election. Now, Ohio would've been a different matter.
Sounds like a Hollywood story line. What a coincidence that all these people associated with the scandal are dying...hmm
Sounds more like the BOY'S with the crooked noses and funny fitting suits have been at work again.
Why do the cops call it "foul play" when somebody gets murdered? There's nothing remotely "playful" about it.
Cause it's like a foul ball....
"Cause it's like a foul ball...."
ZOOM! Right over your head...
Or a foul ball betwix the eyes !!!
Why do they call it fowl? Is there a chicken involved?
So long as they are killing themselves, it's all good. Save the taxpayers some money.
If you aren't familiar with this story it is the craziest thing you'll read. It reads like fiction. Both these people killed themselves and if they didn't they got what they had coming.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45614219/ns/business-us_business/
Good article, much more complete.
Indeed, thanks for that link
I highly suggest if you want to understand more about this (since they don't give you too much to go on in this article other than 4 suspiciously linked suicides) that you go read the article mike posted
Thanks for the link mike. It really does read like fiction.
Thanks for the link Mike.
I recognized the name 'Nancy Quon' in the article as when going to the link, I realized I had read the story you linked when it first released. In honesty - I can't say I'm upset at all the 'scammers' are gone - whether by their own hand or with help. Any others involved, should be tried and rot in he||.
The mafia is alive and well and living in Vegas.
The mafia of LV is also known as LVPD. How do you think these 4 just turned up dead? They were ready to spill the beans to FBI. LVPD have to make sure none of them will ever sing again.
waiting for the "dateline" episode
What do you call two dead lawyers?
(A good start)
With apologies to Wm. Shakespeare
Dead lawyers? That's a shame.
This is the PRIVATE sector and how it works and they want the private sector to run all the businesses (into the ground)
Yeah,
there is never any mysterious deaths when the government is involved. Nope never heard of one!!!
Yes please, the government makes us pay for their inefficiency, and voting agenda for paybacks, these people did their own sentencing.
20 on RED!
Two down, how many more lawyers are there?
Enough to sue the Taliban into submission.
I'll see your lawyer and raise you one.
Sounds like a good CSI Las Vegas story line.
That is THE most corrupt city I have ever lived in. If you did too, you'd know what I'm talking about. Another reminder why I left.
Obviously yoou've never been to Chicago, or any city in Louisana.
They have the most interesting elections in Chicago.
Mario you mean vote early vote OFTEN?
There you go, knockin' Chi! Just because it is one of the few jurisdictions which doesn't discriminate against the dead (oh, excuse me, the "vitality-impaired") when it comes to voting. Why, several of the men who served as governor of Illinois in my lifetime did NOT ever go to prison! (Now, whether or not they deserved to is a topic best left for another thread.)
Vote "To Infinity, and Beyond!"
Nothing newsworthy here, just Karma doing its thing...............................
Sounds like a Bad Movie !!
Sounds like a great TV movie to me.
It reminds me of the book/movie The Client. I wonder how many bodies will be found beneath the subdivision now that at least three have been found above?
Are the Clintons involved in this in anyway?
lol notapolitcalhack that was funny why has noone blamed bush yet?
Ok this sounds like a Bush, Cheney thing. Oh wait a minute Cheney couldn't have anything to do with this he's had a change of heart.
panhead
Where do you think his new heart came from? :)
Good question not, possible witnesses against them seem to have short lives.
Probably not the Clintons this time. But I have to keep a close weather eye on Hilary. I have always been suspicious of her.
What's taking them so long? The TV show CSI (Las Vegas) would have had those autopsies done in an hour.
Also found by the same coroner, "there is no link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer." From the It Could Have Happened News. :)
wow
talk about corrupt to da bone
why would one take their life over money?
unless someone is trying to cover their ass and are picking off these goony idiots who say to be killing themselves
thanks for saving the tax payers money at least
Sounds like the MOB is not dead in Vegas after all.
Horray!...More dead crooks!!! There is a God!!!!
More than one. You get to choose.
What a coincidence!! [nudge, nudge, wink, wink...]
Sounds like a story from the old Vegas, mob days.
I think you'll see this case on an upcoming episode of CSI.