In 2007, Nevada Attorney General George Chanos initiated an investigation of Walters and his ties to LV City Hall. The investigation inspired the Wall Street Journal April 23, 2007 story: "After Big Wins in Las Vegas, An Investor's Luck Turns. Authorities Eye Deal With Billy Walters And a City Golf Course."
Shortly after the WSJ article, I received several visits from former Washoe County District Attorney Cal Dunlap, one of the private attorneys hired by Attorney General Chanos to investigate the Walters case.
According to the Feb. 17, 2006 Las Vegas SUN; "He (Dunlap) has battled some of the finest legal minds in Nevada and won, including the late Harry Claiborne, coincidentally a mentor of one Oscar Goodman."
I supplied all my published stories to Dunlap. He told me that A.G. Chanos had a very solid case, and Jones, McDonald, and Goodman might be in big trouble along with several city staff members based on the A.G.'s findings.
George Chanos left office in January 2008. His successor Catherine Cortez Masto (left) dropped the Walters case immediately after being sworn in as Nevada Attorney General, and forfeited the $250,000 in legal fees.
This story with its obscene profits, cronyism, lack of prosecution, "beautiful" people, and void of news coverage is par for the course in the new Las Vegas.
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Steve Miller, is a former Las Vegas City Councilman. In 1991, the readers of the Las Vegas Review Journal voted him the “Most Effective Public Official” in Southern Nevada. Miller writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and political corruption for Rick Porrello’s AmericanMafia.com.
