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Racketeer expected to be incarcerated for parole violations

Rick Rizzolo be sent to the Big House in Roma Hills, or to the Slammer in North Las Vegas?



LAS VEGAS - On March 29, 2011, Federal Judge Philip Pro is scheduled to hear arguments from United States Attorney Daniel Bogden and Federal Parole Officer Eric Christiansen asking that Rick Rizzolo be sent back to prison for three months and his parole extended for three years for repeatedly violating his conditions of supervised release.

This is supposed to shock the former Crazy Horse Too strip club owner into paying over $27 million in court ordered debts. In 2006, Rizzolo plead guilty to tax evasion, and his corporation plead guilty to racketeering resulting in him receiving an abbreviated one year federal prison sentence in exchange for his agreement to pay debts including his back taxes, penalties, and interest, and to pay beating victim Kirk Henry $9 million dollars in restitution. The government kept its side of the deal and released Rizzolo from prison on April 4, 2008 with three years of supervised release that's about to expire April 3, 2011. Now on the eve of gaining his freedom, Rizzolo has totally welched on his side of the deal by hiding his fortune off shore, and the government may be about to drop the gavel in order to show sincerity in trying to force him to pay his bills. More...

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Steve Miller——

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.

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