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Prison phone call industry Obama: Deficits falling at What was behind will fight new FCC rules fastest rate since WWII. Venezuela’s deadly oil lowering rates for inmates Is that really true? refinery explosion? PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 10 Volume 15, Issue 28 September 18-24, 2013 Ward 5 Chamber of Commerce Member Dean: From accusations to freedomtomoreproblems By Las Vegas Tribune Staff As always, the newspaper gave telephone call. Back in 2005, Dean abandoned Tim Dean — a Las Vegas bail Dean the same opportunity as any- The female employee — who his business partner in El Salvador bondsman who spent several one else to tell his side of the story claimed to be a “big-mouthed Cu- when he went to arrest a predator months in jail when he was accused and published it on the front page. ban” — treated the reporter calling that had jumped bail with them and of conspiring to kill his business Now the Las Vegas Tribune has to some of her guff by saying that escaped to his native El Salvador. partner and then later wanted to learned that something is not going she is Cuban and knows “how to His then-partner told the newspa- become Sheriff of Clark County — quite right at that bail bond office break heads in a flash” — but was pers at his arrival back in the United may, once again, be up to no good. located on an obscure street in too afraid to give her real name. States that Dean did not move a fin- While he was at the Clark downtown Las Vegas. The reporter learned that while ger to free him and bring him back County Detention Center on But when we tried to contact all this telephone drama was tak- to the country. charges that he wanted to kill his Dean to give him the same oppor- ing place, Dean was sitting in the Las Vegas Tribune has learned business partner, and had not been tunity this time that we gave him office trying to learn “step by step” from an unreliable source that able to post bail, Dean called the seven years ago, when he was in the what was going on and suggested “something is going on at Dean’s Las Vegas Tribune several times county jail, he hid behind a big- to the “big-mouthed Cuban” to end place that does not sound right,” but and wanted to give his side of the mouthed female employee and the conversation by signaling with it was not at all clear what that story. never returned the newspaper’s Tim Dean his hand to cut off the call. might be. Dean’s bail bond company seems to have several “new cli- ents,” but it is not clear where they are coming from and how they Harris no longer a pimp picked his bail bond company out of all the companies listed on the Clark County Detention Center wall. — he is now a molester The source also mentioned that Dean and his staff may be pushing By Las Vegas Tribune Staff what was really a simple drug over- Clark County District Attorney. some of those “new clients” to re- If memory serves people right dose, as ruled by police investiga- Both Tabish and Murphy were sub- tain an attorney that is close to him; regarding the so-called “trial of the tors when Binion’s body was found sequently found not guilty after and if that is true, he may be put- year” of Sandra Murphy and Rich- in the living room of the home he appealing the jury verdict. ting the attorney in serious trouble ard Tabish for the overdose-murder shared with his long time live-in There was no record ever found with the State Bar because that is of casino mogul Ted Binion, the girlfriend, Sandra Murphy. on Metro’s adult entertainment li- not acceptable by the Bar under its prosecutor in the case, David Roger, At that time, the Las Vegas Tri- censes or in Metro’s work card sec- rules and regulations. went all out to make Sandy Murphy bune was the only newspaper in Las tion that Sandra Murphy was ever The Cuban “big-mouth” that into a stripper, at all costs. Vegas that believed in the inno- employed as a stripper in any of the answered the telephone when the It was convenient and important cence of the pair accused and found local adult clubs, but it was impor- newspaper tried to talk to Tim Dean for Roger to make Murphy appear guilty of Binion’s murder. That tant for Roger’s political career and may be jeopardizing his bail busi- to be a gold-digging stripper in or- guilty verdict opened the path for ambitions to make it appear she ness by not letting Dean know that der to win the case against her, for Ammar Harris the prosecutor to become the next was. the Las Vegas Tribune wanted to Now the story is reversed in the speak with him. trial of Ammar Harris, the alleged This newspaper has always been Doug Gillespie’s “cop tax” pimp that caused a tragic accident on Dean’s side, but that was when on the Las Vegas Strip when he shot he was accessible to tell his side of at another alleged pimp on the cor- the history behind the story, and to encounters another delay ner of Las Vegas Boulevard and have his story treated fairly by of- By Alexandra Cohen these cuts were. Flamingo Road and a taxi driver fering up the truth. Now, we don’t De Oro Media Group Commissioner Chairman Steve and passenger were killed as the know what to think. But we’re still and Natasha Minsky (See Cop Tax, Page 6) (See Harris, Page 5) open to his side of the story. Las Vegas Tribune It was business as usual Tues- day at the county commissioners meeting where Sheriff Doug Gillespie and the county commis- sioners were ready to take a vote on the “more cops” tax item until county commissioner Susan Brager spoke. In what appeared to be a com- bined effort to find another “legit” excuse to delay the vote one more time, Commissioner Brager dropped the ball with what ap- peared to be a compromise, giving Commissioner Steve Sisolak the sheriff more money, but with we have to. I think there is an op- taxpayers coming out with less. tion on the table that would prevent But whatever money the sheriff us from doing that.” gets is way more than what he de- Commissioner Brager said she serves because the sheriff has not would never support the sheriff’s shown any intention to cut down on .15-cent sales tax increase. the present budget. It’s a proposal, And Commissioner Steve however, that would have the sher- Sisolak said he won’t support any iff and taxpayers meeting halfway, tax hike to pay for more cops. suggesting Las Vegas police trim The sheriff is asking for a .15- their budget, but still leaving tax- cent increase. Commissioner Susan payers with more to pay. Brager proposed a .075-cent tax Sheriff Gillespie said the police hike Tuesday. She says that is department has already had to make enough to get Metro money. too many cuts. “When you start The sheriff told the commission- In what some were calling Mayweather’s toughest test in many years, he authored a clinic against Saul cutting more, you’re going to im- ers that his department “has already “Canelo” Alvarez as he rolled to a majority decision to unify junior middleweight world titles Saturday pact services more. But I don’t think made a substantial number of cuts night — on Mexican Independence Day weekend — at the sold-out MGM Grand Garden Arena, where throughout the organization,” but the all-time gate record of $20,003,150 was set by the 16,746 in attendance. (Story and photos on Page 15) did not tell the board what or where ANALYSIS The Dark and Ugly Side of Metro’s Two Faces By Natasha Minsky unarmed citizens, the numerous discrimination in the workplace head-kickings, the patrol car thrill Las Vegas Tribune cover-up murders, the planting and complaints, sexual tryst misconduct ride to the Grand Canyon, the con- The range of Metro’s despicable destroying of evidence, the DNA activity — on duty in the workplace doned and tolerated mental patient and illegal activity and incidents is mistakes, the prosecutorial miscon- (8th floor, old city hall), false po- dumping, the condoned and staggering. Fortunately, the Las duct, bribery, drug use and sales, lice reports, the forgotten and mis- complicit $42 million Police Radio Vegas Tribune has a memory to ri- drunk driving police vehicle dam- placed police reports and com- Fraud Scam coupled with the $26 val a high-tech flash drive and is age, the numerous battery domes- plaints, the unreported self-inflicted million Radio Replacement Scam, more than willing to share that tic violence cases, malfeasance, gunshot wounds of officers, unre- the $200,000 electric police car stored-up information with all. hostile work environment incidents, ported and reported video-taped purchase failure, the gratuitous ce- Sheriff Doug Gillespie From the police shootings of unlawful employee termination, citizen beatings and groin stomps, (See Analysis, Page 4) Page 2 / LAS VEGAS TRIBUNE / September 18-24, 2013 Prison phone call industry will fight new FCC rules lowering rates for inmates By Matt Sledge In the wake of the FCC’s deci- Huffington Post sion, Securus raised the fee it NEW YORK — The private eq- charges families to deposit money uity-backed prison phone call in- onto prisoners’ phone debit cards dustry is making plans to fight an over the phone from $7.95 to $9.95, FCC vote last month that will slash according to the Prison Policy Ini- long-distance rates for inmates.

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