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LAS VEGAS (AP) - A prominent Las Vegas-based developer has admitted to illegally funneling a total of $37,000 in campaign contributions to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and indicted former congressional candidate Dario Herrera during the 2002 election cycle, the Federal Election Commission said Thursday. Reid and Herrera, both Democrats, were not aware of the campaign contribution scheme at the time, the FEC said in an announcement of an agreement settling a complaint against Las Vegas real estate mogul James Rhodes and his Nevada-based companies, Rhodes Design and Development Corporation, Bravo Inc. and Rhodes Ranch General Partnership. Two Rhodes employees...

<p>FBI agents leave Cheetah's in Las Vegas after the raid Wednesday.</p> <p>LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Dozens of FBI agents conducted raids in two states as part of a public corruption probe seeking information about strip club owners and their possible involvement with elected officials.</p>

WASHINGTON –– A Nevada Democrat inspired to run for Congress by the shipping of nuclear waste to his state criticized the Bush administration and House Republicans Saturday for failing to represent ordinary Americans. "The Bush-Cheney environmental record is one of repeated broken promises," Dario Herrera said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. "It's time for a change in Washington." "Here in Las Vegas, we know a thing or two about gambling," he said. "We know that Social Security should never be put on the Wall Street roulette wheel." Excerpt see link for more