Police: Lawyer tied to murder
Man, ex-wife also suspected of thefts
A Las Vegas lawyer faces charges after prosecutors say he acted as an accessory to murder and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients.
William Gamage, 51, faces three counts of theft and one count of conspiracy to commit theft. He was arrested Monday.
His ex-wife, lawyer Amy Gamage, faces the same charges, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest.
A judge on Thursday released William Gamage on electronic monitoring, but Clark County Detention Center records showed that he remained in custody as of Thursday evening.
In May, Gamage was suspended after the State Bar of Nevada said he “misappropriated or mishandled thousands of dollars of client or third-party funds entrusted to him,” records show.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Jay P. Raman said William Gamage stole
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In a resignation letter, Pruitt thanked Trump for appointing him and indicated that media reports played a role in his decision to step down.
‘Unrelenting attacks’
“Truly, your confidence in me has blessed me personally and enabled me to advance your agenda beyond what anyone anticipated at the beginning of your Administration,” Pruitt wrote. “However, the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us.”
Just last week Pruitt was eating at a teahouse in Washington when a teacher cradling a toddler in her arms confronted him about his skepticism on climate change. Kristin Mink later posted video of the episode on social media, which went viral.
Higher-profile critics of Pruitt’s tenure at the federal agency charged with protecting the environment celebrated his departure.
“It’s about time,” tweeted former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has made climate change a signature issue. “He will go down in the history books as the worst EPA administrator we’ve ever had.”
“Took you too long. Still a very long way to go fully #Draintheswamp,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Twitter.
But climate change skeptic Marc Morano, a former Republican political aide who runs the website Climatedepot.com, said in a statement that “Pruitt will go down as the best EPA chief in history.” He noted that he was “the key man urging Trump to get out of the UN Paris climate pact” and roll back clean air regulations introduced under President Barack Obama.
Other Trump Cabinet members have departed under pressure for ethical lapses. Trump’s first Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Price, and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin left their posts after front-page stories about their high-ticket travel on the taxpayer dime.
Backed by energy industry
But Pruitt survived an avalanche of such stories, partly because the energy industry and conservative thought leaders saw him as a crusader curbing over-regulation within the agency, even if they privately bemoaned his bad judgment.
“On behalf of CEI, we thank Scott Pruitt for his outstanding service as
EPA administrator, and we regret that personal troubles got in the way,” Myron Ebell of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute lamented in a statement.
“Pruitt was the media target like no other because he has dared to actually reverse the green agenda in D.C.,” Morano charged. He believes the press put Pruitt under a microscope “because his EPA reform agenda is their biggest threat.”
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez would have