A Stern Glance

“The State of the Banking Industry”
Bruce Hendricks, President-Bank of Nevada
Friday, November 21, 2008 at McCormick & Schmick’s 
335 Hughes Center Drive
11:30 AM Check-in, Speaker & Lunch 12 PM Cost: $35

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A one time dot-com billionaire from Las Vegas has been sentenced to nine years in prison for defrauding investors in his software company in 2001.
Prosecutors had sought a much longer sentence for Charles “Junior” Johnson, founder and CEO of the now-defunct PurchasePro.
Johnson was the ringleader of a scheme to falsely inflate [...]

Allegiant Travel 10Q
Ameristar Third Quarter Results
Boyd Gaming 10Q
Community Bancorp 10Q
Monarch Casino 10Q
Vestin Realty Mortgage I Third Quarter Results
Vestin Realty Mortgage II Third Quarter Results
Western Alliance Bancorp 10Q

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTA - News) reported on November 10, 2008 a net loss for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 of approximately $6.4 million, or ($0.93) per share, on revenues of $0.4 million, compared with net income of $105,000 or $0.02 per share on [...]

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vestin Realty Mortgage II, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTB - News) reported on November 10, 2008, a net loss for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 of approximately $40.1 million, or ($2.72) per share, on revenues of $3.7 million, compared with net income of approximately $1.5 million or $0.10 per share on revenues of [...]