{"id":7572,"date":"2014-06-27T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/27\/limo-ceo-aides-to-plead-guilty-in-las-vegas-racketeering-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2014-06-27T18:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:30:24","slug":"limo-ceo-aides-to-plead-guilty-in-las-vegas-racketeering-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/27\/limo-ceo-aides-to-plead-guilty-in-las-vegas-racketeering-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Limo CEO, aides to plead guilty in Las Vegas racketeering conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i62.tinypic.com\/250s40i.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 185px\">Limousine company operator Charles Horky and two top aides have agreed to plead guilty in a multimillion-dollar racketeering conspiracy involving prostitution, drug trafficking and fraud, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\tBy JEFF GERMAN<br \/>\n\tLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL<br \/>\n\tLimousine company operator Charles Horky and two top aides have agreed to plead guilty in a multimillion-dollar racketeering conspiracy involving prostitution, drug trafficking and fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cMr. Horky has accepted responsibility for actions involving some financial activity at the company and is ready assume the consequences,\u201d his defense attorney David Chesnoff said Wednesday. \u201cHe apologizes to those he disappointed, and we\u2019re hopeful that the court accepts the negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tHorky, 53, the CEO of CLS Nevada, a limousine company that operated on the Strip for two decades, and eight others were charged in a federal racketeering indictment unsealed in December 2012. Additional defendants, including some of Horky\u2019s limousine drivers, were charged with trafficking in cocaine, methamphetamine and Ecstasy in four separate indictments.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe four-year criminal conspiracy was uncovered by the FBI with the help of months of court-approved wiretaps that, among other things, provided an explicit look inside a prostitution ring authorities said Horky ran.<\/p>\n<p>\tHorky is to plead guilty in Las Vegas before U.S. District Judge Robert C. Jones on Sept. 25, according to the electronic court docket.<\/p>\n<p>\tKimberly Flores, 43, the manager of CLS, and Archie Granata, 70, a financial adviser for the company, are to enter guilty pleas before Jones on July 7, the court record shows.<\/p>\n<p>\tDetails of the deals the three defendants have struck with federal prosecutors have not been publicly released. The plea agreements will be filed after Jones accepts their guilty pleas in court.<\/p>\n<p>\tOther defendants also are working on plea deals.<\/p>\n<p>\tThose indicted with Horky in the racketeering case included limousine drivers James Reda, 39, Clarence Adams, 39, Mikhail Maleev, 49, and Dawit Moszagi, 48. Two company associates accused of being drug suppliers, Solomon Zemedhun, 40, and Olive Toli, 49, also were charged.<\/p>\n<p>\tOne key target of the investigation, drug dealer Hani Dadis, killed himself weeks before the federal indictments were returned.<\/p>\n<p>\tDadis, 51, of Las Vegas, was accused in FBI affidavits of being the main supplier of the club drug Ecstasy, or MDMA, to limousine drivers and their high-rolling clients.<\/p>\n<p>\tOn Sept. 12, 2012, as pressure from FBI agents in the investigation mounted, Dadis put a gun to his head and shot himself to death in a hotel room at the South Point resort on the south Strip, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>\tHis death, ruled a suicide by Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy, came a week after agents raided an apartment Dadis had rented to stash the Ecstasy he was accused of distributing.<\/p>\n<p>\tHorky\u2019s company listed itself as a 24-hour chauffeur-driven service that had contracts with a dozen Strip resorts.<\/p>\n<p>\tAt the time of the indictment in 2012, a top local FBI agent said the lucrative scheme \u201cnegatively impacted the citizens, safety, and image of Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tThe indictment charged the nine defendants with conspiring to participate in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activities, including wire fraud, access device fraud, bank fraud and distribution of controlled substances. It also charged them with using interstate commerce to promote, facilitate, and distribute the proceeds of prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe broad range of criminal activities was alleged to have taken place from September 2008 through November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\tDrivers sold cocaine and methamphetamine and promoted prostitution from their limousines, the indictment alleged.<\/p>\n<p>\tHorky was accused of directing the criminal activities and requiring drivers to pay him a cut of the illicit money they were receiving.<\/p>\n<p>\tAmong the unlawful activities carried out was a scheme to defraud American Express and American Express card holders of more than $2.8 million through unauthorized charges, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>\tHorky led a $2.4 million check-kiting scheme that involved drawing checks on the company\u2019s payroll account knowing that the account did not contain sufficient funds, the indictment alleged.<\/p>\n<p>\tSince his indictment, Horky has been running the limousine service under the watchful eye of a court-appointed monitor, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Trustee Tim Cory.<\/p>\n<p>\tOn Wednesday, Cory said a scaled-back version of the company is still operating.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limousine company operator Charles Horky and two top aides have agreed to plead guilty in a multimillion-dollar racketeering conspiracy involving prostitution, drug trafficking and fraud, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned. 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