The Nevada Gaming Management Board (NGCB) has a brand new member: George Assad, a former Las Vegas Municipal Court docket decide, native prosecutor, and personal observe lawyer.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, pictured above. He just lately made three appointments to panels that oversee gaming within the state. (Picture: Twitter)
Assad, 71, replaces member Philip Katsaros, who didn’t search reappointment. The highly effective three-member panel now has no vacancies.
Gov. Joe Lombardo, himself a former Clark County sheriff earlier than successful the governor’s race, introduced the appointment on Monday. Assad’s time period lasts for 4 years.
The Nevada Gaming Management Board is a crucial state company, and I’m assured that George will honorably execute the mission of the board,” Lombardo mentioned in an announcement. “George is an skilled regulator and decide, and I sit up for his service.”
Assad was as soon as a commissioner for the Nevada Transportation Authority. That physique regulates taxis, buses, limousines, and movers. Earlier in his profession, he was a prosecutor within the Clark County district lawyer’s workplace. He was a decide between 2002 and 2011.
Assad is a graduate of Emerson School in Massachusetts. He additionally graduated from the College of San Diego College of Regulation. Earlier than regulation college, Assad was a vendor and pit supervisor for casinos, the Nevada Impartial reported.
In 2011, Assad’s son, Anthony Carleo, was sentenced to 3 to 11 years in jail for armed theft and assault with a lethal weapon. He swiped $1.5 million price of on line casino chips from the Bellagio, the Impartial reported. He was known as the “Bellagio Bandit.”
NGCB Chair Appointment
Earlier this month, Lombardo appointed Kirk Hendrick because the NGCB chair. Hendrick is an lawyer and was previously accountable for the gaming division of the Nevada Lawyer Common’s workplace. He was additionally the chief authorized officer and govt vice chairman of the Final Combating Championship (UFC).
He replaces the interim chair, Brittnie Watkins, who stays on the NGCB. She turned interim chair after former chair J. Brin Gibson stepped down from the submit.
The NGCB regulates the industrial gaming sector within the state and was closely concerned in overseeing on line casino operations through the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the gradual reopening of the state’s gaming venues.
Total, it protects the steadiness of the gaming sector by way of investigations, licensing, and enforcement of state legal guidelines and rules. The NGCB additionally collects gaming taxes and charges. The board moreover implements state coverage and legal guidelines and makes suggestions to the five-member Nevada Gaming Fee (NGC).
NGC Appointment
Lombardo just lately appointed Brian Krolicki to the NGC. He’s a former state treasurer and lieutenant governor in Nevada. He takes the place of Ben Kieckhefer on the five-member fee. Kieckhefer is now Lombardo’s chief of workers on the governor’s workplace.
The NGC is Nevada’s ultimate authority on approving, proscribing, suspending, or revoking gaming licenses.
