With the above characteristics, Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) had a very successful experience to initial, plan, and implement a project for our U. S. Senator Harry Reid. It was the Event and Dinner Party for A Special Tribute to U. S. Senator Honorable Harry Reid on Friday, the Twentifourth of August, 2001 at Asia Palace Chinese Restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The recent interest in having a project initialted through WBTI has been concerned by several community leaders: (1) Mr. William Yuen and Ms. Teresa Woo invited Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei to a lunch to discuss their participation in Intercity Business Council of Nevada. The party was held at the Chinese Cuisine Cathy House on December 30, 2004 in Las Vegas. (2) Mr. Raymond Lam invited Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei to dinner at BBQ King Restaurant in Las Vegas. Mr. Roget Y. Rong was an accompany guest. The party was held on December 28, 2004 to discuss a world intercity convention on May 2005.

It's our pleasure to post some of our visitors' response to the "Cartoons & Art" section of the Washinton Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) website:

From: Miss Yi Li [asiancare@fibertel.com]
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:19:33 -0800

Dear Dr. Lei,

Thank you very much for your email. I like your cartoon section,
especially
those deep-meaning sentences.

Kindly remember me to your wife!

Best regards,

Yi Li

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Reference

*1. Li, Yi. 'Yi Li --- Marketing Manager of FiberTel, Inc., "A search of information about Yi Li on Google.com," (December 26, 2004), U. S. A.: Google.com.

Friday, December 24, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

EDITORIAL: 'I'll be home for Christmas ... '
' ... You can count on me'

By tomorrow morning, the bustling streets and malls will have fallen strangely quiet. In many a home the living room will rest ankle-deep in an effluvia of ribbons and paper and bows, while in the background someone will have left the TV running -- Alastair Sim throws open his window on a bright and shining world for the 50th time, and asks the lad in the street what day this is.

It's Christmas morning, sir. And yes, he certainly does know the butcher shop on "the next street but one" with the big, fat turkey still hanging in the window -- "the one as big as me."

By day's end, much of the predictable hand-wringing over the commercialization of the holiday will have faded away, as in many homes the most expensive new Christmas toys will lie broken or abandoned in some forgotten corner, while toddlers play themselves to happy exhaustion in that yet-to-be-unseated, all-time-champion source of Christmas delight ... the empty cardboard box.

A fancy high-tech toy has no option but to remain a fancy high-tech toy, you see, while a cardboard box can be a frontier fort, a hot rod with stick shift, a lonely aircraft dangerously icing up as it makes the perilous climb over the Andes ...

Young parents will fret the holiday didn't turn out quite as planned. That's when a grandparent is allowed to place a sympathetic hand on the shoulder, retelling the Christmas when granddad hunted high and low for just the right red Texaco fire truck, only to watch the child in question spend the day exuberantly constructing a full Javanese gavelan out of old pots and pans systematically looted from the kitchen cupboard.

The bleatings about "commercialization" seem to have faded a bit of late. (Perhaps it's finally sunk into the public consciousness that our mutual funds stay up only so long as the merchants do some business.) Since Christians didn't exactly invent the date -- merely superimposing their own celebration onto a Winter Solstice week of feasting and merriment observed by the Romans and the pagan tribes of a thousand years -- it does seem less than generous to protest whatever traditions others may cherish at this time of year.

Even if that does include claymation Santas sledding across the snow on highly unlikely rotary-blade razors.

In fact, the ancient and modern holidays aren't such a bad fit: The superstitious ancients lighted bonfires and hauled the sacred mistletoe and evergreens indoors out of fear that ghosts of the dead might walk abroad on the longest and darkest night of the year. Yet still they looked on the bright side, celebrating the fact that the lengthening of each day from this point promised the vital return of spring.

Modern Christians, too, celebrate on this date the arrival of a new hope to lead mankind from the darkness.

Here is a day for friends and family, for again celebrating our freedoms and the bounty they create. Only by allowing men and women to profit from the fruits of their labors can a society be truly moral and just. And only by thus allowing each soul to remain a free agent is true, voluntary kindness and charity made possible.

Here is a day to thank our lucky stars we live in a land where economic freedom has created so much affordable bounty that -- in the vast majority of American homes this day -- we find ourselves surrounded, in the dead of winter, far from any fertile field, with more delicious plenty than is humanly possible to consume.

There's a tendency to think today's crises must be more complicated and dispiriting than those of days gone by. In fact, today's doubt and confusion pales when we consider how the future hung in the balance for a generation of cold and lonely sailors and G.I.s and Marines, stretched thin on freedom's line, in the desperate Christmas of 1943.

Listen to the radio. When were those songs written? Isn't it interesting, how many come down to us from those desperate days? Even today, have we no moment of gratitude to spare for the young men and women who stand a frozen vigil on some lonely shore this Christmas day, wishing they, too, could be home sipping cider by the fire?

It was for such as they that Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane wrote, in the far darker days of 1943:

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light. From now on, our troubles will be out of sight.

"Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. From now on, our troubles will be miles away. ...

"Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow. Hang a shining star upon the highest bough ... and have yourself a merry little Christmas, now."

It was for such as they that Kim Gannon and Walter Kent wrote, in 1943:

"I'll be home for Christmas, you can plan on me. Please have snow and mistletoe, and presents on the tree.

"Christmas eve will find me, where the lovelight gleams. I'll be home for Christmas ... if only in my dreams."

Merry Christmas to all. May your days be cheery and bright. And may all your Christmases ... be white.

(Irving Berlin: 1942).

A version of the above first appeared on these pages on Christmas 1998.

During last week, Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei attended the following event and dinner parties: (1)On December 12, Mr. and Mrs. William Tong invited Ms. Kathie Ambrosio, Dr. Tony Lei, and Mrs. Judy Lei to lunch at the Chow's Cuisine in Las Vegas. Kathie Ambrosio is a Regional Representative of U. S. Senator John Ensign. (2)Mr. Raymond Lam invited Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei to the Event and Dinner Party held by him for Chinese American Alliance Association of Las Vegas at the BBQ King Reataurant in Las Vegas on December 15, 2004. Raymond is the President of the Association. (3)Attorney Benson Lee invited Dr. and Mrs Lei to the Event and Dinner party held by the Asian American Group at Harbor Palace Restaurant in Las Vegas. Benson was a Host of the dinner party. The Keynote Speak was Clark County Commissioner Lynette McDonald. (4)Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei was invited by Terra West Management for a Merry Christmas Dinner Party at the Tenaya Greek Restaurant in Las Vegas on December 17, 2004. The other two Directors of South Shores Comminity Association Mr. Robert Beveridge and Mr. Gary Lein with their wives also participate the party. (5) Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei was invited by Golden Nugget Casino and Hotel for a Merry Christmas Dinner Party in Las Vegas on December 18, 2004. (6) Dr. Tony and Mrs. Tony Lei were invited by Miss Yin Yan to attend the Event and Party held by Chinese Benevolent Association of Las Vegas and Las Vegas Chinese Council (Association) at the Grand Ball Room of Plaza Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas on December 18, 2004. Yin is one of the Assistant President of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC)*2. (7)Mr. and Mrs. William Tong invited Kathie Ambrosio, Dr. Tony Lei, and Mrs. Judy Lei for a Merry Christmas Dinner Party at the Steak House of Palace Station Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas on Decmber 19, 2004. William is President of Chinese American Center of Nevada.

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References

*1. PAI is the initial of Public Administration Institution of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI).
*2. Moss, Cheryl; Gronauer, Bobby; and Chang, Tiffany. 'Yin Yan appoints Assistant President of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission of WBTI,' "A serach about Miss Yin Yan on Google.com," (December 21, 2004), U. S. A.: Google.com.

The Asian American Group held an Event and Dinner Party on Wednesday, December 15, 2004
at 7:00 p. m. - 9:30 p. m. at the Harbor Palace Restaurant in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The KEYNOTE SPEAKER was Lynette Boggs McDonald, Clark County Commissioner of Nevada. Guests of Honor (Speakers) invited were: 1.Justice Michael Douglas Justice of Supreme Court. 2. Tom Collins County Commissioner (Elect).

Commissioner Lynette McDonald spoke for a big plan of the Dragon City Hotel & Resort and the Dragon City Tower. The large constructions will be built by Andrew Lai and Susan Keygiell near China Town, Las Vegas

Winners of 2004 Nevada election invited were: (1)Judge Karen Benett Harron, (2)Judge Bill Voy, (3)Judge Ken Cory, (4)Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, (5)Dr. Joe Heck, and (6)Judge (elect) Sandra Pomrenze.

SPECIAL GUESTS invited were: (1)Judge Michael Cherry; (2)Judge Dianne Steel; (3)Mr. Thom Reilly, Clark County Manager; (4)Justice Stephen George; (5)Mr. Bobby Gronauer, Constable of Las Vegas; (6)Elizabeth Quillan, Dep. AG; (7)Mr. Steven Goode - Manager, Clark County Health Dept.; and (8) District Judge Jackie Glass.

Hosts were: (1)David Amesburry - General Counsel, CANDO; (2)Raj Chanderraj - MD Founder, Friends Of India; (3)Benson Lee - President, Chinese American Citizen
Alliance; (4)Steven Kwon - Past President & Founder, Asian American Chamber Of Commerce;
(5)Dollly DeLeon - Editor In Chief, US Asian Chronicle; (6)R D Prabhu - MD Chair CANDO;
and (7)Rita Vaswani - Chair India-Las Vegas Tourism Council.

Important officials and organizational leaders being honored were: Mr. Steve Wolfson, Las Vegas Councilman; Ms. Nadia Jurani, Commissioner of Nevada Equal Rights Commission; Ms. President of Las Vegas Japanese Association; Dr. Tony Lei, President of Washington Business and Technology Institute; Ms. Nancy Diaz and Miss Liane Lee, Regional Representatives of U. S. Senator Harry Reid; Miss Jasmine Guo, President of Las Vegas Taiwanese Benevolence Association; among others.

The Chinese people were the largest participanting group to attend the Event and Dinner Party including many organizational leaders and newspapers executives: Dr. and Mrs. Tony Lei, Attorney Benson Lee, Miss Liane Lee, Ms. Sue Phelps, Mr. Xiaosheng Huang, Ms. Jasmine Guo, Dr. David Lee, Miss Yi Li, Miss Yin Yan, Mr. Edward Lu, Miss Judi Rock, Mr. Anthony Lu, Mr. Ching Chang, Ms. Mindy Gao, Miss Audrey Cheng, Ms. Jianhong Yang, Mr. Robert Song, Miss Sophie Ideker, Mr. David Lai, Miss Iris Zhang, among others.

CHAIR OF THE EVENING was Mr. Andrew Lai (Wynn Investments).

GUESTS invited were about 225. ATTIRE for the party was Buisness. RSVP was scheduled as in the following: People called Mr. Mike Vaswani at 242-9004 before 12.00 noon, Monday, December 13, 2004. Some people sent email to mikevaswani@aol.com for reservation also.

During the event and party, a small choir from Valley View high school was brought by Commissioner Lynette McDonald. They presented several songs for season greetings. Their presentation was applauded. Donations from the tables were collected at about $500.00 for them.

Friday, December 17, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

Report gives merit to Nevada's plan
Travel group says more Chinese will visit U.S.
By CHRIS JONES
GAMING WIRE

Nevada leaders have for years touted China's potential to become a lucrative feeder market for the state's tourism and convention industries. This week, those claims were further validated by one of the nation's most-respected travel advocacy groups.

The Washington-based Travel Industry Association of America released a nearly 100-page report profiling the economic impact of China and three other emerging travel markets -- India, Russia and Poland. While each of the nations examined still has travel-related challenges, TIA is confident their residents will soon play a larger role in supporting the United States' international tourism industry.

"The four country markets chosen ... all have rapidly growing economies. A growing economy is one of the strongest indicators of tourism growth," said the report, which was compiled using data supplied by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Not surprisingly, the world's most populous nation headed TIA's list. This year, China is expected to send 171,000 visitors to the United States, an increase of 8.7 percent from last year but down more than 30 percent from 2000's peak of nearly 250,000.

Despite the past four years' downturn -- which TIA said resulted from China's shift from business to leisure travel, which often requires a difficult-to-obtain tourist visa -- efforts are under way to bolster visitor exchanges between the United States and China. Recent progress includes a July deal to add more direct flights, and this month's pledge to soon grant the United States Approved Destination Status, which would ease Chinese groups' ability to travel here.

Bruce Bommarito, a TIA board member, has for the past few years spearheaded Nevada's efforts to reach out to China in his role as executive director of the Nevada Commission on Tourism. He said Thursday he's pleased others are catching on to something those here have long understood.

"When we first started talking about China ... it caused a lot of raised eyebrows," Bommarito said. "TIA's research shows that what we are doing makes sense."

And because TIA is well-known on Capitol Hill, Bommarito is optimistic its positive appraisal could speed up efforts to ease today's restrictions on Sino-American travel.

TIA cited Nevada's license to promote travel in China, adding, "This is the type of strategy that can help U.S. travel professionals to take advantage of the growing Chinese travel market." The state opened an office in Beijing in June and is working on a Web site for prospective Chinese visitors, among other efforts.

Terry Jicinsky, senior vice president of marketing for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, said his organization won't step up its efforts to market in China until its citizens can more easily obtain visas to travel to the United States.

"We'll be more aggressive, and dedicate more financial resources toward China, at the time" the visa issue is resolved, he said. For now, the convention authority is content to follow the state's lead in the People's Republic.

With 1.05 billion residents and a developing economy, India has also become a key player in the global travel industry. A highly educated work force has created global demand for its technical workers, a trend reflected in double-digit increases in outbound travel from India in 2000 and 2002, TIA said.

The average visitor from India spent more than $2,300 per party per trip in 2002, the most recent spending information available. Overall, Indian travelers spent nearly $1.1 billion in the United States that year.

In 2004, Indian arrivals to the United States are expected to approach 279,000, making it one of the first countries to recover to pre-Sept. 11, 2001, levels. TIA expects those arrivals will grow by 8 percent over the next two years.

However, Nevada leaders are in the initial stages of studying India's viability as an inbound travel market for the state.

"They don't have the propensity to (gamble) that Asians do; that does make them a little less attractive to us," Bommarito said.

Despite TIA's positive appraisal, the commission is cool to the idea that many Russian or Polish tourists will soon visit here due to expanded marketing efforts from Nevada.

"Russia scares us because of the volatility of the people and the economy," Bommarito said. "There's a lot of crime in Russia ... and we're going to probably stay out of that one for a while." Poland is being monitored, but nations like Vietnam and Thailand offer greater short-term potential for the state's travel-dependent businesses, he added.

The convention authority also has no plans to focus on India, Russia or Poland. Until local hotel companies report significant business from those nations, Las Vegas will focus on areas where it has established foreign marketing programs.

"We continue to operate under the philosophy of fishing where the fish are," Jicinsky said, citing the United Kingdom, Japan and several other productive overseas markets.

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"Through the recommendation by our faculty members including District Judge Cheryl Moss and Las Vegas Constable Bobby Gronauer, Miss Yin Yan has been appointed Assistant President of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) on November 20, 2004," announced Dr. John Wang, Spokesman of WBTI, on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"It's terrific! I can't imagine that I could be recommeded by District Judge Cheryl Moss and Las Vegas Constabnle Bobby Gronauer as one of the Assistant President of Clark County District Attorney and Police Civil Commission. I'd like to devote myself to it with all my knowledge and effort beside my regular work. We're lucky to have such a team work with both scientific management and human relations to promote the quality of life of all our residents and visitors of Nevada through the effective communication and cooperation between the officials of the District Attorney and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the people of Nevada," said Yin Yan at the time when she was informed by WBTI about the appointment.

Yin Yan received an M.B.A. from University of Pheonix in 2002. She had a B.S. degree in Finance and Statistics from Hu Nan University, China in 1994. In 2000, she received a B.S. degree from Arizona State University. Yin is now the Vice President of America Taiyu International, LLC.

The following e-mail was prepared by Yin Yan to WBTI on November 23, 2004:

Dear Dr. Lei,

Tom Peters said that, "Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm." It's my honor to be named as one of the Assistant President of CCDAPCC. To have a great deal of enthusiam with my effort, knowledge, and experience will be my devotion to this significant organization for our community in Southern Nevada. I'm enthusiastic to work with such a team of professionals with special status and expertise
for community service and humane spirit under the leadership of our Chairmen David Roger and Bill Young.

In the near future, I will concentrate my effort to recruit some number of the membership of this Commission.

Best regards,

Yin Yan
Vice President,
America Taiyu Investment, LLC.

The following e-mail was sent by Yin Yan to WBTI on November 24, 2004:

Tony,

Sorry that I couldn't get back to you earlier. Guess it's too late for
me to
write anything now. But I truly appreciated that you could offer me
such an
important position at this organization, and felt honorable be a member
of
this winning team. Please feel free to let me know if you need my help
in
the future events. I will be happy to work with you and your team to
serve
our community whenever needed.

Best Wishes,
Yin Yan

Enriching our community service and humane spirit process were made possible by these friends who joined and supported this Commission. CCDAPCC is really a chain of dedicated individuals who joined to research, serve, support and to give. We take great pride of our people, including our outstanding faculty and executives. We're sincere servers to improve the quality of life of all our Nevadans. Power in politics should have a direction that the power based on knowledge is the power of righteousness. It's our pleasure to pay a tribute to many high-ranking officials of Nevada who dedicate to the civic and community service aspects of our organization in an honorary or adjunct capacity. We wish that a pure fountain may prosper and enrich our splendid and golden country through the spirit that knowledge calls, ultimately, for a life of service.

It is our pleasure to post the following feature article:

083104-3257 PPAA18 *****8:17 a. m., Tuesday, August 31, 2004, Second Section
Cheryl Moss is the hit winner of visitor number at seventy six thousand six hundred and sixty sixth (#76,666th) of WBTI website [Now at #95,768th in the morning on December 6, 2004.]
By GSBPA of WBTI

--- Cheryl Moss wrote:
Dear Dr. Lei, How nice is it for me to be the great and lucky number of visitor on WBTI's website (http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti) at #76,666th! [Now at #95,768th in the morning on December 6, 2004.] .......

"Clark County District and Police Civil Commission (CCDAPCC) is the only practical organization formed since the establishment of the Pan Pacific and Asian American Forum (PPAAF) in September 28, 2001 by Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI). The Executive Director of PPAAF Bud Cranor appointed Brian Sandoval Honorary Chairman, David Roger and Bill Young Chairmen of CCDAPCC on January 2, 2003," Dr. John Wang, Spokesman of WBTI announced on January 3, 2003.

"We look forward a team work with both scientific management and human relations to promote the quality of life of all our residents and visitors of Nevada through the effective communication and cooperation between the officials of the District Attorney and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the people of Nevada," said Bud Cranor for the New Year Eve Party Conference to "Nevada Examiner" and Communitylink of "Las Vegas Review-Journal" website (http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti. Bud Cranor was Director of Las Vegas Office of Governor Kenny Guinn, and Executive Director of the PPAAF of WBTI. The Conference was held by WBTI at the Steak House of the Binion's Horseshoe Club on December 30, 2002 in Las Vegas. The Theme of the Mini Conference was: Promoting A Good Community Life Through Mutual Cooperation. Bud was the Chairman of the conference.

At the present time, the organization of the Commission is: Honorary Chairmen A. William "Bill" Maupin, former Chief Justice and now Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court; Brian Sandoval, Nevada State Attorney General; Stewart Bell, former Clark County District Attorney and now District Judge; Chairmen David Roger, Clark County District Attorney; and Bill Young, Sheriff of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD); Vice Chairmen Robert (Bobby G.) Gronauer, Constable of Las Vegas Township; and Herb Brown, Constable of North Las Vegas Township; Honorary President Lorraine Hunt, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada; President Dr. Tony T. Lei, President of WBTI; Vice President Kathy Augustine, State Controller of Nevada; Assistant President Yi Li, Marketing Manager of FiberTel Inc.; Assistant President Yin Yan, Vice President of America Taiyu Investment, LLC.; Secretary General Cheryl Moss, District Judge of Family Court; Senior Advisor Stewart Bell, District Judge; Founding Advisor Mike Davidson, Former Clark County Assistant District Attorney; Culture Advisor Sue Fawn Chung, Associate Professor of UNLV; Promoting Advisors Rennie Schreiber, Chief of Staff of the Office of Lt. Governor Lorraine Hunt; Chermaine Gord, Secretary of Chief Justice Bill Maupin; Judy Hetherington, Chief Staff of the L.V. Office of Controller Kathy Augustine; Kathy Karstedt, Secretary of Clark County District Attorney David Roger; Susan Sullivent, Secretary of Sheriff of LVMPD Bill Young; Media Advisor William Yuen, Vice President of "Next Weekly"; Financial Advisor Teresa Woo, Editor-in-Chief of "Next Weekly"; Coordinating Advisor Raymond Lam, President of Las Vegas Cantonese Association; Functional Advisor Patty Blakeman, Secretary for Mike Davidson; Entrepreneurship Advisor Oscar Jornacion, President and Publisher of "Nevada Examiner"; Writing Advisor Jerry Tao, Deputy District Attorney of Clark County; and Secretary Agnas Chan, President of United Business Source Inc.

"I'm a living example of the American Dream. Today, I'm privileged to serve the people of greater Las Vegas as a Deputy District Attorney, where I prosecute criminal cases ranging from murder and drug dealing to arson, sexual assault and robbery. Every day, I work to make our neightborhoods a little safer and more livable," wrote Jerry Tao on one his fliers.

"It's my great pleasure to be nominated by WBTI as its Honorary Chairman and Senior Advisor of CCDAPCC," said District Attorney Stewart Bell at the Dinner Party to "Nevada Examiner" and "Las Vegas Review-Journal". "The significance of the creed of a County deserves to encourage administrative professionals to emphasize the value of the truth, goodness, and beauty in order to maintain it as a place of the people, by the people, and for the people. It's my honor to join the Commission." The Dinner Party was held by WBTI to celebrate Bell as Honorary Chairman and Senior Advisor of CCDAPCC at the Steak House of Binion's Horseshoe Club on October 7, 2002.

The above list of leaders and officers of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) was announced and installed by Judge Mark Denton, District Judge of Nevada, at the Event and Dinner Party held by WBTI at the Steak House of Binion's Horseshoe Club on December 8, 2003 in Las Vegas.

"It's very impressive and elegant! I recognizes what John Keats said about 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever,' by beeing the vistor's number at #45,281 of the WBTI website. It is brought to you by the Communitylink of 'Las Vegas Review-Journal' and Reviewjournal.com," said Judge Valorie Vaga, District Judge of Nevada, on March 5, 2004 in Las Vegas.

"I'm glad to be an Advisor of Pan Pacific and Asian American Forum, where Governor Kenny Guinn is Chairman and Bud Cranor is Executive Director. We all endeavor to promote the quality of life of all our Nevadan residents and visitors," said Brian Sandoval on March 8, 2002 at the Event and Dinner Party held by the Asian American Community.

To encourage and promote the community service of associations in Nevada, Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) and Chinese American Academic Association of Nevada (CAAAN) and have remained to offer financial and human resorces to variety of organizations since the autumn of 1993. .......

Dr. Tony Lei has innovated and encouraged good idea for program and event to improve the quality of life of all our residents and visitors of Nevada. United we stand, not just for our Asian Community only but for all our people and nation as a whole. Asian Community has won recognition for contribution to Nevada by American Mainstream. The main reason for this recognition is the great and cooperative wisdom and effort that the Asian communities have continuously participated and offered to the mainstream society.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004
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Harvard professor to lecture
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Charles Ogletree Jr. (Photo. Please check it with LVRJ.)

Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree Jr. will present a free lecture at 4 p.m. Monday at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas.

Ogletree will present another lecture at noon Tuesday at the National Judicial College in Reno. He will discuss his book "All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education," as well as current events.

The events are part of the Nevada Lecture Series, which features nationally noted speakers who offer insight into timely and relevant topics.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004
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Princess-Marine love story ends
LV resident says cultural, religious differences ruined romance with Muslim beauty
By RICHARD LAKE
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Meriam Al-Khalifa and Jason Johnson, shown at the Aladdin's Desert Passage in June 2001, recently filed for divorce after five years of marriage.
Photo by Craig L. Moran.

Jason Johnson suspected that someday his personal life might once again capture the attention of the world, but he was surprised anyway Monday afternoon when he found himself talking about how it all went wrong.

"Oh my God," he said, shaking his head. "I knew it would get out sooner or later, but this was really fast."

Johnson's was the kind of love story usually told only in Disney movies. It was a tale of an American Marine so dazzled by the beauty of a young royal princess that he risked everything for her.

That "Romeo and Juliet"-like love affair, once dubbed "The Princess and the Marine" in a made-for-TV movie, has ended now, set against a backdrop of Las Vegas nightclubs, an international assassin and a spurned love that continues to endure, if you believe Johnson.

"It was what she wanted," he said simply of the couple's recent divorce filing.

Back in 1999, Johnson was a Marine stationed in Bahrain, an island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia. He'd been a Marine for 2 1/2 years and had hoped to make a career of it.

While in Bahrain, he met Meriam Al-Khalifa, the beautiful teenage princess related to the country's royal and ruling family. He was a Mormon, she a Muslim, but to them, the differences did not matter. They fell in love.

The relationship they formed was forbidden by her family, so Johnson worked out a scheme to spirit his young princess off to America when his tour ended. He disguised her in a flannel shirt and a New York Yankees ball cap, and he forged her military identification to get her to the United States.

The plan worked, and after a drawn-out fight with immigration authorities, the couple married at the Candlelight Wedding Chapel on the Strip. He was 23, she was 19.

Their story made worldwide headlines. In addition to the TV movie, the couple made the TV talk show rounds, including an appearance on "Oprah."

Johnson was demoted a rank for his misdeeds, and eventually was discharged from the Marines, with the special condition that he not be allowed to re-enlist, he said.

He and his new wife, whose name is spelled Maryam in official documents, got jobs, and they went about living their lives.

But, said Johnson, a valet parker on the Strip, things were never as rosy as the stories made them seem. There was constant tension with her family, he said, and there was even one time the FBI told him they'd intercepted a Syrian national who said he'd been paid $500,000 to assassinate her.

That incident, together with the couple's religious and cultural differences, further widened a gulf that Johnson said his bride's powerful family tried to widen time and time again.

"The royal family made me look really bad," he said.

No one answered the door at Al-Khalifa's apartment Monday afternoon, and she is not represented by an attorney in the divorce proceedings.

As the tension in the marriage mounted, Johnson said, his wife got sucked into the Las Vegas nightlife. He said she began partying with her friends and ignoring him. She became particularly interested in Arabic-themed nightclubs, and in the gay clubs that cluster around the Hard Rock Hotel on Paradise Road, he said. He noted they used to frequent those clubs as a couple and enjoyed the atmosphere.

"She's gone off the deep end," he said.

About a year ago, Johnson said, his wife left him.

"I had tried to work it out with her last year," he said. "But that's not what she wanted."

He resisted her urgings that they get a divorce, he said, but ultimately realized there was nothing he could do.

They filed for divorce jointly on Nov. 17, the day after their fifth wedding anniversary. The paperwork says they are "incompatible in marriage."

"Deep down inside, she knows that I loved her more than anything in the world," Johnson said. "I can say I enjoyed every minute I spent with her."

He is living in Summerlin now with his stepmother, who also is getting over a broken relationship.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004
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Princess-Marine love story ends
LV resident says cultural, religious differences ruined romance with Muslim beauty
By RICHARD LAKE
@ Copyright 2004, REVIEW-JOURNAL

Meriam Al-Khalifa and Jason Johnson, shown at the Aladdin's Desert Passage in June 2001, recently filed for divorce after five years of marriage.
Photo by Craig L. Moran.

Jason Johnson suspected that someday his personal life might once again capture the attention of the world, but he was surprised anyway Monday afternoon when he found himself talking about how it all went wrong.

"Oh my God," he said, shaking his head. "I knew it would get out sooner or later, but this was really fast."

Johnson's was the kind of love story usually told only in Disney movies. It was a tale of an American Marine so dazzled by the beauty of a young royal princess that he risked everything for her.

That "Romeo and Juliet"-like love affair, once dubbed "The Princess and the Marine" in a made-for-TV movie, has ended now, set against a backdrop of Las Vegas nightclubs, an international assassin and a spurned love that continues to endure, if you believe Johnson.

"It was what she wanted," he said simply of the couple's recent divorce filing.

Back in 1999, Johnson was a Marine stationed in Bahrain, an island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia. He'd been a Marine for 2 1/2 years and had hoped to make a career of it.

While in Bahrain, he met Meriam Al-Khalifa, the beautiful teenage princess related to the country's royal and ruling family. He was a Mormon, she a Muslim, but to them, the differences did not matter. They fell in love.

The relationship they formed was forbidden by her family, so Johnson worked out a scheme to spirit his young princess off to America when his tour ended. He disguised her in a flannel shirt and a New York Yankees ball cap, and he forged her military identification to get her to the United States.

The plan worked, and after a drawn-out fight with immigration authorities, the couple married at the Candlelight Wedding Chapel on the Strip. He was 23, she was 19.

Their story made worldwide headlines. In addition to the TV movie, the couple made the TV talk show rounds, including an appearance on "Oprah."

Johnson was demoted a rank for his misdeeds, and eventually was discharged from the Marines, with the special condition that he not be allowed to re-enlist, he said.

He and his new wife, whose name is spelled Maryam in official documents, got jobs, and they went about living their lives.

But, said Johnson, a valet parker on the Strip, things were never as rosy as the stories made them seem. There was constant tension with her family, he said, and there was even one time the FBI told him they'd intercepted a Syrian national who said he'd been paid $500,000 to assassinate her.

That incident, together with the couple's religious and cultural differences, further widened a gulf that Johnson said his bride's powerful family tried to widen time and time again.

"The royal family made me look really bad," he said.

No one answered the door at Al-Khalifa's apartment Monday afternoon, and she is not represented by an attorney in the divorce proceedings.

As the tension in the marriage mounted, Johnson said, his wife got sucked into the Las Vegas nightlife. He said she began partying with her friends and ignoring him. She became particularly interested in Arabic-themed nightclubs, and in the gay clubs that cluster around the Hard Rock Hotel on Paradise Road, he said. He noted they used to frequent those clubs as a couple and enjoyed the atmosphere.

"She's gone off the deep end," he said.

About a year ago, Johnson said, his wife left him.

"I had tried to work it out with her last year," he said. "But that's not what she wanted."

He resisted her urgings that they get a divorce, he said, but ultimately realized there was nothing he could do.

They filed for divorce jointly on Nov. 17, the day after their fifth wedding anniversary. The paperwork says they are "incompatible in marriage."

"Deep down inside, she knows that I loved her more than anything in the world," Johnson said. "I can say I enjoyed every minute I spent with her."

He is living in Summerlin now with his stepmother, who also is getting over a broken relationship.

Thursday, November 25, 2004
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BINION TRIAL AFTERMATH: Murphy plans legal actions
Wrongful incarceration, palimony, inheritance battles might be coming
By GLENN PUIT
REVIEW-JOURNAL

William Fuller, the wealthy businessman who funded Sandy Murphy's defense team, talks to Rick Tabish shortly before Tabish and Murphy were acquitted of a murder charge Tuesday.
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

Sandy Murphy awaits the verdict in her murder trial Tuesday.
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

Rick Tabish, right, embraces his father, Frank, after being found not guilty of murder in the Ted Binion murder retrial Tuesday.
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

Sandy Murphy is considering a civil rights lawsuit alleging wrongful incarceration in 2000 in the death of Ted Binion, and she plans to pursue at least $1 million left to her in Binion's disputed will, an associate of her wealthy benefactor said Wednesday.

Also, Murphy benefactor William Fuller has told the Review-Journal there have been movie deal inquiries of Murphy.

"Some filming people have been in touch with me, and they are thinking of making a film out of it," said Fuller, who funded Murphy's legal defense team.

"If you win the thing, everyone wants it," Fuller said. "If you lose the thing, no one wants it."

Fuller's employee, John Prendeville, said national TV shows are showing interest: "Good Morning America" hopes to get Murphy and her attorney, Michael Cristalli, on the show next week, and a national television news show has asked about interviewing Murphy.

Murphy and Rick Tabish were charged in 1999 with drugging and killing Binion, Murphy's millionaire boyfriend, in a plot to steal his $7 million in silver and to prevent Binion from cutting Murphy out of his will. The two maintained their innocence, but they were convicted of murder and other charges in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.

The convictions were overturned on appeal last year, and Tuesday, after a six-week retrial in the courtroom of District Judge Joseph Bonaventure, Murphy and Tabish were acquitted of murder.

The jury convicted the pair of grand larceny, conspiracy and burglary in the theft of Binion's $7 million in silver.

Murphy and Tabish are scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 28, and they each face potential maximum sentences of 21 years.

Prendeville, whose name was mentioned amid witness-tampering allegations lodged by District Attorney David Roger in the Binion case earlier this year, was hired to do the behind-the-scenes work of Murphy's criminal defense.

Fuller said Tuesday he views Prendeville as a driving force behind Murphy's acquittal, and he praised Murphy's defense attorney, Michael Cristalli, and his staff for their courtroom work.

Prendeville said the Las Vegas Valley can expect litigation filed on behalf of Murphy in the coming months. Prendeville said the Murphy camp is contemplating a civil rights lawsuit based on the contention Murphy was wrongly incarcerated in 2000 and spent nearly four years in prison on false charges.

"A civil rights action is a strong possibility," Prendeville said. "It is typical litigation for anyone who has been released after being convicted wrongfully."

Prendeville said Murphy plans to pursue the items Binion left to her in her will: his house on Palomino Lane, its contents and $300,000.

The proceeds of the sale of the house, roughly $700,000, have been put in a trust account, and it has been generating interest. Prendeville estimated the amount of the sale, its contents and the interest generated to be close to $1.1 million.

But whether Murphy is due anything is expected to be contested by Binion's estate. One of Binion's attorneys, James Brown, has said Binion called the day before his Sept. 17, 1998, death and told him to take Murphy out of the will.

Litigation over Murphy's disputed inheritance was put on hold pending the resolution of the murder case. Nevada law prevents someone convicted of murder from inheriting the valuables of their victim, but now that Murphy has been acquitted, she is free to pursue the inheritance.

Prendeville said Murphy plans to pursue a palimony lawsuit previously filed against the Binion estate. The lawsuit contends Murphy is due compensation for the nearly three years she lived with Binion.

"Palimony for her loyal service and devoting her precious time to him," Prendeville said.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Binion's daughter, Bonnie, against Murphy and Tabish is still pending.

District Judge Michael Cherry, who is presiding over all of the civil cases, said Wednesday the wrongful death lawsuit, the palimony case and the probate litigation are all still pending. He expects to schedule a status check on the litigation after proceedings are resolved in the criminal case.

Cherry said he was prevented from commenting further.

Attorney Robert Murdock represents Tabish in the wrongful death lawsuit, and Murdock said he is optimistic the lawsuit will be dismissed.

"Frankly, I think it would be better for all parties if this just went away," Murdock said.

Prendeville works for Fuller, an octogenarian millionaire who made his money largely in the mining business. But Prendeville's and Fuller's names were mentioned by prosecutors earlier this year as potential targets of a witness-tampering investigation before Murphy and Tabish's retrial.

Roger, the district attorney, has said authorities are investigating whether Prendeville tampered with witness Kurt Gratzer in the Binion retrial by paying thousands of dollars in legal fees on behalf of Gratzer. The legal fees were paid for Gratzer while he was housed at a Montana jail on drunken driving charges.

Gratzer took the stand during the Binion trial and said Tabish was only joking when he talked about killing a casino owner named Ted before Binion's death. Gratzer also said he believed Murphy had nothing to do with Binion's death.

Roger has said the decision on whether to seek any charges against Prendeville would not be made until after the retrial concluded. Roger was unavailable for comment Wednesday.

Prendeville said he is confident no charges will be filed against him. He said the payments were made to Gratzer because the man was down on his luck.

Prendeville has said the payments were made well after Gratzer signed sworn affidavits indicating Murphy had nothing to do with Binion's death.

"That's all rubbish," Prendeville said of the accusations,

Fuller declined comment on the accusations, other than to say:

I'm an old dog in the road, and I've got to watch my mouth sometimes."

Fuller went on to say he has no hard feelings against the district attorney's office, and he said he thinks it and its prosecutors did a "good job" during the retrial.

"They've got a job to do," Fuller said.

In a television interview with KLAS-TV, Tabish said Wednesday he hopes to challenge the convictions on the theft of Binion's silver fortune. He said he had nothing to do with Binion's death.

"I didn't wake up (on Sept. 17, 1998,) and say, 'I'm going to kill somebody.' It didn't happen," Tabish said.

Tabish is in prison on an unrelated extortion plot. He said if he successfully challenges the silver charges, he hopes to be out of prison in about 16 months.

He said his relationship with Murphy is over.

"It's been five years, and a lot of stuff's went on," Tabish said. "I hope she gets on with her life. I hope she finds happiness. I always stood with her. ... She's not capable of killing a cricket."

Wednesday, November 24, 2004
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BINION TRIAL VERDICT: Reversal of fortunes

Jurors acquit Tabish, Murphy of murder
By GLENN PUIT
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Sandy Murphy hugs attorney Michael Cristalli after she was found not guilty in the death of Ted Binion on Tuesday.
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

Rick Tabish is congratulated by one of his attorneys, Joseph Caramagno, after Tabish was acquitted of murder in Binion's death. In front is Tabish's lead attorney, J. Tony Serra.
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

Rick Tabish and attorney J. Tony Serra enjoy the moment after Tabish's acquittal in the death of Ted Binion. Tabish was convicted in a plot to steal Binion's silver
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

To the rear, Jack Binion reacts to a jury's finding that Rick Tabish and Sandy Murphy are not guilty in the death of Binion's brother, Ted. In front of Binion is Las Vegas police homicide Detective James Buczek.
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

Ted Binion's sister, Becky Behnen, glances at Rick Tabish as the verdict was being read in the trial of Tabish and his co-defendant, Sandy Murphy. Murphy and Tabish were acquitted of murder but convicted of burglary, grand larceny and conspiracy to commit burglary and/or larceny.
Photo by Jeff Scheid.

His own addictions, not his girlfriend and her lover, killed Ted Binion, jurors decided Tuesday in the retrial of what was dubbed Las Vegas' trial of the century.

The forewoman said some jurors thought it was possible Binion was slain, but all agreed prosecutors did not prove Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish suffocated Binion, a son of late gaming legend Benny Binion.

"It did not seem like murder," one male juror said.

In the verdict that local television stations carried live, jurors found Murphy and Tabish guilty on charges relating to the attempt to steal $7 million worth of silver Binion had buried in Nye County.

Upon hearing the split verdict, Tabish nodded his head to the jury. Minutes later, he sought out his father, Frank, in the packed courtroom.

"This murder thing is behind me, man ... where's my father?" Tabish said.

A teary-eyed Frank Tabish walked up to his son, and the two embraced in a bear hug.

"It's because of this man that all this has happened," Rick Tabish said. "I love you so much. We'll get the rest of this cleaned up. Done with it. Done with it. I'm speechless right now."

Murphy buried her head in a garbage can and retched while waiting for the jury to enter the courtroom. She later trembled as the verdicts were read.

"The only way I could sum it all up is that even though I was vindicated today, nobody wins. I still lost four and half years of my freedom and six years of my life. They can never give me that back even with a not guilty verdict," Murphy, 32, said later Tuesday afternoon during an interview with the Review-Journal.

Members of Binion's family appeared stunned upon hearing the verdict and had little to say afterwards.

"Disappointed," said Binion's brother, Jack. "But that's the way it is."

Binion, 55, was found dead on the den floor at his Palomino Lane home on Sept. 17, 1998.

Police initially treated the death as a drug overdose. By his own estimation, Binion spent $1 million on heroin in his lifetime. The addiction led state regulators to take the gaming license of Binion, a former executive at Binion's Horseshoe, the downtown casino his father founded.

Two days after Binion died, Tabish and two other men were arrested when Nye County deputies caught them digging up Binion's silver fortune in Pahrump.

Convinced that Binion was killed, officials with his estate hired former Las Vegas homicide detective Tom Dillard to investigate. Based largely on evidence gathered by Dillard, police arrested Tabish and Murphy in June 1999.

Murphy, a California native, was Binion's live-in girlfriend. They met while she was working as a stripper at Cheetah's. Tabish was a contractor from Montana who befriended Binion.

At their first trial in 2000, jurors found Murphy and Tabish guilty of murder and other charges and sentenced them to life in prison. That trial held Southern Nevada spellbound, and Court TV carried the proceedings in their entirety.

The Nevada Supreme Court overturned the convictions last year. The justices said District Judge Joseph Bonaventure should have severed charges in connection with an unrelated extortion plot in which Tabish was implicated.

That ruling paved the way for the retrial, which began in October, also before Bonaventure.

On Tuesday, jurors acquitted Tabish and Murphy of murder, robbery, and conspiracy to commit murder. The jury convicted the pair of burglary and grand larceny, both felonies, and conspiracy to commit burglary and/or larceny, a gross misdemeanor. The judge set sentencing for Jan. 28.

The three convictions carry possible sentences of probation to 21 years in prison. But Bonaventure could give each defendant credit for time served. Tabish has spent more than five years in custody, while Murphy was in prison for nearly four years.

Murphy's attorney, Michael Cristalli, said he does not expect Murphy to go to prison and said she has no prior felony convictions. "If she doesn't get credit for time served, she should get probation for any time she has left," Cristalli said.

Tabish's attorney, J. Tony Serra, said even if Bonaventure imposes a moderate prison sentence for Tuesday's convictions, he expects his client to be paroled in three to four years.

Serra, a flamboyant San Francisco hippie whose life story inspired the movie "True Believer," said he believes his client's decision to get on the witness stand and proclaim his innocence was a huge factor in the case.

"People who are innocent, they want to take the stand," Serra said. "There was no question. We were always going to take the stand. Why? He's not guilty! He wasn't hiding."

Pending sentencing, Tabish will remain at High Desert State Prison at Indian Springs, where he is serving a sentence of three to 20 years for the extortion of a former sand pit owner. Murphy remains free on bail.

District Attorney David Roger, who successfully prosecuted Murphy and Tabish in 2000, said he and prosecutors Christopher Lalli and Robert Daskas were disheartened by Tuesday's verdict.

"We're obviously disappointed with the verdict, but we believe in the criminal justice system, and we accept the jury's verdict," Roger said. "Robert Daskas and Chris Lalli are fine prosecutors. They did everything that prosecutors should have done in this case."

Jurors said afterward they voted not guilty on the murder charge largely because nine different medical experts presented by Murphy and Tabish's defense attorneys said Binion died of a drug overdose.

Two prosecution medical experts, Dr. Michael Baden and Dr. Lary Simms, testified that Binion was the victim of a homicide, and only Baden said Binion was suffocated.

"Those of us who felt it was murder, there had been reasonable doubt, and our instructions very clearly said, if there was reasonable doubt, we had to go with not guilty," the jury forewoman said during a news conference at which seven jurors spoke on condition their names not be used.

The jury rejected Baden's theory that Binion was burked, which is a method of suffocation designed to leave few marks. Jurors in the first trial deemed Baden's testimony critical.

During the retrial, Baden testified that Binion's killer or killers sat on his chest while covering his mouth and nose. Baden based his theory in part on the premise that red marks found on Binion's chest were marks left by buttons pressed into his body when the killers sat on him.

"We pretty much felt that they weren't button marks," the jury forewoman said.

A male juror said Binion's decades of substance abuse made it hard to conclude he was murdered. Large amounts of heroin and the prescription drug Xanax were found in Binion's system after he died.

"The lifestyle that Ted lived had made it hard for us," the juror said.

Jurors said they did not give the testimony of Tabish any extra weight as evidence. "I regarded him as I did every other witness that was on there," one female juror said.

During his two days on the witness stand, Tabish said that he was not at Binion's house the day he died and that Binion had told him that if he died, Tabish was to secure his silver from the vault in Pahrump, so his daughter, Bonnie, would get it.

"It didn't matter whether Ted told him to do it or not," one male juror said. "He shouldn't have been there. It was a bad choice to make."

Montana resident Kurt Gratzer testified that Tabish talked to him about killing a casino owner named Ted before Binion's death. But Gratzer, who behaved erratically on the witness stand, said Tabish made the comments in a joking manner.

"We didn't believe most of what he said," a female juror said of Gratzer.

Prosecutors called witnesses intended to corroborate Gratzer's claims. Those witnesses, including a hair stylist and a convenience store owner from Tabish's hometown of Missoula, Mont., said Gratzer told them of Tabish's comments before Binion's death.

But jurors said the witnesses might have been confused about the dates when they spoke with Gratzer.

Jurors said they think Las Vegas police botched the crime scene investigation.

Jurors said they thought that police concluded prematurely the death was likely a drug overdose and that potential evidence was not properly secured until well after the crime scene was contaminated.

"We did feel because they had decided it wasn't a murder, it was an accidental overdose, that there was a lot that they should have done that they didn't do," the jury forewoman said.

Prosecutors argued that circumstantial facts indicated Murphy and Tabish drugged Binion, then suffocated him. One of those facts involved Binion telling his attorney to take Murphy out of the will the day before he died.

Attorneys for Murphy have said that, under the terms of the will, she was entitled to Binion's house, its contents and $300,000 if Binion died while they remained a couple.

After Murphy's first trial in 2000, Binion's estate successfully argued that her murder conviction rendered Murphy ineligible to collect under the will.

Now that she has been acquitted, Murphy's attorneys could return to civil court and demand Binion's estate give her the compensation she was entitled to under the will.

Binion's estate has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Murphy and Tabish. That lawsuit has been inactive, but attorneys for the estate could seek to reactivate the case. The standard of proof in a civil case is lower than in a criminal action.

Commenting after Tuesday's verdict, jurors said they viewed with mild skepticism the testimony of witnesses who received reward money from Binion's estate.

One such witness was former manicurist Deanna Perry, who testified Murphy came into the Neiman Marcus beauty salon a week before Binion's death and predicted he soon would die of an overdose.

"Binion bought a prosecution," Serra said. "Therefore, it was never bona fide. Witnesses were paid thousands of dollars to curtail the truth and shade it in the direction the Binions wanted."

Dillard, the private investigator for Binion's estate, said his investigation was solid.

"Obviously I disagree with the verdict," Dillard said. "I feel good for Mr. and Mrs. Tabish. They stuck with their kid from the beginning, and that's what parents are supposed to do. But I think they (the defendants) got a stroke of luck from day one."

He declined to elaborate.

Tabish's father said he always believed his son would be exonerated.

"I have dealt with hundreds of thousands of people," said Frank Tabish, a businessman in Montana. "I think I can read people, and I thought I could read those people (jurors). They were fair people and had fair faces."

Frank Tabish said that his son's defense has cost more than $1 million and that Rick Tabish hopes to reunite with his children, who are in the custody of Rick Tabish's ex-wife.

"They're little kids," Frank Tabish said. "What's great is that today we proved their father is not a murderer."

Review-Journal writers Carri Geer Thevenot and Frank Geary contributed to this report.

Lynette McDonald has been appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of GSBPA by WBTI
By Bill Young, Jessie Walsh, and Tiffany Chang

The Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (GSBPA) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) was established early in 2003. Drs. E. Lee Bernick and Keong Leong were appointed as Deans of the School by WBTI on March 11, 2003. "The mission of this School will emphasize the humanitarian orientation of public administration adn social responsibility of business management . Throuugh academic entrepreneurship, we may expect the endeavor of this school for the community service based on humane spirit, led by Chairperson Elaine Chao of WBTI," said Dr. Dina Titus, Professor of Administrative Strategies in GSBPA. Dina is a Senator of Nevada Senate and Adjunct Professor of Political Science of UNLV.*1

"Through the recommendation by our faculty members including District Judge Jessie Walsh and Clak County Sheriff Bill Young, Ms. Lynette Boggs McDonald has been appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration (GSBPA) of Washington Business and Technology Institute (WBTI) on October 21, 2004," announced Dr. John Wang, Spokesman of WBTI, on Friday, October 22, 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"It's my great pleasure to accept the task, responsibility, and practice," said Lynette McDonald at the time when she was informed by President of WBTI Dr. Tony Lei for the appointment. "With the capacity on adjunct basis, it's good for me to develop my entrepreneurial spirit by utilizing both my advanced education in public adminstration and practical experience in managerial responsibilities at UNLV."

...... She is a business graduate of the University of Notre Dame, attended the University of Oregon Graduate School of Journalism and received a Master's of Public Administration degree from UNLV.*2

In April of 2004 she was appointed by Governor Guinn to serve as County Commissioner ............Lynette is working with community stakeholders to update neighborhood master plans so that responsible and predictable land-use decisions can be made. She negotiated a land exchange with the BLM and a local developer to preserve Red Rock Canyon. When a developer failed to keep his commitment to donate land for a new school, she blocked his building permits until he made good on that promise. Lynette will continue fighting to ensure developers live up to ..........

Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs McDonald was appointed by President Bush to serve on a national commission related to international study programs.

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The commission will launch the new program, which is designed to expose Americans to international cultures, governments and economic systems, and which will probably work with the U.S. State Department.

"To encourage the cooperation and development of English and Chinese speaking countries with Nevada has been particularly important to our country at this critical period of time. The establishment of GSBPA will launch our effort that emphasizes the value of humane and administrative orientation. The creed of this School is both on the spirit of educational excellence and academic entrepreneurship. We're forecasting the smoth and efficient growth of this School together with the growth of the tourism industry and the economy of Nevada after the 911 and SARS," Dr. E. Lee Bernick, Dean of GSBPA, who is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Public Administration of UNLV, said at the Summer 2003 Symposium and Dinner Party. It was held by WBTI at the Zax Restaurant of Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino on May 19, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada.*5
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References
*1. Denton, Mark; Walsh, Jessie; ...........

Delegate Nomination for South Shores Community Association

I wish to serve as a delegate because: I (Dr. Tony Lei) will offer my endeavor, knowledge, and ability to carry out the duties for the rights and benefits of the homeowners and residents here in our community. I'll work to motivate both the good production and human relations on the work performance of our Association and the Management Company which we, the homeowners, are paying service fees to support.

Qualifications I feel will benefit the community: Delegates who are good in managemt knowledge and experience will do better with the Home Association Company to promote the work performance for the rights and benefits of our homeowners. Many years as an Associate Professor and a Fellow of Management of the Graduate School of Business Administration of National Chung Hsing University and Pepperdine University, I may use my knowledge to serve our community. Many institutions such as Nevadan U. S. Representative Shelley Berkley of the Congress, Assistant District Attorney Office of Clark County, Constable's Office of Las Vegas Township, Raleigh, Hunt, McGarry & Drizin. P.C., among others invited me as the Senior Advisor. I may use my experience to work for our homeowners and residents. I received my M.B.A. and Ed.D. in Institutional Management from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, but my knowledge and experience will be also important for me to service our community together with my sincere and humble personal traits.

Other information I wish to share: "Dr. Tony Lei has worked for our community in Southern Nevada more than eleven years based on his belief that 'By the act of love itself, we are enriched. Love in action is service above self. Make service a part of our character and experience the abundant reward that comes from serving others. Let our heroes be the great servants who have given all for the betterment of others' lives. Let our candle fuel a fire that will fan out an ever-increasing circles. With these circles together we can close our eyes and evision a community that is safe, peaceful, and healthy.' We need such a people like him to work for our community," said a District Judge (incumbent with two terms) of our Family Court. I love the atmosphere here, I love the environment here, and especially I love the people here in our community. We should expect both of our Association and Management Company put effort to help our community be of our homeowners, by our homeowners , and for our homeowners. It's a good thing by working for you at the same time working for our families also because both of us are homeowners.*(*This information has brought to you also by Las Vegas Review-Journal 's lasvegas.com through the Section of "Social & Community" at http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti)

Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

EDITORIAL: Sen. Reid's ascent

Nevadans' voice in Congress just got a lot louder. Harry Reid was elected Senate minority leader Tuesday, elevating him to the top of the Democratic Party's dwindling membership in the upper house.

Sen. Reid's ascent to one of the most important positions in Washington is a remarkable achievement. From humble beginnings in hardscrabble Searchlight, the 64-year-old has spent decades accumulating political capital in Nevada and the nation's capital. He rose from the Assembly to the lieutenant governor's office at age 30. He chaired the Nevada Gaming Commission for five years before winning election to the House of Representatives in 1982, then the Senate in 1986.

For the past six years, he served as the party's second in command. Now, despite Nevada's lack of political clout, Sen. Reid has a chance to lead. No Nevadan has ever held a position of such power in the nation's capital.

Sen. Reid will have no honeymoon in his new job. Democrats hold only 44 of the Senate's 100 seats, their lowest ratio since the Great Depression. With a weakened minority he'll have to pick his battles with Republicans carefully, particularly in handling President Bush's judicial nominations.

But Sen. Reid will have even greater liberty to take up causes important to Nevada, including the state's opposition to the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and misguided efforts to eliminate legal wagering on college and amateur sports.

"I always would rather dance than fight," Sen. Reid said Tuesday. "But I know how to fight."

Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Copyright @ Las Vegas Review-Journal

JOHN L. SMITH: Senator from Searchlight could be just what beleaguered Democrats need

Harry Reid may be the most powerful Democrat in the U.S. Senate, but down at the Searchlight Nugget he's still just plain old Harry.

The Searchlight native, known as "Pinky" to old schoolmates like Mary Ann McInnis, is set to become the Senate minority leader today in Washington, D.C., as the Democrats rally following painful Election Day losses.

McInnis, a Searchlight native who attended first- through eighth-grade classes with Reid in the tiny hilltop schoolhouse, these days shares a variety of restaurant and casino duties at the Searchlight Nugget. She understands the media interest in the nationally prominent politician, but for McInnis and other locals Reid remains the same quiet, clean-living son of a miner he's always been.

"I think it's great," Mary Ann says between restaurant customers after finishing a TV news interview Monday. "It's sure giving us a lot of attention and all that. But Harry's just another person to us. Of course we're proud of him, but when he's here, we just sit around and talk about old times and stuff."

Pat Milliren, a 19-year resident, works the morning shift as a cashier at the Nugget. "I think it's fabulous that he's made it this far from a little town," Milliren says.

After 36 years in Searchlight, Nugget hostess Judy Watson qualifies as a local. She's on a first-name basis with the senator, too.

"I call him Harry," Watson says. "I knew all of his family. He's kind of put Searchlight on the map, and I think he's done real good for us out here. I've never seen him gamble, never seen him take a drink, and he was always very, very good to his mother."

Thanks to Reid, Searchlight might be the only town in America to have the ice cream at its only McDonald's franchise rhapsodized on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Reid extolled the virtues of fast-food sundaes and shrub-gnawing rabbits during a filibuster last year to protest some Republican dirty tricks.

Searchlight has always been a symbol for Reid, a beaconlike reminder of his hungry childhood and humble beginnings. He loves to talk about his hometown and reminisce about selected snapshots of his youth.

But anyone who believes Reid is some aw-shucks, small-town boy is as foolish as any dreamer who ever tramped the Eldorado Mountains for gold.

Reid isn't as well known as some of his colleagues from the East, but he has the right stuff for the Democratic Party, which has gone daffy in recent years courting ever more liberal constituencies while largely taking for granted its mainstream, Main Street middle.

That's another great irony about Reid. While Nevada's chief employer is the traditionally pariah gaming industry, and the state has yet to cast off its outlaw imagine in much of the popular media, thanks to our racy casino advertising, socially speaking Reid is a certified square.

Politically, however, he excels at the kind of hardball that makes big allies and bigger enemies in Washington. It's no secret he was a behind-the-scenes player in the gentle persuasion that led Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords to change his party affiliation from Republican to independent, thus bringing the Democrats a short-lived majority position in the Senate. Nor is it news that, until they made a wise reassessment, members of the Bush administration this year were focused on knocking off Reid, who beat John Ensign by just 428 votes in 1998.

Reid, 64, is quietly anti-abortion. He co-sponsored the proposed constitutional amendment banning the burning of the flag, then declined to wave it whenever a TV camera was on.

Loud and liberal works on the coasts. In California, New York, or Massachusetts, Reid's Mormon faith and anti-abortion position would probably fail miserably. But liberal politics don't play as well inland, where Republicans painted the country red on Election Day.

Maybe some of Reid's fellow Democrats will listen now that he's about to become the party's most powerful senator. But even if they refuse to be roused from their stupor, Reid's first duty is to ensure the minority Democrats play it smart for a change.

The kid from Searchlight made good decades ago.

Now he's about to make history.

John L. Smith's column appears Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. E-mail him at Smith@reviewjournal.com or call 383-0295.

[asiancare@fibertel.com]
Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:02:19 -0800
Subject: WBTI is wonderful!

Dear Dr. Lei,

I can't believe that I hit the visitor's winner number 88,888th of WBTI
website. What a marvelous surprise! Washington Business and Technology
Institute is a comprehensive website which consists of politics,
business,
culture, education and much more. I am astonished to see its updated
volume
of information through all works of lives.

All of these are made possible by Dr. Lei's dedication and hard work.
Dr.
Lei is inspiring our younger generation to be more devoted to our
community
and society; to be more responsible for our action; to be more caring
to
people around us. To me and to many viewers of WBTI around the world,
Dr.
Lei is a super leader who leads us to be informed and upright
professionals.

Thank you, Dr. Lei and God bless you!

Sincerely,

Yi Li
Marketing Manager
FiberTel, Inc.

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Dear Dr. Lei,

I sincerely apologize for the delay. I just emailed you a letter of how
I
felt about WBTI, every single word is from my heart.

Please give whatever winning prize to Judy. She is a lady whose beauty
is
not only from outside, but also from within. I like and respect her
tremendously.

Have a great day!

Yi Li

From: Nancy Oesterle, Las Vegas Judge
[OES@Co.Clark.NV.US]
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:39:59 -0800

Hello Dr. Lei,
I am very sorry that I will not be able to attend this function. I have a previously scheduled engagement that I cannot change. Thank you so much for thinking of me when you sent the invitation. Just so you are aware, I need at least 1 month advance notice of any functions. My calendar is always over booked.

Again, thank you so much for the thought and the invite. Take care.

Bye for now,
Nancy

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[GRIMMDE@Co.Clark.NV.US]
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:10:28 -0800

Hi, Dr. Lei:

Because of Judge Vega's daughter's soccer schedule, Judge Vega will not
be able to attend. She sends her regrets and thanks you for your
iinvitation.

Dee Grimm, Jud. Exec. Asst. to the
Hon. Valorie J. Vega, District Judge, Dept. 2
(702) 455-4645
Fax (702) 382-0006
E-mail: grimmde@co.clark.nv.us

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Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:43:23 -0800
[D4476K@LVMPD.com]

Dr. Lei:
I regret to inform you that Sheriff Young will be out of town at a
conference on the date of your event. Thank you for thinking of him
and
please let us know about future events.
Thank you,
Denise

Denise L. Kee
Executive Management Assistant
LVMPD Office of the Sheriff
(702)229-3233

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Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:57:53 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
[judgegeraldhardcastle@earthlink.net]

Dear Dr. Lei

Thank you for the kind invitation. Unfortunately, I am presently on a
post-election vacation in Kauai until shortly after the dinner. I will
be unable to attend but appreciate the invitation.

Judge Gerald Hardcastle

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Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:21:42 -0800
[CDA@Co.Clark.NV.US]

Dear Dr. Lei,

Thank you for this kind invitation. Unfortunately, Commissioner (Chip)
Maxfield will be unable to attend as he has a prior appointment.

Sincerely,

Carole Cady
Administrative Secretary
455-3500

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Dear Assistant to Chip,

Chip has been cordially invited by us as one of our
Geust of Honor. Would you please confirm for him with
us? Thank you.

Dear friends, Based on the following invitation card,
you are welcomed to attend this Event and Dinner
Party:

Dear U. S. Senators Honorable Harry Reid , U. S.
Representatives Jim Gibbons, Shelley Berkley, and Jon
Porter; and Nevada high-ranking officials-eleted,

Dr. Tony T. Lei, President of Washington
Business and Technology Institute
(WBTI) and Mrs. Sapatra Chemprachum,
President of Thai Cultural Arts Association of Las
Vegas

request the honor of
your presence
as Guests
of Honor
at the Event and
Dinner Party for
Royal Thai
Performing Arts
present by TCAALV,
co-sponsored
by WBTI, Asian Leaders,
among others
on Tuesday, the Sixteenth of
November, 2004
in the East Las Vega
Community/Senior Center
250 N. Eastern Ave, (at Stewart) Las
Vegas, Nevada
Tel.
229-1515
from 6:30 p.m.
- 10:30 p.m.

This is also a celabration event and dinner party for
the 2004 high-ranking officials-elected of Nevada. We are going to have about 460 attendants. For the high-ranking officials-elected, please have
your Assistant RSVP to (702)369-5439; (702)255-9058
or E-mail: tojulei@yahoo.com to cofirm our
invitation card to you.

RSVP: Seating is limited. Confirmation required for
seating. Please call Thai Cultural Art Association
for reservation at (702)369-5439 with donations
of $30, $20, or $15 on or before 12 noon, Monday,
November 15, 2004.
* P.S.: Featured with Classical &
Folk dances and Folk-Play (LIKAY).

[gsepalum@pepperdine.edu]
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:47:39 -0800

Dr. Lei,

It was so kind of you to take the time to post our thanksgiving card on
your
site. It is an honor to us that you keep us in such high regard. Please
be
sure to keep in touch with us in the future and do not hesitate to
contact
us if we can be of any assistance.

Brennan Kahn
Graduate Assistant
GSEP Advancement and Alumni Relations
Pepperdine University
West Los Angeles Graduate Campus
Graduate School of Education and Psychology
6100 Center Dr.
Los Angeles, CA?90045
(310) 568-5664
gsepalum@pepperdine.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Lei [mailto:tojulei@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:10 AM
To: GSEP Alumni
Subject: Happy Thanksgiving! You're on reviewjournal.com!

Dear Dean Dr. Weber, Associate Dean deMayo, and
Director Mayer,

Happy thanksgiving!

We had designed nicely your card to the WBTI website
through the revewjournal.com.*1

*1. For more details, please have
your Assistant or yourself click on
the sections of "Pepperdine Graduate
School of Edu. & Psy. Link", "Las
Vegas Business Today", etc. at:

http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/lvrj/wbti

Sincerely,

Dr. Tony Lei
President
WBTI