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Rizzolo son avoids jail in battery case

The son of the former owner of the Crazy Horse Too topless cabaret will avoid jail time in a 2007 extortion and stabbing case.

District Judge Jackie Glass on Tuesday sentenced Dominic Rizzolo, 26, son of Rick Rizzolo, to spend 12 months to 72 months in prison, but suspended the sentence.


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  • She placed Dominic Rizzolo on probation for five years. Glass said she was concerned with the deal made between prosecutors and Dominic Rizzolo's attorney. The district attorney's office, Glass said, didn't oppose probation for Dominic Rizzolo, and the state Parole Division considered him an acceptable candidate for probation.

    "You need to be right down the straight and narrow," Glass said.

    Authorities accused Dominic Rizzolo of trying to extort $20,000 from a man whom he suspected of credit card theft. Dominic Rizzolo ended up stabbing the man, according to a Las Vegas police report.

    He was charged with extortion and battery with a deadly weapon but police said prosecutors should consider attempted murder and conspiracy charges. In October, Dominic Rizzolo pleaded guilty to one count of battery with use of a deadly weapon.

    During sentencing, Rizzolo, who lives in Florida, apologized and said he accepts responsibility for the incident.

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    Cereal Box Justice wrote on January 15, 2009 06:53 PM: Jennifer, I am so sorry for your loss.

    You are on the right track. DO GO STRAIGHT TO THE TOP!!! You know what that means! DON'T stop. Don't worry about the GLASS woman. She is ensuring her own demise. Focus on what your gut is telling you.

    There are many behind you. I promise!


    downey wrote on January 15, 2009 12:56 AM: Judge Glass is just getting the voters prepared for her next high profile case. When she lets off that official from Olymplic Garden .Afroditi Eliades Ledstrom that killed Michael Ponzio, driving the wrong way on the freaking freeway.say it aint so Jackie.


    Jennifer Barrier wrote on January 14, 2009 10:45 PM: I personally cannot believe Jackie Glass for making such an inadequate rulling. What is wrong with this lady? She is in the wrong career.
    I know for a fact that she is CORRUPT. Been told by many.

    Attempted murder? Okay, so who's next? Me or you.

    This town is due for a CLEAN UP.

    Jennifer (Buffalo Jim's daughter)

    By the way, I have not given up on my father. I'm getting to the top!


    Square D wrote on January 14, 2009 09:07 PM: This is an example of the old saying what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas When the Judge and DA side with the criminal and do little or nothing it only makes it less safe to be in Las Vegas.


    Fair and Balanced Fred wrote on January 14, 2009 08:20 PM: Please, please, please.

    Will the Los Angeles Times come in and investigate how a cowardly bully who stabs another with a deadly weapon in a $20,000. extortion attempt gets a mere slap on the wrist from tough-gal-poser Jackie Glass?

    Will the (selectively) tough-gal (other times bully-wimpette) Judge Jackie Glass prove just how tough she is and explain her actions before a critical interviewer?

    Here's some background on Dominic Rizzolo's scummy daddy, Rick (like father like son). The cringing, progenitor grandpa of two generations of vile, antisocial spawn now wishes he'd had a vasectomy early on:

    "Federal prosecutors never got a chance to prove a criminal case tying former Crazy Horse Too owner Rick Rizzolo to the mob.

    Before that could happen, Rizzolo pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 2006 and struck a deal to end a decade long racketeering case against him.

    "But that didn’t stop Stan Hunterton, a former prosecutor with the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Strike Force, from keeping allegations of Rizzolo’s underworld associations alive during a hearing in federal court Friday on the status of the government’s efforts to sell the topless club it had seized from the imprisoned Rizzolo.

    “'Not since the reign of Anthony Spilotro and his associates has there been a more infamous hoodlum than Rick Rizzolo,' Hunterton told U.S. District Judge Philip Pro as Rizzolo’s father, Bart Rizzolo, cringed in the first row of the courtroom gallery."

    http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/feb/28/front-father-rizzolo-called-mob-hoodlum/


    taxpayer wrote on January 14, 2009 08:19 PM: Every one is missing the point to the one statement Glass said: "You need to right down the straight and narrow." The meaning: Your father needs to give me a hugh campaign contribution for when I run for re-election.


    David Rogers lives in a Glass House; Part 2 wrote on January 14, 2009 05:39 PM: Life On The Rockpile

    The musings and observations of a former Nevada State Assemblyman. The comments within are fully intended to offend the politically correct and the corrupt, whomever they may be....



    This is of course a lie. The police have full authority to enter any community they choose to stop a crime. Guess what sort of community the Rizzolos live in.

    Here in Nevada we elect our judges. If that isn’t a recipe for corruption, I cannot guess what is. An elected judge is always weighing their decisions on whether or not actually serving justice will get them unelected. Therefore we develop one justice system for the rich and another for the rest of us.

    I can name less than a handful of current serving legislators and judges I could trust to do the right thing. Based on the last election, the electorate does not want judges and legislators known to be honest. They will vote for whomever puts out the largest amount of hate mail. We now have another judicial election cycle coming up. God help us all.

    Posted by Bob Beers at 1:50 PM


    David Rogers lives in a Glass House wrote on January 14, 2009 05:29 PM: This would not be so unusual except that the order came from the same judge that hammered O.J. Simpson with hard time for using armed associates to get some of his stuff back. Those weapons were not used, by the way.

    T Nancy Glass, went out of the way to keep Dominic Rizzolo out of prison, even so far as calling up the defense council, Tony Sgro and advising him to come by in two years, and request she withdraw Dominic's felony plea and replace it with a gross misdemeanor. American Mafia writer, Steve Miller noted this in his column: Even Judge Glass' criminal defense attorney husband disagrees with her coddling a dangerous criminal: "People convicted of violent crimes have their prison sentences impacted by the harm done to their victims." "Any person who uses a... deadly weapon... in the commission of a crime shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term equal to and in addition to the term of imprisonment prescribed by statute for the crime." - From the website of attorney Steve Wolfson.

    Our District Attorney, David Roger, is no slouch either when it comes to corruption. He is supposedly the one who urged Judge Glass to go easy on his favorite mobster of the week. In the neighborhood of Nevada’s Mr. Rogers, you can only commit a crime if you are a normal working citizen and not a potential or past campaign contributor. Several people have told me that the response from Metro, when they call to complain about a possible crime in progress and they happen to live in a gated community, is that the police cannot respond because it is in a gated community. This is of course a lie. The police have full authority to enter any community they choose


    poor judge wrote on January 14, 2009 04:29 PM: "You need to be right down the straight and narrow," Glass said.



    Looks like she really should direct that phrase to her own self. For any judge to just give a criminal JUST PROBATION for attempted murder, then it's an obvious indication that she could not ON HER OWN give an appropiate sentence. Best believe that Dave Rogers was a key in her decision. CROOK..



    WHAT A JUDGE. Jackie needs to be investigated immediately. She has not FAIRLY ruled out the right sentence in which she needs a little help, now does she?




    poor judge wrote on January 14, 2009 04:29 PM: "You need to be right down the straight and narrow," Glass said.

    Looks like she really should direct that phrase to her own self. For any judge to just give a criminal JUST PROBATION for attempted murder, then it's an obvious indication that she could not ON HER OWN give an appropiate sentence. Best believe that Dave Rogers was a key in her decision. CROOK..

    WHAT A JUDGE. Jackie needs to be investigated immediately. She has not FAIRLY ruled out the right sentence in which she needs a little help, now does she?


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