Former state senator and county commissioner Mark James told people he would never settle the breach of contract case filed against him by his estranged close friend, Steve Kalish.
She decided it was time to settle, whether James wanted to or not. Last week, the case was settled in principle, avoiding a lurid trial to start Oct. He started his business with five cabs in North Las Vegas. Today, it has a fleet of more than 1, cabs and limousines serving Southern Nevada. When Kalish sued in December , he insisted he actually ran the company in and under a secret financial agreement with James, once considered gubernatorial material by the GOP. The savvy and very private widow was never sued as an individual, but was expected to testify as a witness.
However, she showed up with her own attorney, John Mowbray, at the settlement conference mediated by District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, and a settlement was reached. The terms are confidential.
District Judge Mark Denton agreed with Discovery Commissioner Thomas Biggar that James, an attorney himself, had been deceitful and destroyed documents during the pretrial discovery process.
Phone records from October through August showed James was communicating with prostitutes nearly daily, according to Kalish attorney James Pisanelli. Email her at Jane reviewjournal. She also blogs at lvrj. Is this routine or an anomaly? Selifa Boukari McGreevy wants to bring attention to the horrors of female genital mutilation by sharing her own experience.
