Ex-Nev. power broker Whittemore out of prison
By Jeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Former power broker Harvey Whittemore was released from a federal halfway house Monday after serving 21 months of a two-year prison term for breaking campaign contribution laws.
Whittemore, 63, who surrendered in August 2014 at a federal prison camp in Lompoc, California, spent the last three months in the halfway house. He now will serve two years of supervised release in Nevada.
His lead Las Vegas lawyer, Dominic Gentile, declined to comment Monday.
A Reno federal jury in 2013 found Whittemore guilty of funneling $133,400 in unlawful contributions to the campaign of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
