I was a former resident of Las Vegas but moved away several years
ago.

The "government" of the city is a complete joke and there is only ONE
GAME in this town.  The city is run by the corporations that own the
casinos and the entire focus of the laws and taxes is to make it a
mecca for cheap casino labor at the expense of everyone else in order
to best "serve" the tourists who supply the main source of $$$.   In
the education department,for example, there is basically one
requirement for teachers, a certain foreign language requirement -
without them saying so openly, it is virtually the sole requirement.

Since it is a one horse town that has grown to exceedingly large
proportions, (think endless rows of identical cookie cutter houses
with the same stucco walls and the same spanish gable roofs)  but
still totally dedicated towards the tourists and the casinos, you can
imagine that the regulatory agencies are a little understaffed.  It's
actually worse than that, they are almost non-existent.  I tried
making a complaint about a plumber who had charged excessively to
check for a gas leak after getting the run around by various state and
city agencies - there is NO department of consumer affairs, just a
"pretend" one,  and got a woman at the regulatory agency who
essentially told me to go get an attorney.
She said if I wanted to fill out a complaint that they would be happy
to file it but hinted that nothing would actually be done.
Some time later I called a different number complaining about a
startup company which promised us programmers and engineers stock in
the company in lieu of pay when their seed capital ran low.
To my surprise, I got the same woman and got the same spiel about "go
get an attorney".

As you can imagine, with a "government" like that, Las Vegas became a
mecca for every kind of con artist, quick buck scamster and home
improvement bilker imaginable.  Health care is NO exception - I was
routinely charged $250 for a simple thyroid panel blood test.
So it comes as no surprise that the hepatitis scandal occurred.
I was later told by one of my friends out there that one of the
doctors I saw was the wife of the owner of the lab which was the
source of the outbreak, but since I no longer lived there, I have not
verified this report.

Since the startup company stopped paying us for several months, I said
the hell with it after fruitlessly trying to get a programming job
with one of the many electronic gaming companies and sold both houses
(divine stroke of luck, this was only 3 years before the bottom fell
out of the housing market) and moved back east.

Citizen Jimserac