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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four federal prosecutors from Las Vegas were among almost 250 people honored during a Justice Department ceremony in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder presented awards to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre (MY'-ree) and assistant U.S. attorneys James Keller, Phillip Smith, Jr., and Timothy Vasquez on Wednesday at a Director's Awards event.
Myhre and Keller were recognized for the 2011 convictions of two Montana men, Rick Young and William Willard, in a securities fraud case involving more than 1,400 victims and high-risk foreign currency futures.
Smith and Vasquez were honored for their prosecution of former U.S. Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle. He was convicted and sentenced to prison in 2012 for heading a scheme to sell machine guns, explosives and military hardware from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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