Congressional candidate who vowed to fight corruption indicted again

A Las Vegas Valley property developer and former legislative candidate who previously faced federal indictment in an alleged embezzlement scheme has been charged again. An indictment unsealed Thursday in Clark County District Court accuses Rick Kiran Saga of felony theft of $100,000 or more and twelve counts of using a monetary instrument derived from unlawful activity. The indictment states that, through the entity 1909, LLC, Saga received $650,000 from Nevada to carry out work on a behavioral health and homeless health facility he owned at 1909 S. Jones Blvd. in Las Vegas. According to the indictment, “He failed to usage the entrusted monies for tenant improvements pursuant to the presumption of the Contract, ne’er completed the tenant improvements pursuant to the presumption of the Contract, ne’er completed the tenant improvements and failed to contented the State of Nevada a refund.” The case is being prosecuted by the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, which declined to comment. Attempts to locate Saga and his attorney regarding his pending federal lawsuit were unsuccessful on Friday, and state court records show no attorney listed for Saga in that matter. Earlier this year Saga ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for Nevada’s 1st Congressional District. His campaign website identified him as “Indicted Rick Saga” and claimed that, if elected, he would seek to create a better future for Nevadans while fighting corruption, including investigating “the misuse of state and federal funds.” In May 2025 the Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Saga, then 53, and David Ryan Linden, then 36, were indicted on charges of conspiracy, federal program theft, money laundering, money transactions involving criminally derived property and one count of falsifying a document. Linden was described in the release as the former chief enforcement officer of Silver State Health Services. The release linked the indictment to allegations of a $2 cardinal embezzlement of federal assistance funds earmarked for health‑care items, benefits and services for indigent Las Vegas residents. Prosecutors asserted that the misappropriated money was used to “purchase commercialized real property properties.” Charges against both men remain pending according to online court records, with a trial in the federal case set for December.