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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009From this article: U.S. SENATE TESTIMONY: Sheriff sees hotels, casinos helping Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said law enforcers are stepping up their outreach to Strip and downtown hotels, and also to private guards who live and work in Las Vegas. This will further solidify the already too-friendly relationship between police and the many pinhead [...]
The Bear Growls: Casino security goes berserk again — Cannery and Stratosphere craziness
Friday, February 20th, 2009Despite many well-publicized settlements and large jury verdicts for casino abuse of patrons, casino security still doesn’t seem to understand the basics. Of all the casino security stupidity I’ve personally encountered over the years, and of all I’m aware that has happened to others, the one at the Cannery ranks among the stupidest. They (Cannery [...]
The Bear Growls: Lucky’s sportsbook teetering on the edge?
Saturday, February 7th, 2009I have growled and revised my growl about Lucky’s in the past. But it looks like my original assessment of this feeble organization is proving to be correct: Apparently undercapitalized and definitely paranoid, Lucky’s is an embarrassment. Within the past week, at least three patrons have had to wait unreasonable amounts of time to get [...]
Bear Praise: Policing the Police
Friday, January 16th, 2009North Las Vegas detectives arrested two of the department’s own officers Thursday, who are suspected of misconduct during a December incident involving a casino patron. It is good to know that the North Las Vegas Police Department takes officer misconduct seriously. Although the two accused officers deserve the presumption of innocence just like anyone else [...]
The Bear Growls: Shoddy construction but no meaningful enforcement; MGM, Harrah’s get free passes
Thursday, January 8th, 2009City Center has been exposed as containing substandard construction work. Just like the Harrah’s remodeling scandal, the scofflaws and/or incompetents who let this happen are likely to get away scot free. Do buildings have to collapse and kills hundreds of tourists before our local officials take these crimes seriously? No one has gone to jail [...]
New York video poker/lottery scam
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009A reader submitted the following: Recently announced plans to open a huge VLT gaming facility at Aqueduct racetrack in New York City warrant a warning to New York’s VLT patrons who will think they have found well-paying video poker machines but who, in actuality, will be had by the VLT facility and its partner, the [...]
The Bear Growls: New Nevada Gaming Control Board appointee another industry insider
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Lipparelli, 43, who lives in Las Vegas, spent four years as an executive vice president at Bally Technologies and two years as president and vice president of Shuffle Master. Lipparelli also held several positions with Casino Data Systems, a technology company purchased by Aristrocrat Technologies in late 1999. Expected, but disappointing. I can’t remember the [...]
The Bear Growls: Open seat on Nevada Gaming Control Board: Will the governor pick someone who has patrons’ interests in mind?
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008There is an opening on the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Is it too much to hope for that Governor Gibbons will appoint someone with an interest in protecting patrons? All three present board members are “see no evil, hear no evil” industry puppets who routinely ignore casino wrongdoing. If Nevada is to have a chance [...]
The Bear Growls: District Attorney helping sweep Harrah’s crimes under the rug
Thursday, October 30th, 2008The casino-hugging Clark County District Attorney, David Roger, is helping Harrah’s sweep the substandard building scandal under the rug. According to this news article, Harrah’s is essentially being given a free pass to correct its criminal behavior without penalty. The arraignment of Harrah’s itself on the criminal charges, as well as the arraignments of two [...]
The Bear Growls: Chrissy Mazzeo is back
Thursday, October 16th, 2008From this article: It was a deja vu moment: There was former cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo in an attorney’s office accusing Gov. Jim Gibbons of assaulting her in a parking garage. Her attorney claimed some of Nevada’s most powerful men had orchestrated a cover-up. She was mobbed by local media who shouted over each [...]
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