It’s a new year in Las Vegas. The Boulevard has been swept clean, but there’s unfinished business on the Strip. It threatens to give the state’s largest industry and its regulators a bell-ringing hangover.
Disgraced Strip casino executive Scott Sibella is gone after having his gaming license revoked Dec. 19 as part of a settlement with the Nevada Gaming Commission. But he shouldn’t be forgotten.
Sibella, 62, pleaded guilty in January 2024 to a single violation of failing to report suspicious casino transactions as required under the Bank Secrecy Act during his 2017-2019 tenure as president of the MGM Grand Hotel. Sibella allowed high-roller Wayne Nix, whom he knew to be an illegal bookmaker, to gamble with cash at the casino.
