There are, by my count, two credible sources of information about the legal and regulatory challenges within the Las Vegas gaming scene. The first is Robert Cipriani, a.k.a. “Robin Hood 702,” a man known as a high-rolling gambler and an FBI informant. I am often amazed at the number of things he gets right. And the other entity that appears to have been alive to what is going on in Las Vegas gaming over the course of the last few years is the federal government.
It fascinates me that I can write the above paragraph 53 years after I took my first job in the gaming industry.
The entity that is supposed to have its finger on the pulse of Nevada gaming, the Nevada Gaming Control Board, is in a continuing process of “whack-a-mole” leadership changes and seems to have lost the plot. It is down to a lame-duck chairman and George Assad.
