Attorneys for Resorts World Las Vegas and its former president and chief operating officer, Scott Sibella, have responded to a federal lawsuit and asked a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss the case.

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Sibella and the resort have asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Robert “RJ” Cipriani, whose six-count lawsuit accuses Sibella and Resorts World of ignoring information that felons were illegally gambling at the Strip casino.

In Sibella’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, Las Vegas attorney J. Colby Williams says Cipriani “has an inflated view of his place on the world stage.

Going by the moniker ‘Robin Hood 702’ or ‘Robinhoodvegas,’ Cipriani lauds himself as an ‘avid gambler, activist and prolific philanthropist’ who has assumed the self-anointed role to rid the world’s gaming floors of other high-stakes gamblers Cipriani deems a threat to the industry.”