Question of the Day - 06 May 2018

As many of you have no doubt noticed, this is the fourth question in a row that we’re answering about the Steve Wynn situation. And, for perhaps obvious reasons, we saved this one for last.

Yes, we’ve received a few QoD submissions asking for our take on Wynn's guilt or innocence. But not as many as you might expect. One reason might be that Anthony Curtis addressed the issue in his column in the February Las Vegas Advisor, which perhaps answered the question for many readers.

“Wynn maintains his innocence, though the evidence seems damning and I can attest that stories about such activity have circulated around town for decades,” Anthony wrote. “Did he? Didn’t he? Whether he did or not, I trust that will be sorted out in upcoming legal wranglings."

Here, we can add that Wynn paid out a whopping $7.5 million settlement to a Wynn Las Vegas manicurist who accused him of pressuring her for sex. The size of the 2005 settlement reflects the fact that it also involved a paternity suit.

Also, as far as damning evidence goes, The Wall Street Journal, whose story broke open the floodgates, interviewed "dozens of people who have worked at Mr. Wynn’s casinos and told of behavior that cumulatively would amount to a decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Wynn.”

All that said, we believe that Anthony summed it up quite well when he wrote, "One thing’s for sure: The guy really knew how to build casinos ... Vegas will survive without Steve Wynn, but there will be at least a little something missing.”

To answer this question directly, we here at QoD think that it's likely that justice, whether mortal via court cases and/or conscience, or divine via karma and/or Judgment Day, will ultimately be served.