{"id":841860,"date":"2022-09-28T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=31700"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:13:52","slug":"steve-wynn-is-so-busted-murder-at-ocean-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/steve-wynn-is-so-busted-murder-at-ocean-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wynn is so busted; Murder at Ocean Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Angry Florida<\/strong> man Steve Wynn<\/strong> will have to face the consequences<\/a> of carrying the ChiComms’ water. Having spurned a settlement in the Justice Department’<\/strong>s lawsuit for failing to register as a foreign agent, he could very well find himself a defendant in a courtroom (well, we can certainly hope). As you may recall, Wynn tried to get then-president Donald Trump<\/strong> to return Chinese defector and dissident Guo Wengui<\/strong> to the clutches of Xi Jinping<\/strong>. We can well imagine what would have happened to Guo and it’s nothing good. The Justice Department’s position is that Wynn was nakedly doing Beijing<\/strong>‘s dirty work in order to protect his Macao<\/strong> casino concession, which was coming due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Wynn’s contention is that he was merely a messenger boy for then-Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun<\/strong> and was “fully transparent.” Yes, he was transparent all right but not in the way that Wynn means. To its lasting credit, the Trump administration turned a deaf ear to Wynn’s pleas on behalf of his Chinese masters. Now El Steve must pay the piper. We’d rather seem him perp-walked for his sexual predation on Wynncore<\/strong> employees but will settle for seeing him pay his due for his China<\/strong> chicanery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of being in the clink, Philadelphia<\/strong> man Andrew James Osborne<\/strong> is in custody<\/a> for allegedly murdering Ocean Casino Resort<\/strong> customer Brian Wilkinson<\/strong>. The latter was found stabbed to death in an unspecified part of the Ocean premises. Everyone is being pretty tight-lipped about the case. Ocean prexy Bill Callahan<\/strong> has been presented with another stumbling block on his quixotic quest to make Ocean Atlantic City<\/strong>‘s top-grossing casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elsewhere on the Boardwalk, don’t bother tipping at the Golden Nugget<\/strong>\u2014at least if you’re getting take-out. Why? Because you’ll get hit with an 18% “gratuity charge” atop whatever you tip, payable in cash on the barrelhead. (In some cases, this is piggybacked onto a $1.99 “take-out charge.”) According to correspondence from Nugget boss Tom Pohlman<\/strong> that S&G<\/em> has obtained, “The new Union Contract mandates that we must charge a mandatory 18% gratuity for ‘Take Out’ orders for any non fast food outlets … The Gratuity is to be given to the team member that has primary contact with the guest.\u00a0If you asked a server about getting the 18% gratuity for take out\u2014of course they would not get it. \u00a0The person who handles take-out orders is the Cashier\/Navigator\u2014and they are the one who receives the 18% gratuity.\u00a0Gratuities are never allowed to be paid with ‘comps\u2014only cash or credit card.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As for the $1.99 take out charge\u2014that is a service charge for take-out orders and does not go to the team members.\u00a0According to the Union at the time of negotiations, guests were not leaving tips for take-out orders, and that was the reason for including the 18% gratuity. If there is anything else I can help you with\u2014please let me know.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So basically you have Unite-Here<\/strong> to thank for this poison pill. Pohlmann’s letter gives quite an insight into the recent contract negotiations … and how casinos like the Nugget were able to afford higher salaries. Mind you, the Nugget’s contract was negotiated after<\/em> most of the other casinos had come to terms and we’ve not heard of “gratuity charges” at any of the remainder, but that may just be a matter of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, a couple of glimpses of the crackerjack, spare-every-expense operation at Bally’s Atlantic City<\/strong>. First, the unstaffed “Rewards Hub”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… and then the fear-inspiring security force:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is it any wonder that we struggle to take Soo Kim<\/strong>‘s company seriously? If this is what Soo has in mind for the Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong>, be afraid. Be very afraid. And boy is Chicago<\/strong> in for a rude surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quote of the Day<\/em><\/strong>: “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”\u2014poet<\/em> e.e. cummings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angry Florida man Steve Wynn will have to face the consequences of carrying the ChiComms’ water. Having spurned a settlement in the Justice Department’s lawsuit for failing to register as a foreign agent, he could very well find himself a defendant in a courtroom (well, we can certainly hope). As you may recall, Wynn tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1728],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}