Today, I was going to file my quota of one Steve Wynn story per every 24 hours, but what to make of this? Another court filing against Wynn has surfaced, as well as the disclosure that the Las Vegas Review-Journal knew about allegations involving Wynn in 1998 and 
quashed the story. (Ah, the high ethical standards of the Sherman Frederick era.) Not only did the paper require that the two witnesses in question undergo polygraph tests, standard practice at the National Enquirer — evidently at then-Editor Thomas Mitchell‘s behest — one of Frederick’s underlings ordered then-reporter Carrie Geer Thevenot to delete the story from the R-J‘s antiquated computer system. Thevenot, now metro editor, kept a hard copy of the story, saying she “always wanted to tell these women’s stories. That’s why I saved this file for 20 years.” Frederick is pleading amnesia. “It was hard enough to come forward in the first place and reveal this stuff to my family, and then to have the newspaper curb the whole story, I feel I got silenced,” says alleged victim Cynthia Simmons, who flunked the lie-detector test (she says she was under too much stress), although another, corroborative witness passed.
“According to a court document and interviews with multiple sources,” Wynn pressured one of his waitress for oral sex, offering such come-ons as he’d “never had a grandmother before” and wanted the experience. Ewwwwww! Too much information, Steve! “You have so many new and young girls to choose from, and you know having sex with you makes me feel terrible,” the 
anonymous victim responded, according to witness Earlene Wiggins (since deceased). “Why don’t you just leave me alone.” Because he’s Steve Wynn, that’s why. He’s alleged to have slapped her rear end twice in full view of customers. “‘I have eight children to support,” she says she pleaded. “I need this money. And it’s not right for the other cocktail waitresses,’ He only laughed. That’s what he does — laugh.” On three occasions she fellated Wynn — not forcibly, “[b]ut I felt so uncomfortable.”
Wonder why nobody has used the Wynn Resorts hotline to rat out Steve Wynn? When the grandmother in question went to her supervisor to complain, she was allegedly told to put out or lose her job. “I did it willingly, because I felt like I had to,” she will say of the forced fornication. “I didn’t really want to. I was afraid for my job.” In a mea culpa timeline published by the R-J, waitresses were dispatched to high-roller villas in 1995 and 1996. What was Wynn Resorts running? A casino or a white-slavery racket? (Wynn was not the only person being forcibly serviced, Wiggins alleged.) “Acquiescence is not consent. Even if someone goes along, it doesn’t mean they’re willing and enthusiastic,” Indiana University law professor Jennifer A. Drobac told the newspaper. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to see how Wynn keeps his job amidst all this, let alone his Massachusetts casino as the allegations continue to tumble forth.
If the R-J is tardily making amends for the ’98 cover-up, what’s the excuse for the deafening silence coming out of the Las Vegas Sun? It’s big gaming story is Luxor‘s new e-sports lounge, which is not exactly breaking news. As for Wynn, are you sticking to that story that it’s a massive conspiracy orchestrated by your ex-wife?
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