Former Mandalay Resort Group boss Mike Ensign‘s payoff of his son’s mistress (which is under investigation for “structuring,” i.e., tax avoidance) is but one of many salacious matters that have brought Senate Ethics Committee staffers to Sin City. They got totally busted questioning castoff concubine Cynthia Hampton and local political fixer Sig Rogich at a Las Vegas hotel. (Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expects George Knapp.)
If they had a sense of humor, the senatorial sleuths would have done their grilling out in the boonies at the Gold Strike, where Sen. John Ensign used to be general manager. Come to think of it, if the Washington inquisitors had wanted to go unnoticed, they and their witnesses might have blended right in with the tourists at Ensign pere‘s old stomping grounds, Circus Circus. But if you want a bunch of local movers and shakers to stick out like a sore thumb, a sedate Marriott Suites hotel is just the place for it. Those guys from D.C. need to brush up on their undercover skills.
