{"id":1181,"date":"2009-11-04T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T20:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2009-11-04T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T20:09:30","slug":"from-the-mailbag-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-mailbag-11\/","title":{"rendered":"From the mailbag #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader clipped the following from a recent <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> 10-Q. The passage in question refers to a disputed $400,o0o worth of work performed on <strong>Venetian<\/strong> President <strong>Rob Goldstein<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>pied a terre<\/em>. No wonder Mr. Goldstein lined up on <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>&#8216;s side of the recent power struggle within Sands &#8212; if he&#8217;s got a CEO who&#8217;s willing to make shareholders eat $400K in personal expenses that were not carried out &#8220;in an appropriate manner.&#8221; Where can the rest of us find bosses like that?<\/p>\n<table style=\"background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; color: #000000;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><strong><span>ITEM\u00a05\u00a0\u2014 <\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"115\"><\/a><strong><em><span>OTHER     MATTERS<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; color: #000000;\"><strong><span>Transaction     with an Executive Officer<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%; margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%; text-indent: 4%; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">As previously disclosed, during 2008, a subsidiary of the     Company performed work at a home owned by Robert G. Goldstein,     the Company\u2019s Executive Vice President. Mr.\u00a0Goldstein     believed, and the Company acknowledged, that some of the work     was not performed in an appropriate manner. The matter was     referred to an independent expert, who concurred about the     quality of the work and concluded that Mr.\u00a0Goldstein should     not be obligated to pay the $0.4\u00a0million incurred by the     Company for costs and overhead on the job. These findings have     been accepted by the Company and Mr.\u00a0Goldstein.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader clipped the following from a recent Las Vegas Sands 10-Q. The passage in question refers to a disputed $400,o0o worth of work performed on Venetian President Rob Goldstein&#8216;s pied a terre. No wonder Mr. Goldstein lined up on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-mailbag-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}