{"id":11823,"date":"2013-10-16T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T21:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2020-04-17T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T15:08:15","slug":"air-loveman-wiggle-room-in-macao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/air-loveman-wiggle-room-in-macao\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Loveman; Wiggle room in Macao"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Loveman<\/a>Anyone who meets Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> Chairman\/President\/CEO Gary Loveman<\/strong> is likely to be overcome by a strong whiff of self-importance. It’s not just palpable, it’s quantifiable. This week we learned that Caesars had spent lugging Loveman hither and yon, at a cost of $536K, supposedly for “security reasons.” Is Loveman too afraid of his own workforce that he doesn’t dare fly commercial? Or would be rather not mingle with the hoi polloi? I suspect it’s more of the latter than the former. Anyway, Caesars is trying to wriggle out of a $12 million tax bill for its air corps<\/a>, which is how Loveman’s half-million clams in free rides came to light.<\/p>\n

Macao<\/strong>‘s government has denied rumors that it’s going to lift its cap on \"Chui\"<\/a>table games in the enclave. What are the odds that one or more of the six casino operators started the rumor, perhaps in an effort to stampede Fernando Chui<\/strong>‘s administration? However, the local government is signaling its flexibility on the issue of croupiers from the mainland. Resident croupiers are dead set against it.\u00a0Secretary for Economy and Finance Francis Tam Pak Yuen<\/strong> has proposed a governmental policy that stops short of an outright ban, leaving the door open for non-resident croupiers down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who meets Caesars Entertainment Chairman\/President\/CEO Gary Loveman is likely to be overcome by a strong whiff of self-importance. It’s not just palpable, it’s quantifiable. This week we learned that Caesars had spent lugging Loveman hither and yon, at a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,62,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823"}],"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=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26788,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions\/26788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}