{"id":1354,"date":"2009-11-17T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2022-05-06T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:25:00","slug":"case-bets-cullottas-moll-squeeze-on-sands-gay-old-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-cullottas-moll-squeeze-on-sands-gay-old-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Cullotta’s moll, squeeze on Sands, gay old UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local radio chatterbox Heidi Harris<\/strong> recently set her pants on fire attempting to rewrite history about a Mob terror campaign against then-Nevada Gaming Commissioners<\/strong> (one of whom went on to become Sen. Harry Reid<\/strong> [D-NV]). The evidence seems pretty unambiguous<\/a> but Harris — not one to stop digging once she finds herself in a hole — snuggled up to an old mafioso in hopes of receiving validation. Never mind that Frank Cullotta<\/strong> might have his own motives for pooh-poohing the historical record.<\/p>\n

Gov. Jim Gibbons<\/strong> flat-out lied about what happened to the families of Reid and George Swarts<\/strong>. But one expects that of the incorrigibly mendacious Midnight Jim. What Harris is doing is a subtler calumny because Cullotta’s testimony — by logical extension — paints the attempt on Swarts’ life as a fabrication, too. Harris is no Cullotta, however: She’s merely a character assassin.<\/p>\n

Caveat emptor<\/strong><\/em>. That’s stock gadfly Eric Jackson<\/strong>‘s advice to would-be buyers of Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> stock. He lays out a multi-point case<\/a> why LVS shareholders should be worried, very worried. Among the factors explaining CEO Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>‘s sudden sense of urgency to finish up his uncompleted Cotai Strip™<\/strong> (below<\/em>) hotels is that if they’re not done by the summer of 2011, Peking<\/strong> will nationalize all<\/em> of Sands’ Macanese properties. Besides, “Sheldon Adelson is known for slipping delivery deadlines<\/em>.” (Tell us about it!)<\/p>\n

\"CotaiStripMacau\"<\/p>\n

Another motivation for getting a move on in Macao<\/strong> (and Singapore<\/strong>) is that Sands is bumping up against the ceiling of its debt-to-cash flow ratios — ceilings which will get lower during the next 13 months. Other causes for concern are that one default by Adelson trips a series of additional ones … and that “roughly 10% of their recent $500 million in total cost savings Sands management boasted about<\/em>” went straight into the pocket of Dr. Miriam Adelson<\/strong>, thanks to a preferred-stock dividend.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe this<\/strong>. In another boneheaded move, I completely spaced out last night and forgot to cast my 20 online Dancing with the Stars<\/em> votes. If Kelly Osbourne<\/strong> is eliminated, you can pin the blame on me if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local radio chatterbox Heidi Harris recently set her pants on fire attempting to rewrite history about a Mob terror campaign against then-Nevada Gaming Commissioners (one of whom went on to become Sen. Harry Reid [D-NV]). The evidence seems pretty unambiguous … 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":[52,22,62,33,25,12,108,74,57,87,17,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"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=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31134,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/31134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}