{"id":25004,"date":"2019-09-30T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=25004"},"modified":"2020-10-19T06:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T14:55:54","slug":"odds-favor-trump-whistleblower-scandal-at-caesars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/odds-favor-trump-whistleblower-scandal-at-caesars\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds favor Trump; Whistleblower scandal at Caesars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> has an excellent chance of surviving both the present impeachment inquiry and the 2020 election. That&#8217;s not punditry: It&#8217;s oddsmaking. <strong>BookerMaker.eu<\/strong> places The Donald <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/trump-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/trump-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/trump-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/>as a 10\/1 long shot for being unseated. Ironically, Trump nemesis <strong>Nicholas Maduro<\/strong> of <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2019-09-27\/venezuela-is-collapsing-so-is-its-architectural-heritage?cmpid=BBD092719_CUS&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=190927&amp;utm_campaign=closeamericas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">despite everything he&#8217;s done<\/a>, is an even longer shot, at 16-1. The likeliest world leader to be deposed is Canada&#8217;s <strong>Justin Trudeau<\/strong>, at 5\/4, followed by <strong>Great Britain<\/strong>&#8216;s unpredictable\u00a0<strong>Boris Johnson<\/strong> at 3\/2. Said oddsmaker <strong>Angus Dagglass<\/strong>,\u00a0&#8220;While each leader is embroiled in their own political maelstrom, it&#8217;s the timing of the <!--more-->Canadian federal election that has placed Prime Minister Trudeau atop our list.\u00a0Thanks to his strong backing from <strong>China<\/strong> and <strong>Russia<\/strong> it&#8217;s surprisingly President\u00a0Maduro with the longest odds to be replaced, which just another reminder of what curious time we are living in.&#8221; Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Caesars Entertainmen<\/strong>t Regional President <strong>Kevin Ortzman<\/strong>, meet <strong>#MeToo<\/strong>. Ortzman <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/12\/caesars-executive-fired-after-ex-worker-suit-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been sacked<\/a> from the Roman Empire after a whistleblower complained about his &#8220;making out&#8221; with a subaltern. Ortzman runs two of Caesars&#8217; three <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> resorts but was deemed expendable by CEO <strong>Anthony Rodio<\/strong> following a August 9 meeting, the <em>New <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CAESARS-ENTERTAINMENT-LOGO-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CAESARS-ENTERTAINMENT-LOGO-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CAESARS-ENTERTAINMENT-LOGO-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CAESARS-ENTERTAINMENT-LOGO.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>York Post<\/em> reports. Complainant\u00a0<strong>Jocelyn Agnellini<\/strong> &#8220;feels vindicated,&#8221; sources say. Agnellini originally complained in May of 2017, but says the <strong>Mark Frissora<\/strong> regime feigned ignorance, while Ortzman said\u00a0\u201cthere will be hell to pay\u201d if he found out who&#8217;d filed the complaint. Angellini says she was consequently cut out of the loop in her department and subjected to a harassment campaign that didn&#8217;t end until last February, when she was fired. We applaud Rodio for moving with the times but he ought to go the extra mile and reinstate Agnellini. It&#8217;s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of discrimination, that and many other things are being alleged against the <strong>Golden Nugget<\/strong> chain, so much so that a Web site has been created to log the complaints. The most recent ones are &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five Latina women who worked at <strong>McCormick &amp; Schmick&#8217;s Steakhouse<\/strong> allege that they were sexually harassed by supervisors, treatment that included &#8220;repeated incidents of unwanted fondling and other lewd behavior.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>Saltgrass Steakhouse<\/strong> employee is suing for discrimination. A victim of chronic\u00a0pancreatitis, she was reportedly denied FMLA furlough.<\/li>\n<li>Three guests at the <strong>Golden Nugget Las Vegas<\/strong> &#8220;allegedly suffered serious injuries in their baths and showers when the glass doors fell of [<em>sic<\/em>] their hinges and shattered causing lacerations and wounds.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Two former <strong>Golden Nugget Lake Charles<\/strong> employees are suing for alleged shorting of their pay and forcible tip pooling &#8230; And that&#8217;s just for openers. <strong>Tilman Fertitta<\/strong>&#8216;s lawyers are really going to get to earn their money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> visitation was relatively flat in August, coming in at 3.6 million. Citywide, the occupant rate was 88% (89.5% on the <strong>Las Vegas Strip<\/strong>), while convention attendance was up 2% <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/LV-Strip-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/LV-Strip-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/LV-Strip-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/LV-Strip.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/>at 658,000, &#8220;with the rotation of some larger shows in and out of Las Vegas largely offsetting one another, and an increase in small and mid-size meetings.&#8221; Thus spake <strong>J.P. Morgan<\/strong>\u00a0analyst <strong>Joseph Greff<\/strong>. Strip room rates rose 6% to average $131\/night. That was good news considering that the market had to absorb 1,788 new rooms. Given the lack of uptick in visitation, August&#8217;s impressive gaming numbers look even more so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has an excellent chance of surviving both the present impeachment inquiry and the 2020 election. That&#8217;s not punditry: It&#8217;s oddsmaking. BookerMaker.eu places The Donald as a 10\/1 long shot for being unseated. Ironically, Trump nemesis Nicholas Maduro of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/odds-favor-trump-whistleblower-scandal-at-caesars\/\">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":[23,244,266,274,42,14,26,22,37,232,9,129,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25004"}],"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=25004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28591,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25004\/revisions\/28591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}