{"id":3127,"date":"2010-05-11T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T17:53:11","slug":"not-just-another-pretty-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/not-just-another-pretty-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just another pretty face"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Because of the relatively low base salaries drawn by CEOs of major casino companies, they’ve generally been exempt from mass-media scrutiny. However, the ways in which the compensation pot has been sweetened for Las Vegas<\/strong>‘ (or would that be China<\/strong>‘s?) two fiercest rivals has come under the microscopes of Forbes<\/em> and Morningstar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> CEO Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> is somehow able to justify a $2.45 million security detail, among profuse other goodies. For instance, Sands ponies up $67K of $118K Adelson owes in taxes for use of his own pair of 747s, which he leases out to Sands at a mere $6 million a year. Better still, the super-patriotic Adelson was careful to register ownership of his airborne behemoths through an offshore corporation.<\/p>\n

However, if there’s anything Adelson likes less than unworshipful media coverage it’s being ranked second to Steve Wynn <\/strong>… and it happened again. ABC News<\/strong> dubs Wynn “king of perks,” in part for his 62 grand in “merchandise discounts” and partly for his and Elaine Wynn<\/strong>‘s ability to renegotiate downward the price of the villas they own at Wynncore<\/strong>. What a rough life. No wonder Wynn and Adelson hanker for the entrepreneurial paradise that is Red China.<\/p>\n

Speaking of pretty faces<\/strong>, the headline-grabbing saga of Gov. Jim Gibbons<\/strong> and frequent textual partner Kathy Karrasch<\/strong> continues to take increasingly byzantine and mind-boggling turns<\/a>. Say what you like about Gibbons’ competence; he continues to provide Nevadans with unparalleled entertainment value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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