Las Vegas Sun NewsThe Palms agrees to pay $1 million to settle drug, prostitution charges
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11 January 2013
4:08 p.m.
Updated
11 Jan. 2013 6:15 p.m.
Two men arriving at the Moon Nightclub last March asked an employee to help them find women willing to have sex with them. Cost wasn't a concern, the customers said. The nightclub host complied. The cost to the Palms Casino Resort will be more than $1 million in fines and fees to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The men being offered prostitutes and drugs by nightclub hosts, security guards and bottle runners turned out to be undercover officers. The Gaming Control Board today detailed the activity in a 17-count complaint involving Moon, the former Rain and Ghostbar nightclubs, along with ...
This is everywhere in sin city! $78,000 for investigations? Sounds like fun.
What a waste of taxpayer money. Police need to spend time dealing with violent and white collar crime.
Having a good time in Las Vegas is what Las Vegas is about.
You want a better Las Vegas economy, then stop hiding the truth.
Chunky says:
He finds it quite interesting that the Palms is fairly well known in the production world for renting out suites for music videos and television production while turning a blind eye to open consumption of drugs!
Obviously there was a price on everything there!
That's what Chunky thinks!
Could just be a way for the LLC holding company to muscle out the Ni9e group & a lot of the sketchy characters associated w/them ie "security employees."
I agree this is nothing new & happens all over town in every casino every nite of the week.
Niteclubs by their very nature are magnets for every vice know to man & likewise attract employees who try to augment their income by providing said sensations.
Not sure if Maloof can find any choirboys to hire in Las V.
With undercover-these clubs are all put on notice. There's more to come.
Legalize Prostitution, tax it, fight off the pimps and provide (mandatory) health care for the women! This is the way to go. There will always be prostitution, but it is up to us to decide, if it happens in a criminal setting or not.
Chunkster: You're being sarcastic in your first paragraph, right? There's nothing shocking about the intersection of drugs and entertaiment.
There's a price on any- and everything you can possibly imagine in your most fevered dream in this town.
Whoops - got caught. Fine should have been lots more. How many other joints, especially the big dogs on the Strip, do the same thing? My guess - all of them. Let's not forget why high roller 1% types come here.
Art is correct, a million is what drugged out people with hookers on their arms lose in a weekend. Don't people watch the "Vegas" TV show? Savino would be proud, but he would have detected the undercover people.
Legalize all this and tax it. Portugal has legalized drugs with great success. The cops should go live with the Taliban in Pakistan.
What a joke . Sin city? Hah! A million is chicken feed to these clubs. For some,its lees than 1 weeks income . Drugs,booze and hookers,its all part of the 'vegas mystique' . The 'bus' is just a smoke show. Some 'feel good' media,and some money in their budgets. Nothing will change! Nothing! Money buys everything,especially in vegas. The 'agents' should be finding some real criminals,oh,i forgot,there is no $$$$ in it for them.
Drugs and prostitution in Las Vegas. My God! What is this world coming to?
If you don't like whores and drugs move to Utah.