Quick Fact – Casino Swindlers

Aladdin Resort & Casino (Las Vegas, NV), Casino History, Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Cheating / Fleecing, Did You Know?, Gambling History, Gambling: Junkets, Gaming History, Las Vegas--Nevada, Nevada, Quick Facts, United States1 Comment

1974 It was a successful scam that cheated the Aladdin Resort and Casino out of about $250,000 (about $1.2 million today) … while it lasted. Four men had some friends take junkets to the Las Vegas property using the identities of legitimate high-rolling customers. (With a junket, the casino provides the guests’ travel, accommodations and meals…

Quick Fact – Publisher Unsuitable

Aladdin Resort & Casino (Las Vegas, NV), Did You Know?, Gambling License, Governing / Regulatory Bodies: Nevada Gaming Commission, Las Vegas Strip / S. Las Vegas Boulevard, Quick Facts2 Comments

1967 New York publisher, Lyle Stuart, applied to the Nevada Gaming Commission for a gambling license to purchase 1 percent of the Aladdin Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip for $25,000 ($178,000 today). Regulators, though, denied him one due to his “unsuitable background” because a subsidiary of his company sold books that contained…