Resorts World Las Vegas President Scott Sibella has been cleared in a virtually year-long investigation performed by the Nevada Gaming Management Board (NGCB) into his private relationships.
Resorts World Las Vegas President Scott Sibella’s repute stays intact after a Nevada Gaming Management Board investigation proved allegations in opposition to his character to be unfounded. Sibella has run the $4.3 billion Strip property because it opened in June 2021. (Picture: Las Vegas Assessment-Journal)
Final spring, a well known Las Vegas gambler, Brandon Sattler, a San Diego resident who frequented Sin Metropolis, filed a grievance with the state gaming regulator. Sattler contended {that a} convicted felon held a major possession place in Tacos El Cabron, a small eatery on the Resorts World Las Vegas grounds providing San Diego-style Mission burritos and tacos.
Nevada gaming legal guidelines prohibit convicted felons from proudly owning a 5% or extra stake in companies situated on the identical premises as a non-restricted gaming license similar to Resorts World. Nevada gaming legal guidelines don’t prohibit convicted felons from working in a licensed on line casino or related enterprise.
Sattler made his grievance after being banned from returning to Resorts World after he turned the topic of a class-action lawsuit. Traders in Sattler’s on line casino safety agency, SattCom Video, claimed he stole their cash to fund his playing behavior.
In his grievance to the NGCB, Sattler alleged that Sibella was an unruly character with whom he had beforehand partied. Sattler made claims that he and Sibella “partied,” “did medication collectively,” and “most likely had intercourse with a number of girls on the identical time.”
The $4.3 billion Resorts World Las Vegas opened in June 2021. The Strip’s latest from-the-ground-up on line casino in additional than a decade, the built-in resort options 3,500 resort rooms and a on line casino ground spanning 117,000 sq. toes with greater than 1,400 slot machines, 140 desk video games, and a sportsbook.
Case Dismissed
The NGCB mentioned its inner probe of Sattler’s claims relating to Sibella dispelled the allegations.
After an intensive investigation by the Nevada Gaming Management Board, the allegations by Brandon Sattler in opposition to Resorts World and its president, Scott Sibella, had been discovered to be unsubstantiated,” Board Member George Assad mentioned Monday.
Sattler mentioned David Stroj, who labored on the taco joint that Resorts World was informed was absolutely owned by David’s father, Peter Stroj, owned greater than 5% of the enterprise.
The youthful Stroj was convicted in a 2018 federal case for being concerned in an unlawful sports activities betting enterprise. Prosecutors mentioned he and different defendants ran an unlawful $10 million bookmaking community and laundered the operation’s proceeds via Las Vegas casinos, together with the Wynn and Bellagio.
Stroj later accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to a few years of supervised launch. The plea resulted in him being blacklisted from most Strip casinos. The NGCB didn’t advocate that Stroj be positioned on the state’s notorious “black checklist.”
Tacos El Cabron shuttered at Resorts World final Might.
Sibella Denied Allegations
Sibella was as shocked as anybody to find out about Sattler’s claims that he let unfastened with such a infamous Sin Metropolis determine, although he acknowledged he knew Sattler as a patron.
He’s been a buyer for 20 years,” Sibella mentioned final 12 months referencing his days working as president and chief working officer of MGM Grand, The Mirage, and Treasure Island. “However I don’t know him from Adam.”
In a ready assertion, Resorts World mentioned Sattler’s claims had been “maliciously false and unfounded.”
