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Casino cage cashiers are among the employees the IRS hopes will heed its request to report suspicious transfers of large amounts of cash.
Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
Conflict of interest?
Although the rapid response approach makes sense for law enforcement, it seems in conflict with the atmosphere of privacy and adult freedom cultivated by Las Vegas casinos. Some industry observers say there’s a disincentive to report big spenders — especially now that times are tough. It’s a theory rejected by Paul Camacho, special agent in charge of criminal investigations for the IRS in Las Vegas.Several months ago, the Internal Revenue Service agents who investigate financial crimes in Las Vegas began calling big casinos to set up meetings with their employees.
The calls were friendly.
In fact, the IRS — battling a bumper crop of white-collar crime — needed the casinos’ help.
The feds were asking floor workers to drop a dime and report suspicious people gambling with lots of money.
Since the 1980s, Nevada casinos have filed thousands of reports containing the names, Social Security numbers and other identifying characteristics of customers suspected of laundering money or simply gambling with ill-gotten funds. Those figures are rising in the recession and appear to coincide with increased financial crimes across the country.
“A lot of people come to Vegas to live large ... including a small group of people who engage in crime,” said Paul Camacho, IRS special agent in charge of criminal investigations in Las Vegas. “Mortgage fraud and Ponzi schemes have added a new dynamic. This isn’t just the drug dealer, pimp or organized crime figure. It’s the guy who stole the money from the church or from grandma.”
By all accounts, Nevada casinos are fulfilling their basic duties under federal anti-money laundering laws requiring them to report customers who bet, deposit or buy-in at the cage for $10,000 or more or engage in suspicious-looking gambling transactions of at least $5,000, such as exchanging cash for checks without gambling. The latter is probably the more valuable tool for law enforcement because it obliges casino employees to make expert, on-the-spot judgments of suspicious transactions.
After years of interacting with gamblers, casino workers are skilled readers of body language and financial funny business, the IRS says.
Still, the reporting process is fraught with pitfalls. Many casino employees — unaware that such reports are reviewed by the IRS to catch crooks — view reporting as pointless busywork.
“If you don’t think your job has any value, you’re not going to be passionate about it,” Camacho said.
The meetings with gaming workers were not a mere public relations effort by an agency that has suffered from a disagreeable image in Las Vegas, where casino workers once fought against taxing tip income and endured mass audits for underreporting tips.
Instead, the IRS had a practical and upbeat message for casino employees: If you see something suspicious, call us before a suspect gambles or disposes of illegal money.
Rather than waiting for Suspicious Activity Reports to roll in from casinos, which have 30 days to act, the IRS wants employees to phone right away.
Reports can be telling
Nevada casinos filed 3,204 reports in 2008 — a record — compared with 2,563 in 2007. Casinos filed 1,628 reports in the first six months of 2009. (Figures for the second half of the year aren’t yet available.)
Reports can red-flag a gambling stash that doesn’t mesh with a customer’s tax returns, or alert authorities to a pattern of suspicious transactions, such as large wire transfers, that could indicate a scam.
Without promptly hearing about them, such incidents might not be reviewed until months later by the IRS field office — which sits on a Suspicious Activity Report review committee that meets monthly to pore over the reports and includes agents from law enforcement agencies including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Nevada Gaming Control Board.
A tipoff from the front lines, the IRS says, would let agents watch gamblers spend money and interact with others in the casino — first-person evidence to build the government’s case against a corporate embezzler, drug smuggler or ordinary thief.
To speed the process, the IRS assigned agents to specific Strip casinos and distributed the agents’ phone numbers to casino workers.
The IRS is also asking casino employees to Google the names of customers making large or suspicious-looking transactions to determine whether they’re under investigation.
Tipoffs win results
Actual money laundering is uncommon in big Nevada casinos, but Camacho said wealthy scam artists often come to Las Vegas for the same reasons as fun-loving tourists: To enjoy a pampered escape in a town where big wads of cash don’t raise eyebrows.
Some notorious cases involved years of gambling before suspects were arrested — inviting questions about whether employees would have known of their customers’ illegal activity based on their gambling history or other behavior while in Las Vegas.
Federal prosecutors allege a Fry’s Electronics executive solicited kickbacks from vendors eager to sell their products at Fry’s stores, then wired $121.8 million into accounts controlled by MGM Grand and Las Vegas Sands over nearly four years to finance a high rolling lifestyle. The executive, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, pleaded not guilty last year, and the case is ongoing.
An aerial tour of the Las Vegas Strip.
San Francisco tax accountant Roberto Heckscher, prosecutors say, initiated one of the longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history, bilking working-class families and the elderly for tens of millions and financing regular trips to Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Atlantic City as early as the 1980s. He was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty.
State and federal authorities won’t say whether transaction reports contributed to these arrests, although their gambling activity probably would have generated Currency Transaction Reports for deposits of more than $10,000 in a 24-hour period.
There’s evidence that more open lines of communication with the IRS, which is also sharing information on criminal suspects with the Gaming Control Board, is having an effect.
Quick action by Mandalay Bay, for example, helped the IRS indict a man last month on suspicion of gambling with money investors wired to the casino as part of a sports betting scheme. As a result, authorities hope to return some of the nearly $1 million they allege Yul Na, who is at large, scammed from investors.
What of Vegas’ rep?
Although the rapid response approach makes sense for law enforcement, it seems in conflict with the atmosphere of privacy and adult freedom cultivated by Las Vegas casinos.
Casinos typically seek bank information and a credit history on customers who obtain markers — interest-free gambling loans that are enforceable like checks, with demands for immediate repayment — to make sure the individual can repay the loan. But investigations usually end there.
Further, the casino workers who typically file transaction reports don’t have direct relationships with the gamblers in question, as they may only grant markers or dispense cash to players. Casino hosts, on the other hand, get to know players and cater to their needs. Hosts are marketing agents for casinos rather than finance employees involved in point-of-sale transactions subject to suspicious activity reporting. More important, they often are compensated based on how much their customers spend, putting them in potential conflict with policies that question the gamblers’ funding sources.
Some industry observers say there’s a disincentive to report big spenders — especially now that times are tough.
To imply that casinos harbor a “den of thieves” is disrespectful and incorrect, Camacho said.
Although casinos obviously want to protect players’ privacy, they are legally obligated to report large and suspicious transactions, he said.
Strip executive Bruce Aguilera says he takes this obligation seriously.
Actions worthy of a Suspicious Activity Report are so sporadic that the new arrangement “does not significantly impact casino operations,” said Aguilera, vice president and general counsel of Aria and Bellagio. “This is simply a matter of picking up the phone and making one call.”
Financial ramifications
The casinos’ attorneys, controllers, cage managers, surveillance employees and compliance officers were among those who attended a recent meeting with the IRS, which has also met with employees of all MGM Resorts International’s Southern Nevada properties.
Some industry observers say the IRS’ desire for immediate action raises financial concerns for casinos that are struggling in the recession.
“The last thing the casino wants is IRS agents showing up” and nosing around its property, Las Vegas gaming attorney and former Nevada regulator Greg Giordano said. “This isn’t great for repeat business and may have a chilling effect on gambling. Who isn’t scared of the IRS when it comes calling?”
Casinos, he said, have to weigh the risk of alienating customers against suspicions that they are gambling with illicit funds.
Like banks and other cash-rich businesses that file such reports, casinos don’t have a duty to investigate whether funds are legit. Nor are they in the business of catching criminals.
“There are conflicting interests here,” Giordano said.
But Camacho said his office, which mostly investigates crimes that don’t involve casinos, “doesn’t want visitors to feel the IRS is watching their every move. Because we are not.”
Casino workers still need the buy-in of executives to blow the whistle on customers — an intimidating prospect for an employee afraid for his job amid a recession, said David Schwartz, director of UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research.
An aerial tour of the Las Vegas Strip.
“It’s definitely a laudable goal to detect financial crimes,” Schwartz said. “But it raises a lot of questions about what is suspicious. Bernie Madoff, as despicable as he is, would seem like he got his money legitimately, as he passed himself off as a successful investor.”
Might gamblers just leave?
And what of the employee who accuses a potentially innocent patron of suspicious behavior? The customer, Schwartz said, might take his gambling dollars elsewhere or retaliate against his accusers.
Many suspicious activities, regulators say, are clear-cut, such as exchanging a high volume of small bills for larger ones, presenting false IDs or buying in for amounts just under the $10,000 threshold.
“I don’t care who you are — a suitcase full of 20s is suspicious,” said Jerry Markling, chief of the Gaming Control Board’s enforcement division.
Some Nevada casinos will refuse offers to exchange cash for checks or larger bills when no gambling has occurred — the equivalent of an anonymous banking transaction. Before casinos became subject to federal cash reporting rules in 1985, Nevada and New Jersey — the only two states with casinos at the time — were hotbeds for money-laundering activity by criminals who exchanged mountains of cash for checks or big bills.
That changed when customers had to identify themselves to deposit or exchange large amounts of money, although criminals — especially in smaller casino states with less regulatory oversight — will still attempt to launder money, regulators said.
Aguilera said his properties share a common interest with the IRS to prevent and detect criminal activity.
“Keeping the lines of communication open and providing access to the agency is a win-win for both sides,” he said. “We are highly motivated to identify individuals who are engaged in fraudulent activity and who attempt to use our business as a channel to facilitate criminal acts.”
Casinos face penalties
Casinos that fail to report such transactions are subject to civil penalties of $25,000 per report or the amount involved in the transaction, whichever is greater. They also may be fined $25,000 per day for failing to establish or implement an adequate money-laundering prevention, including one that requires employees to track multiple transactions by one individual in a day.
Penalties for casinos that fail to report suspicious activity are few and far between, however.
The most recent was a $1 million fine in 2006 against tribal-owned Tonkawa Bingo and Casino in Oklahoma. The casino accepted $50 million in racing wagers from people with alleged ties to organized crime, including a transaction involving a duffle bag containing $300,000 in $100 bills that were deposited in multiple accounts to avoid reporting thresholds, federal authorities claimed.
An aerial tour of the Las Vegas Strip.
No Nevada casinos have been fined in recent memory, although they frequently received small fines in the thousands of dollars for inadvertently failing to follow Nevada’s now-defunct “prohibited transactions” rule, which outlawed certain kinds of transactions of $3,000 or more. Since July 1, 2007, Nevada casinos have followed federal rather than state-authorized reporting rules. Once-frequent fines for procedural errors have disappeared — perhaps because the $10,000 threshold — long a part of the federal statute governing U.S. businesses of all types — is a higher standard that is easier to follow and enforce.
The Treasury Department has never fined Nevada casinos for failing to report suspicious-looking transactions, nor have the casinos been forced to forfeit money gambled by individuals who got the money by illegitimate means.
Bill Eadington of UNR’s Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, thinks that casinos don’t officially report all suspicious actions because “they’d rather side with customers” when there’s uncertainty.
Although casino executives may be eager to root out potential criminals gambling on property, rank-and-file employees may be operating under the perception that they should only concern themselves with the bottom line, he said.
“There may be little upside to being a good public citizen.”
Employees want to do the right thing but may not be sure how, which is why the IRS is talking with lower-ranking employees about the importance of filing the reports and what kinds of activities it is red-flagging, said Steve Osborne, a supervisory IRS special agent who oversees the Suspicious Activity Report review team. “Casinos in this town really do want to be good corporate citizens and understand that allowing crime to occur, and turning a blind eye to it, is really to their detriment,” Osborne said.
Appealing to employees’ personal ethics can be a powerful motivator, according to Camacho.
“We get angry talking to victims and hearing how evil these (thieves) are,” he said. “You don’t want your casino to be the place where this criminal gambled away people’s life savings.”
i can really see someone reporting a big tipper covered in tattoos with tacky clothing from russia or the casino wanting to report a big cash player..
we all know casinos are used to launder money, but in reality do they care? after all the casinos can make at least 40% on this money
First the IRS audits casino workers tips then expects them to turn in high rollers.
Even people who arent criminals should be concerned the IRS is lurking in the casino watching you, creepy!
Here we go, we are going to throw the baby out with the bathwater and complain that gaming revenue has dropped again. Another nail in the gaming coffin.
maybe the IRS should join up with the FBI and hunt down Bin Laden...
It's not the casinos' business to be IRS narcs. If government can't do its job it should be dismantled and replaced with one that actually respects We the People and our freedoms -- you know, what it was originally constituted to do.
"[The law] has placed the collective force in the service of those who wish to traffic, without risk, and without scruple, in the persons, the liberty, and the property of others; it has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1850 "The Law"
Chunky says:
Chunky doesn't necessarily trust banks, financial institutes, large corporations or the government anymore.
Cash used to be king and now the use of cash becomes suspect by the IRS because it's hard for big brother to keep tabs on it and you that way?
It's just another way for the government which is a tool for big corporations to force our money into their "system" where they systematically bleed you a penny, nickle, dime at a time.
Don't get Chunky started on what this kind of "insider snitching" will do to our already hobbled casino industry in Las Vegas.
Go to YouTube and search for the short video of the late George Carlin's Words To The World.
That's what Chunky thinks!
great way to keep the "whales" coming....
A few weeks ago you had an over reactive Costco employee helped get a West Point grad killed.
Isn't is comforting to know that a minimum wage casino employee is now encouraged to call some IRS hot line if they think your body language is suspicious?
Whats up with this poster "vegas is crap"? I read your previous posts. You are angry my friend. Let me guess you were visiting and picked a tranny in the lobby who turned you out.
Is it true that BorisR is a banker from Switzerland? Keep an eye out for that person. As a high rolling penny slot specialist, I have seen him lose
$406,000 in one day using max coin. Where does he get this $$$?
VEGAS_IS_CRAP says :
"The Nazi IRS is watching you in Vegas.
Another reason not to visit Vegas.
Another nail in the gaming coffin."
That's for sure!! If this isn't a case of big brother watching, then I don't know what is!! This is an outrage, bordering on unconstitutionality and police state tactics..
Read the article and pay attention folks. This is NOTHING NEW. They have been reporting large cash transactions since the 1980's in Casinos. Anything over 10k is going to get you reported on paper and if you look flaky then they are going to call. Not new at all. As far as "Vegas is crap" he has no life so he hangs out here complaining about a town he don't like or can't afford to come to.
Disband the IRS!!!
There's a big MONEY GRAB afoot...
The IRS will become MORE massive & MORE powerful & MORE Nazi-like; "We The People" are going to pay and pay and pay, because, according to the IRS, we owe & owe & owe...
Now, off to WORK you go!!!
*"I don't know anymore
Are the neighbors watching me
Well is the mailman watching me
And I don't feel safe anymore, oh what a mess
I wonder who's watching me now?
Who?
The IRS?"
*Rockwell.
Where's the "racial profiling" crowed on this? Who do you think is more likely to get a dime dropped on them by a cage worker; a white guy with stacks of 100 bills or a hispanic guy with a stack of c-notes?
Vegas has always turned a blind eye to money laundering and dirty money. Remember the Mexican meth king who got a rolls royce as a gift from the Venetian? He was bringing in meth ingredients from China, his home country, and had a huge meth manufacturing business in Mexico.
T.S.
The underground or 'cash' economy always grows when taxes are increased, which is what is already happening, and will continue big-time in the coming months. This is one reason why tax revenues stagnate or actually go down when taxes are increased. The IRS knows this. But instead of having agents with good government pay and great wages ferret out the cheats, they want to enlist, at no pay or wages, poor casino workers to do the job for them. Hmmm. Workers turning in their neighbors to the authorities. Sounds like Stalin's Russia.
Think the casinos really care about whether their high rollers are drug dealers and sweat shop owners? I'd bet that people at the Venetian knew this guy was a drug dealer. But I guess this doesn't count as money laundering--getting a Rolls from the Venetian?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/2...
vegaslee--Did you read the article? Did you understand it? Nothing new????
Give me a break...Like a cage worker is going to report this...isnt this why they have cameras?
The only difference is Banks have you fill out a form on anything over $10k - in or out..thats been the norm for years..
RAVENB - I totally agree..
Cash is now king and after all the banking screw-ups with BofA, Wall Street, etc,,,I am turning to all cash as soon as I can, and it wont be in a bank earning .002% in any of their accounts...
The bit dogs always bark the loudest.
Exchange 20s for gold, exchange gold for a check, deposit the check, money is laundered. Why bother with a casino?
I have to think that if someone is going to launder a lot of money they are going to deal with an insider at a smaller casino and launder the money by the duffel bag full, not with some cage worker.
Remember this is the REID-obama thugs that have been trying to destroy the United States of America the last 40 years yet what they do under the cover of darkness is hide from the resident of NEVADA and the USA. Obama from day one! wanted to destroy the economy of Las Vegas.
VOTER NO on both Reid in NOV. It is time to send them back to Seachlight.
This will really hurt the casinos because I bet a good portion of their revenues were from gamblers with questionable sources of money.
We're watching you with suspicious eyes --
Sorry Madame you must reveal to us your SS number before we're allowed to pay your winnings --
Regulated gaming --
A Fool's game --
Who needs it?
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maybe the IRS should join up with the FBI and hunt down O B A M A...
This is a great tool for all the Wynn dealers, and pit bosses, and floor people can now use. Because they split tips with the floor people and pit bosses, the same people that do the paper work and responsible for reporting to the IRS. They can get rid of the none tipping pain in the a?? players they don't want to deal with anymore. Good reason the Feds should not allow casino management being part of a toke pool.
Big Brother is Watching...
This is just like Nazi Germany in it's beginning.
D.C. is out of control...
Perhaps the IRS should be focusing on all of the stimulus money and where the kickbacks went. $800 Billion certainly did not make it to Main Street.
Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some 25-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number.
Borris from Moldova
Obama needs more stimulus money to waste.
Criminals reporting criminals...no wonder everyone is paranoid.
That's the way the SS worked in Nazi Germany...everyone is a cop.
Whats next???
As a foreigner coming to Las Vegas in September, I feel it is my duty to self-report to the IRS. I will be bringing $300.00 in gambling stake cash, expecting to lose in in a six day period.
I must also admit that the source of the cash is illicit. I am a recently retired lawyer and specialized in ripping off widows and other senior citizens. In fact, my business cards, in compliance with the Canadian truth in commerce laws, stated that "I NEVER MET A SENIOR I COULDN'T SWINDLE".
Are things so bad now in Las Vegas that even I am considered a "whale"?
You RATS want tips? Get it from the i.r.s. here is a tip for you, keep your trap shut.
This article is retarded.
It's called a Title 31 audit. It must be done by accountants at each casino at least annually. The form to report suspicious behavior is a SARC (suspicious activity report). The SARCs are sent to the casino only if players appear to be cashing out large amounts of chips without playing or if they are cashing checks, then not gambling. All the forms aren't sent to the IRS. The casinos have to look into the players and see if there was suspicious and shady stuff going on.
The casino MUST track large cash transactions (generally over $3,000). At $10,000, a Currency Transactions Report is filed (CTR). It's all in the federal regs, ladies.
This article is about as ridiculous as the one on Gillespie forming a campaign to get his cops to wear seatbelts.
Follow the rules! No more, no less.
I hope the IRS at least bought lunch for the peons.
Ok, I'm posting a target on my back... I think most of you are making a bigger deal of this than it is. There are jokes about hunting Bin Laden but I've often wondered about how easy it would be to launder money and mask a paper trail thru Vegas. We do have SAR's, CTR's and BSA (Bank Secrecy Act)reports everywhere. The IRS isn't asking the the guy at the craps table to report the man slipping a green chip into his pocket.
On the other hand, trust is hard to get. We allow wire-tapping for serious crime and then use the intel collected to bust a pot-smoking kid. I guess that's the green chip sliding into the pocket.
All-in-all, the IRS is asking for people to use some common sense and report truly suspicious behavior. It's that "common sense" thing, though that seems to always get out of whack. Kind of like a cop writing a ticket for somebody going 57 in a 55 once he has the authority to do so and can find a judge who will enforce his new powers.
Another reason to go to Macau.
......."There may be little upside to being a good public citizen."
Employees want to do the right thing but may not be sure how".......
Let's cut to the chase; IRS would be wise to offer 10% of all proceeds obtained in a successful prosecution to the cage worker or ticket writer who reports the miscreants.
acountmakr---You might want to brush up on your reading comprehension. The story tells far more than your post.
IRS urges casinos, please !!!! The f--cking casinos are hurting enough as is. How about Obama coming back to Vegas and taking a job at a Subway or driving a taxi to see what the REAL people are experiencing. IRS chief is Timothy tax-cheat, ex-Fed Reserve NYC Geithner. Who the heck is going to listen to this Federal pig? Hope and change my a-s-s.
Don't let casinos take advantage of you! I got sweated trying to cash in $3000 worth of chips at a local casino after a nice blackjack session. They tried to not to pay me unless I showed ID. I told them to go pound sand. After a brief stand off they paid. Jerks.
Check out my always entertaining LV blog:
http://jimmyhoofa-lv.blogspot.com/
Jimmyhoffa--If your story about the chips is true, why don't you name the casino?
What should casino employees do if they see former city employees from Bell, Calif gambling?
I cashed in a number of slot payout tickets at NY, NY in 2005 and it was just over $3,000 and they made me pull my ID, and Players Card.
Puleeeeeze!
How many times have you seen the 'suspicious' sports book? Like the chubby chick with cell phone - who flip-flops up to the desk and plunks down $9K on the Lakers 5 minutes before the game? Or the "La-Eme" dude who methodically converts wads of ratty $5/10/20's into to chips (or slot tickets) then back to cash and walks out of the casino with crisp new 100 bills? There are virtual armies of these examples hitting the casinos on a daily basis and impossible to stop them at this stage.
Memo to the Federal Government:
When you merge the sanctuary-city with the sanctuary-casino you have a virtual factory of money laundering and criminal conduct!
Do your job at phase ONE instead if waiting for a phone call from a snitch at stage NINE!
Hayzeus H on his pogo stick. The same people who are whining about the IRS are the same people who whine that "The riiiiiich dooooon't payyyyy their faiiiiir share!!!!", when the IRS tries to collect the fair share they whine about that too.
Gmag and enviro, I am so glad you recognize that the tax laws are unfair. I look forward to your agreement when your side tries to pass higher taxes to pay for the drunken sailor money they are currently piling up, setting a match to, and burning up.
On and logic_should_rule, Jimmy's story is true. Casinos do ask for ID when cashing out, most at $5K, but some still use the old $3k standard. He is also correct in that they completed the transaction as ID is only required at $10K. But just for Jimmy's attitude, I would have filed a suspicious report on him. Obviously, he is hiding something because he told me to go pound sand just for doing my job. To thugs like Jimmy I say enough is enough, kiss my hairy white ass.
Let's see, I'll show up in my Chevy Malibu, Self park, Get a room at the IP for $25, go play the quarter slots with $20, maybe win 20, maybe lose 20. Maybe go find a 3/2 $5 Blackjack game off the strip and play awhile. Then we'll go to dinner and spend maybe $40-50 (may even use a coupon).
I think we're safely below the radar on this one!
"Gambling brings the seedy and greedy together."
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Is this like a "neighborhood watch" type thing?He did it,she did it type thing? I'd like to see a dealer...any dealer bite the hand that feeds them...DA!!I agree with some of the posts here...this is THEIR JOB (IRS),not the minimum wage people on the line.Give me a break.They stand to loss everything in the process not the IRS.Too many things can go wrong being a "snitch".You never know who's on the other side of that table throwing down the bets.Let management eye ball them or the pit bosses.
Who Cares... This is a good example of "passing the buck" as in having someone else do the job that you are paid to do... How much does it pay for someone to snitch on another with big cash... This town revolves around cash money playing at all levels of gambling...LMFAO... The IRS wants to bust balls on tips and then wants a tip.... Lets get real now.....lol
if the government can insert little strips of paper between a bill noting it's denomination, surely there is room for rfid technology.
Those are little strips of metal cch... the set off airport metal detectors, especially when the guys trying to avoid the IRS head to the caribbean, and figure they are free, but then find out that you can not travel with more than $10,000 of US cash money without declaring it... then again, if you've done nothing wrong, you got nothing to worry about, right? HAHAHAHAHA--NOT
The IRS wants our help?? HAA.. THATS a good one.. I dont think so.. Right now Im holding up a finger.. just one finger.
Chunks says:
He normally keeps his fingers to himself but will hold up one with "Seriously" as a show of support!
That's what Chunky is doing right now!
When this article appeared in the Sun, I posted that I was going to be coming to Las Vegas in September and wanted to report that I was bringing a $300.00 gambling stake.
Well, now I have returned from that trip. I lost $295.00 gambling, and must say that the slots were tighter than ever and were no fun to play.
Why should I travel 2,500 miles to lose my money so quickly? If Las Vegas does not substantially loosen its slots, it will never return to its pre-recession success.