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Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 | 1:16 p.m.
The owner of a bar where gaming agents reportedly witnessed patrons performing sex acts in public says she will be financially ruined if the Nevada Gaming Commission imposes harsh sanctions.
The State Gaming Control Board earlier this year filed a nine-count complaint against Judy R. Nelson, dba Las Vegas Eagle, a bar with a restricted gaming license allowing slot machines at 3430 E. Tropicana Avenue at Pecos Road.
The complaint, filed with the Nevada Gaming Commission, says that since July 2011 the board “has received numerous complaints regarding inappropriate activity” there and that agents found on Craigslist “sexually suggestive postings” for the bar featuring photos of genitalia.
Gaming and Clark County business licensing agents visited the bar and at various times through November 2011 and April of this year, and agents witnessed lewd activity, including a competition where five individuals bared their buttocks in public and other incidents in which patrons had sex in view of other customers, the complaint says.
Nelson, through attorney Robert Lueck, filed an answer to the complaint asking that if the commission determines the allegations are founded, her gaming license not be revoked. She asked that if any punishment is levied, it be a short probationary period and a small fine, if any.
The Clark County Business License Division imposed a six-month probation on her license in May, and there have not been any incidents since then.
The answer to the complaint said a substantial penalty by the Gaming Commission “would be financially ruinous” to Nelson and “would cause a loss of her only income outside of Social Security benefit.”
The commission has not set a date for a hearing on the complaint, which recommends a fine on each of the nine allegations and action against her gaming license.
In an previous interview, Nelson acknowledged there was some lewd activity at the bar during an April “underwear night” promotion and said she hadn’t approved of that conduct and was unaware of it until after the fact.
Since then, the answer to the complaint says, management changes have been made and security has been increased at certain times and events.
Nelson has “been licensed for more than 25 years in as many as six different bars in Las Vegas collectively totaling more than 80 years and has never had a Gaming Control Board problem until the current complaint,” the document says.
Aw geeeeeeez...let her go, let her be. Get drunk enough and it'll all look like Zumanity.
What a bunch of party poopers. Most of these politicians are dirtier than an infant's diaper.
Why are they making such a big fuzz over this.
So the Gaming Commission actually does have agents. And just like I thought they're simply a way for megacasinos to shut down what they've not been able to profit from yet!!! (OTHERWISE ON THE MAIN PLAZA OF PH HOW CAN 50OZ'S OF VODKA AND RED BULL SELL FOR ONLY, $28.00?!?!?!)
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Don't these politicians and gaming officials have better things to do - like
MAKING MORE JOBS AND NOT KILLING THEM.!
I agree. These "politicians" and "gaming control agents" really need to quit throwing the stones when they all live in glass houses. Do you really think this elderly (retired & in her 70's) grandma had anything to do with these "acts". Alot of sh@* goes on in public places that no one has control over including those in "authority". And god knows we can not even control our own police officers, priests, and school teachers. It is a gay bar! They are grown adults, and there are plenty of places to go if you don't like the atmoshpere there. I particularly don't care for Loud mouth, drunken, off duty cops... so I stay out of Mulligans! Simple
I find it interesting that only the little establishments get scrutinized. You don't think stuff like this doesn't happen at sleezy joints like the Palms or Hard Rock?
jaquekeno.
I normally ignore your misinformed posts but this one was to easy.
I guess you were not paying attention a couple years back when the Hardrock paid the largest fines in gaming history for these same type of actions.