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Suggestion Box: Cash up front

Las Vegas Weekly Staff

Thu, Sep 10, 2009 (midnight)

It seems every jackass with a checkbook is using Las Vegas as their personal piggy bank, the latest donkey being billionaire financier Sir Allen Stanford, who’s in the hole for more than $250,000 at Bellagio earlier this year. Turns out the tool’s also in trouble for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $7 billion, which, we’re guessing, will seriously affect the possibility of ever recouping that quarter mil. Come on, guys! Times have changed, revenue is down, and you cannot afford this kind of blind faith anymore. Cash up front. Repeat after us ...

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