IRS Agents shut down gambling at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas!
 

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/st...011004793.html

By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 10, 2004

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A landmark hotel-casino was closed indefinitely Saturday after federal agents shut down the casino floor and seized an estimated $500,000 to pay for unpaid employee benefits.

The front doors were locked and yellow police tape greeted visitors to Binion's Horseshoe Hotel & Casino, a downtown Las Vegas fixture for 52 years and home to the wildly popular World Series of Poker.

"It's the end of an era," said Jim DiGiorgio, an adult film director who was among the guests told to find a new hotel Saturday.

Some 900 Binion's employees were left without work after owner Becky Binion Behnen agreed to close the property until she could find enough money to reopen it, said Keith Copher, chief enforcement officer of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

Gamblers watched in disbelief Friday night as U.S. marshals shut down the casino floor. The agents were enforcing a court order against the property, which has not paid about $3 million in pension and health insurance benefits since last summer for an estimated 400 union employees, said D. Taylor, secretary-treasurer of Culinary Union Local 226.

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unreal

whoops :glugglug

But $3Mill can't be much for a casino to payout ?

How soon until the left starts blaming Bush for shutting down Binion's?

:Graucho

I dont see the problem. Pay your fucking debts and you won't be shut down. They should know this after 50+ years. The employees are the backbone then they fuck them. They deserve to be punished.

The problem is its a double edge sword. The current employees will be without work while this gets sorted out. I wonder why assets werent frozen instead of shutting the place down. It makes it harder for them to satisfy a debt when they are shut down.

I think that was the hotel,my friend was staying at for the avn. I have call and find out .

2 organizations you just don't ever fuck with in life.

1. Unions

2. The IRS

Never ever ever ever. They both wield the biggest baseball bats around.

IRS agents???

The IRS didn't shut the place down.. the federal marshalls did.. They aren't IRS agents...

They were shut down for reasons other than payroll taxes owed..

Not an IRS action..

During Internext I know some webmasters who gambled there.

It wasnt closed...

Don't fuck with Wyatt Earp's boys either.

http://www.cowboyparts.com/gunfight/earplarge.jpg

They need to learn how to shave.

:BangBang: IRS

Where will the WSOP be held now if they don't find an investor to keep the place open?

That's what they get for fucking with ole Jack.

Idiot!

With the popularity of poker, i'm sure they won't have a problem finding a new home. One of the bigger Casino's will probably step up.

http://www.freeuploads.co.uk/uploads/casino_l.jpg


Larry has been waiting 4 months to play. He's been in that same seat since. Sept. Please someone at LFP break the news to him.

They deserve it. Don't fuck with the union.

Damn...there goes the single deck black jack tables:glugglug