This is Part II about the times, rise and fall of Steve Wynn. As you may recall, Part I ended:
Wynn had found the formula, a prescription that says the building is the star and if you can build a star building, they will come. But what building should it be, and at what cost? And where? Las Vegas? Or Atlantic City? And, later, what do you do for an encore besides build a hotel named Encore? Maybe learn some Chinese.” Now let’s go on to Part II.
The #meToo movement and events have touched many lives in the past six months. One of the most prominent men captured in it is Steve Wynn, who I first met in the fall of 1981 when as a member of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission we held the first plenary license hearing for the company he then presided over, the Golden Nugget Corp.
As I like to recollect, his attorney, former New Jersey State Senator and later New Jersey Superior Court Judge Martin (“Marty”) Greenberg asked this as Wynn took the witness stand: “Tell us about yourself Mr. Wynn” and a day and a half later he had completed his answer.
Of course there were more questions and cross-examination by the Division of Gaming Enforcement representing the Attorney General’s department. But it seemed like there was but one question and one answer because Steve Wynn is and always has been a magnetic personality, an evangelist for his industry, it’s “Elmer Gantry”, as you will discover in this very long, perhaps interesting piece (the mob is in it, that’s always interesting). Continue reading “#meToo, Et Steve”
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