Paris Sports Book closed for now

[tourney guy]

What a total f&*^%ing joke. Harrahs officials know that all of their sports book employees get and pool tips. They do not compel the racebook employees to have tip compliance. Thus, it is up to each individual writer to claim the money themselves. The only way Paris executives would know if the writers were underreporting tip income is if they had access to tax returns, which I know they didn't.

This is some bullcrap CYA, and it is despicible.

If I had 50/month in tip income, and I added it to my tax return for 2005, why would HET rat me out to the IRS when in fact I have fully complied??

Much more here than than the BS statement from HET.

[bav]

Yeah, there's something weird going on. Maybe something like an organized effort to underreport by the entire bunch? Kind of a "we agree we will always report 40% of our actual tips" conspiracy. Something hadda happen that brought it to the attention of Harrah's management, and that makes it important to them. Something ilke a new employee gets hired and they tell him what the score is, and he tells his boss's boss? Or he gets threatened when he says "I won't do that--I'm going to fully report my tokes"? All very bizzare, and probably an interesting tale.

[grdred944]

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Yeah, there's something weird going on. Maybe something like an organized effort to underreport by the entire bunch? Kind of a "we agree we will always report 40% of our actual tips" conspiracy.

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Bingo! It had to be organized and my guess is it involves management of the book. If it is just a couple of low-level writers they would toss them and be done with it. This had to be at a level that made Harrah's consider the liability to the Company if they did nothing.

[boedeker]

or it was some way to launder money where people would come make bets in the sportsbook and tip large amounts and the ticket writers would kick back the money minus some percentage.