black eye on the agency<\/a>.<\/p>\nCritics have long lambasted the LVCVA’s robust annual budget, which was $358.15 million during the 2020 fiscal year. It’s been slashed, largely due to the coronavirus and a drastic drop in Clark County room taxes, by 43 percent. It now stands at $206.6 million for the 2021 FY.<\/strong><\/p>\nIn a 2017 probe by the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>, the media outlet found that the Authority expensed $700,000 on alcohol and $85,000 on “adult entertainment” during a three-year period.<\/p>\nWeekly was accused of taking his daughter on a trip to Dallas with $1,400 in Southwest gift card money. He returned the funds, but remains a commissioner and on the LVCVA board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cathy Tull, a former marketing executive at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), has settled her criminal case of misusing Southwest Airlines gift cards. Tull, 53, pleaded no contest in Las Vegas Justice Court to a misdemeanor charge of a being a public official who disobeyed laws regarding their conduct. Justice of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":147951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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