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A federal judge in California has tossed a bribery claim against Wynn Resorts<\/a> brought by a former salon manager at the Wynn Las Vegas. The plaintiff, Angelica Limcaco, also blew the whistle on Steve Wynn\u2019s alleged sexual misconduct 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Steve Wynn, above, has denied sexual misconduct allegations. However, he admits paying a former employee $7.5 million in 2006. (Image: Fox News<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Limcaco first sued Steve Wynn and the Wynn Las Vegas in 2018 in a Nevada federal court. That was shortly after a Wall Street Journal<\/em> article broke the now-infamous allegations<\/a> about the billionaire Wynn Resorts founder.<\/p>\n

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According to Limcaco, she approached senior management at the resort in 2006 to claim Wynn had raped and impregnated one of her salon employees. That employee is believed to be the woman to whom Wynn paid a $7.5 million settlement<\/a>, referenced in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> expos\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The existence of the payment was later confirmed by a Massachusetts Gaming Commission investigation into Wynn Resorts\u2019 suitability to hold a gaming license in the state.<\/p>\n

Wynn has always denied allegations of sexual misconduct. He claims sex with the woman he later paid off was consensual.<\/p>\n

\u2018Threatened, Fired, Blacklisted\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In her original complaint, Limcaco claimed that she was \u201cthreatened\u201d into silence by Wynn Resorts\u2019 then-vice president of hotel operations, Doreen Whennen, when she aired her concerns.<\/p>\n

When she escalated her complaint to then-president and COO of Wynn Las Vegas, Andrew Pascal, she claims she was abruptly fired and blacklisted from the casino industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judge Miranda Du dismissed the case in April 2020, ruling Limcaco had not made her claim within the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n

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The plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers had argued the statute should not apply. They claimed their client had been intimidated into silence at the time and had been emboldened to speak out by the Wall Street Journal<\/em> article. According to court documents, coworkers told Limcaco that Wynn “was more powerful than the police and that there may be people buried in the desert because of Mr. Wynn.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There is no apparent factual basis for that assertion.<\/p>\n

Suspicious Promotion <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Controversially, Wynn\u2019s lead counsel in the case, Elayna Youchah, was appointed a magistrate judge in US District Court in Nevada. That elevation took place soon after she filed a motion to dismiss Limcaco\u2019s complaint.<\/p>\n

Youchah removed herself from the case because of the appointment, which made her a colleague of the presiding judge, Miranda M. Du. The case was dismissed shortly before Youchah began her new job.<\/p>\n

In a petition to the court filed in March 2020, Limcaco\u2019s lawyers argued that the Youchah appointment raised \u201cserious questions regarding the District Court\u2019s ability to remain impartial.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then they did some digging. They found that Wynn Resorts had made payments to the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada (LACSN) that coincided with the dismissal of the case and Youchach\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n

The executive director of LACSN is the attorney and former Democratic leader of the Nevada Assembly, Barbara Buckley, who was also on the panel that selected Youchach for the magistrate position.<\/p>\n

Trial Moves to California\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Limcaco sued again, this time in California, alleging the LACSN payments were conditional on Youchach\u2019s selection. The lawsuit claimed there was a conspiracy to protect Wynn Resorts license in Massachusetts. It was then under scrutiny<\/a>, by having Youchach influence the decision in Nevada, shutting down Limcaco\u2019s initial complaint.<\/p>\n

But Senior United States District Judge Ronald Lew was skeptical of the theory, describing it as highly speculative.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelying on circumstantial allegations, Plaintiff asks the Court to infer that her Nevada Action would not have been dismissed on statute of limitations grounds. But Plaintiff must first plead sufficient factual content to \u2018make such an inference reasonable,\u2019\u201d Lew wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants argue, and the Court agrees, that Plaintiff\u2019s theory depends on an attenuated chain of causation that requires numerous implausibly speculative assumptions to link the LACSN payments to Plaintiff\u2019s alleged injury,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Lew also determined the case lacked standing in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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