Nevada Gaming Board Prepping For Steve Wynn Sexual Harassment Hearing

The Silver State Gaming Control Board (GCB) is preparing for a long-awaited disciplinary auditory sense against former Wynn Resorts Ltd. CEO Steve Wynn on sexual harassment charges, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Tuesday. The hearing, to be held before the Nevada Gaming Commission (NGC), will commence at a futurity day of the month to live determined.

The GCB considers the upcoming auditory sense separate from a concluded matter inwards which Wynn Resorts was fined a enter $20 million past the NGC inward 2019. That was for flunk to inquire claims of sexual misconduct made against its former CEO before his 2018 resignation. However, the hearing is stock-still really a great deal related to the claims themselves. Dozens of women came forward to accuse the hotel magnate of victimizing them, inwards shockingly unacceptable ways, for years.

Wynn has repeatedly asserted that he ne'er harassed or sexually assaulted anyone. In addition, he has ne'er been convicted of, or fifty-fifty tried for, any of these crimes.

Wynn’s Latest Loss

On Oct. 14, 2019, the GCB issued a five-count complaint calling for the hearing. It accused Wynn of violating res publica gaming regulations by weakness “to exercise discreetness and auditory sensation mind to keep incidents which mightiness shine on the reputation of the state.”

Wynn’s attorney, Donald Campbell, argued before the NGC that it no yearner had jurisdiction over Wynn because he resigned from his companionship inward February 2018 and divested himself of his holdings inward it a month later.

The sexual molestation complaint was ne'er heard because Campbell successfully referred the affair to Kenneth Clark County District Court, delaying closure talks about the sexual harassment charges until the jurisdictional emerge was decided.

At Charles Joseph Clark County District Margaret Court inwards Nov 2020, Judge Adriana Escobar sided with Wynn. However, the GCB appealed the grammatical case to the Nevada Supreme Court. And, on Mar 31, 2022, the state’s highest court determined that Wynn could not appealingness an NGC determination until after the affair was adjudicated in a hearing.

Worst Possible Timing

This latest high-risk tidings for Wynn comes to a lesser extent than a calendar week after a Wynn Resorts rub down therapist, who claims Wynn forced her to human activity as an “on-call sexual servant” patch he was the company’s CEO, filed a sec cause against her employer.

Brenna Schrader’s accommodate alleged that Wynn Resorts continues to make a uncongenial process surround and retaliate against her for seeking justice against Wynn. (Schrader is also a plaintiff in an on-going federal year litigate case filed inward 2019 against Wynn and Wynn Resorts.)

According to the suit, filed Sept. 1 inward Mark Wayne Clark County District Court, Schrader “continues to endure unfriendly and relatiative treatment, as considerably as deal that is sexually unfriendly for female employees to this day.”