FERTITTAS ROAD TO BUYING THEMSELVES OUT OF STATION CASINOS AND XYIENCE BANKRUPTCY PAVED WITH BAD INTENTIONS

Putting the Xyience Story To Bed & Waiting For The Ultimate Judgment Day

By: Rich Bergeron It is so hard to even imagine the day when the Xyience sage will really be over for me. Back when all this began I had a feeling it might be the kind of story that could define my career someday. It’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since the lawsuit paperwork reached my [...]

Xyience, Inc. Liquidation Trustee Files Complaint Against Fertitta Enterprises And Former Company Executives

Latest Xyience Case Update By: Rich Bergeron The Usual Suspects, including all the characters pictured below and Fertitta Enterprises GM William Bullard, are implicated in a new civil suit. The case, filed by the Xyience Bankruptcy Liquidation Trustee David Herzog Tuesday, is finally unearthing the scandal I've been reporting on here on this site for [...]

Station Casinos' Executives Out To Lunch Without a Cell Phone: What's the Potential UFC Impact?

By: Rich Bergeron $900 an hour lawyers should know better than to come into a casino bankruptcy without an open dialogue going with state gaming regulators. Yet, Station Casinos attorneys were caught with their pants down by the Reno, Nevada judge handling the case recently. It seems there has been no effort to even contact [...]

Station Casinos Collapse Backing UFC-owning Fertitta Brothers into a Corner

By: Rich Bergeron When it rains, it pours for the Fertitta family. Last Friday the patriarch Frank Fertitta, Jr. died while undergoing treatment for heart disease in a California hospital. The death comes at the tail end of a long and painful campaign of pending bankruptcy that finally ended in the Chapter 11 proceedings that [...]

ACCESS DENIED: Fertitta Friendly Global Cash Access May Lose Arizona License

By: Rich Bergeron Arizona's gaming authorities recently took a bold stand against a company called Global Cash Access by filing a notice of intent to deny state certification for the merchant services company, which has suspiciously tight connections with Station Casinos and Fertitta Enterprises. Most news reports about the Arizona developments barely scratch the surface [...]

FLOYD MAYWEATHER CELEBRATES AMERICA'S HOLIDAYS WITH FLAG WRAPPING OF GYM AND JULY 4 PICNIC FOR LAS VEGAS YOUTH DURING OPEN MEDIA DAY JULY 1

Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather stands with members from the Nellis Air Force Honor Guard. Mayweather showed his patriotism on June 11, by wrapping his boxing gym in the American Flag in recognition of Flag Day which takes place this Sunday. The 16' 2" wide by 8' 2" tall flag, an inspiration for the American fighter [...]

MAYWEATHER AND MARQUEZ INVITE RESPECTIVE PRESIDENTS TO THEIR JULY 18 NUMBER ONE/NUMERO UNO BOUT AT THE MGM GRAND IN LAS VEGAS

LIVE ON PAY-PER-VIEW LAS VEGAS (June 11, 2009) - Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez hope to unite the stately leaders the United States of America and Mexico by inviting their respective Presidents Barack Obama and Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa to their Saturday, July 18 Mayweather vs. Marquez: "Number One/Numero Uno," mega-fight at [...]