Las Vegas Escorts: IRS recruits casino workers to track white-collar crime
August 27, 2010 by notdaveelms
In fact, the IRS needed the casinos’ help. The feds were asking floor workers to drop a dime and report suspicious people gambling with lots of money.
Since the 1980s, Nevada casinos have filed thousands of reports containing the names, Social Security numbers and other identifying characteristics of customers suspected of laundering money or simply gambling with ill-gotten funds. Those figures are rising in the recession and appear to coincide with increased financial crimes across the country.
“A lot of people come to Vegas to live large … including a small group of people who engage in crime,” said Paul Camacho, IRS special agent in charge of criminal investigations in Las Vegas. “Mortgage fraud and Ponzi schemes have added a new dynamic. This isn’t just the drug dealer, pimp or organized-crime figure. It’s the guy who stole the money from the church or from Grandma.”