Not only is Big Brother watching you, your blackjack dealer is, too.
Liz Benston of The Las Vegas Sun reports that the IRS is urging Casinos to have its employees report customers who are carrying around large sums of cash:
Several months ago, the Internal Revenue Serviceagents who investigate financial crimes in Las Vegas began calling big casinos to set up meetings with their employees.
The calls were friendly.
In fact, the IRS — battling a bumper crop of white-collar crime — needed the casinos’ help.
The feds were asking floor workers to drop a dime and report suspicious people gambling with lots of money.
“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.”
After years of interacting with gamblers, casino workers are skilled readers of body language and financial funny business, the IRS says.
Do you think Casinos will help the IRS by encouraging their workers to rat on their own customers?
I don’t.
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