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...lucrative retainer it is. In November 1997, Trent Lott, the Mississippi Republican and Senate majority leader, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky who believes unlimited campaign cash is a free-speech right, flew to Las Vegas aboard the jet of casino impresario Steve Wynn to attend a gaming industry G.O.P. fund raiser. The Republicans left with $100,000--the start of something big. Within a year, additional casino contributions would boost that sum to nearly $1 million...
...Richard Gephardt, the Democratic Congressman from Missouri and House minority leader, and his colleague Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, flew to Las Vegas to pick up a check from Wynn in the amount of $250,000. The money went to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. And this week Gephardt and Rangel plan to return for yet another fund raiser, where they hope to raise...
Last week, his act changed again, moving into a new 1,265-seat theater that Steve Wynn built specially for him at the Mirage Hotel. Along with his 10-year, $150 million Vegas contract, Gans has recorded an album of Christian music, Brand New Dream, and Aaron Spelling is developing a TV pilot based on his life. Once a minor league ballplayer, Gans was doing 130 nights a year on the corporate-entertainment circuit when he decided to settle down in Vegas with his wife and three kids. There he has found his niche. "I hope I've made...
Kerkorian is clearly counting on Mirage's disillusioned shareholders, who have watched their stock slide from a 52-week high of $26 a share last May, to pressure a reluctant Wynn into making a deal. Some owners are eager to do just that. Hours after Kerkorian launched his offer, five Mirage shareholders brought class actions in Las Vegas to demand that Wynn and his board seriously consider all bids...
Analysts expect Wynn, who is gradually losing his sight to a degenerative eye disease called retinitis, to reject Kerkorian's bid as too little when the board meets this week. "There's no question that the offer isn't high enough," says a Mirage insider. "The real question is, What do we want to be when we grow up?" Translation: unless Wynn can win over Wall Street, his long-term chances of evading a predator like Kerkorian could be just a mirage...