{"id":6619,"date":"2012-06-26T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2012-06-26T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T01:52:14","slug":"casino-owner-steve-wynn-surprises-needy-las-vegans-with-2-million-sends-tongues-wagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=6619","title":{"rendered":"Casino owner Steve Wynn surprises needy Las Vegans with $2 million, sends tongues wagging"},"content":{"rendered":"\"facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>

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Arrogant casino-mogul Steve(ie-boy) Wynn, A.K.A Stephen Alan Weinberg - LVBC*<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nJulie Jacobson, File\/Associated Press – FILE – In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Steve Wynn is interviewed in Las Vegas. Wynn was revealed as the Las Vegas casino owner who donated an anonymous gift of $500 each to 4,000 southern Nevada families in recent months. The $2 million gift to the United Way of Southern Nevada was the charitable organization\u2019s largest donation to date, and for months, guessing the identity of the donor <\/p>\n

By Associated Press, Published: June 25<\/em><\/p>\n

LAS VEGAS \u2014 To LeRoy Stapleton, $500 could mean the difference between prolonged homelessness and finding a job that could get him back on his feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a big help,\u201d said Stapleton, who lined up with 30 other people outside a Las Vegas unemployment office Monday morning waiting for it to open. \u201cYou need money to make money. If I had some gas, I could find a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Las Vegas casino owner\u2019s anonymous gift of $500 each to 4,000 southern Nevada families in recent months has had tongues wagging in a state with the highest unemployment rate in the nation. The $2 million gift to the United Way of Southern Nevada was the charitable organization\u2019s largest donation to date, and for months, guessing the identity of the donor became a popular pastime in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The first round of families received $500 bank gift cards just before Christmas 2011. Another 2,000 families received the donations Saturday in Las Vegas. The families were not told how much they would receive. Casino titan Steve Wynn confessed earlier this month to a newspaper columnist that he was the not-so-secret donor, but the families were never told Wynn was behind the funds read more…<\/a>
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\n“But he wouldn’t shake their hands” “Stevie-boy doesn’t like plain-citizens to stand too close to him.” – LVBC editor & janitor
\nThe question remains, did Steve Wynn ruin Las Vegas?<\/p>\n

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In this April 27, 2011 file photo, Steve Wynn is interviewed in Las Vegas. Wynn was revealed as the Las Vegas casino owner who donated an anonymous gift of $500 each to 4,000 southern Nevada families in recent months. The $2 million gift to the United Way of Southern Nevada was the charitable organization\u2019s largest donation to date, and for months, guessing the identity of the donor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[1082,1081,28,1080,780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6641,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}