The employee believed she was on the phone with the hotel’s owner, texting with her manager, and meeting with the owner’s attorney. The cage supervisor separated the money into four installments of $314,000, $350,000, $500,000, and three smaller deposits, then handed it over to a person at different off-site locations, according to the report citing court documents. The KLAS-TV story reported that someone contacted the casino cage claiming to be the owner and seeking cash. From the outside, you say, “How can that happen?”
“An employee in the cage can walk out with $300,000, meet a guy she doesn’t know, and give him the cash? As an ex-surveillance guy who lives and breathes internal controls and procedures, I say there are a lot of gaps to fill in.
