The resort corridor remains awash in gossip while waiting for the next move in the IRS investigation into nightclubs operated by Pure Management Group at both Caesars and Luxor. The question, of course, at the heart of any IRS investigation is what happened to the money. We are no closer to that answer yet.

But coming out in many forms is where the huge amounts of nightclub cash came from, and that alone is a story that is disgusting in its alleged details.

The Las Vegas Sun has a great article about the experience of one local couple, the Hendersons, attempting to take their daughter and her girlfriends out for her 21st birthday to red-hot LAX at Luxor. They claim they arranged a table through LAX and had reservations (LAX claims to find no record of the reservation, but the Hendersons provided credit card receipts to the Sun).

As I discovered on my much earlier trip to Pure (another club run by Pure Management Group), being on a list can be meaningless. The doorman expected $100 from me to look for my name on the list. The couple in the Sun story at LAX (as I was at Pure) were also asked to pay the doorman $100 to check the list. My experience ended when an owner of the club recognized me and walked me into Pure.

The Hendersons, of course, were not writing a story for the Las Vegas Weekly or Movable Buffet, only trying to give their daughter a memorable birthday party; and so, for them the alleged fleecing continued, turning an expected $1,000 night into a more than $2,000 experience. And it wasn't just the money they spent but how they were made to spend it that is so disgusting. Let me excerpt some sentences from the Sun article:

"Some burly man appeared, identifying himself as the group's 'security guy.' For $100 the man told the Hendersons he would ensure the safety of the group at the club. Henderson said he paid him. The 'security guy' never returned."

"The Hendersons said their restroom tips for the night came to about $120."

"Eventually, a manager showed up, and the Hendersons said he told them that because there was such a demand for the tables they needed to buy two more bottles of liquor to hold on to both of theirs (tables). The Hendersons refused. They said the manager then brought another group to occupy one of the tables the couple thought they had reserved for the night."