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Reporter: Corey Levitan

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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Wynn Las Vegas

UPDATE: Nevada Gaming Commission Approves $5.5M Money Laundering Fine for Wynn Las Vegas

UPDATE: The Nevada Gaming Commission voted 4-1 on Thursday, May 22 to approve the $5.5 million fine against Wynn Resorts recommended by the Nevada Gaming Control Board last week. Commissioner Rosa Solis-Rainey cast the dissenting vote, stating that the fine was too...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

‘Top Gun’ Experience Landing in Las Vegas

A 'Top Gun' experience will be built at the Strat casino hotel It is expected to open in the summer of 2028 It will feature fighter jet simulators and a recreation of the bar from "Top Gun: Maverick" Las Vegas will launch...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

Fontainebleau is 4th Vegas Casino Investigated for Money Laundering

Fontainebleau is the fourth Las Vegas Strip casino in a little over a year known to be investigated by Nevada gaming regulators for potentially violating anti-money laundering (AML) laws, according to the Nevada Independent. The new investigation was inadvertently revealed during a...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Strip Casinos Earn Most of Their Revenue from Gambling

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Vegas Myths Busted" now publishes its new entry every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today's entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Oct. 21, 2022. The Las Vegas Strip has been the heart of gambling in the...

Corey Levitan May 23, 2025

Caesars Entertainment Sued for Alleged Assault Outside Las Vegas Strip Restaurant

A Nevada woman is suing multiple parties for failing to act following a gruesome attack she claims she suffered two years ago at a restaurant on the Strip's Linq Promenade. According to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, Malissa Danielle Miles claims she was...

Corey Levitan May 22, 2025

Two Legionnaires Cases Reported at South Point Casino in Las Vegas

Two separate cases of Legionnaires' disease are being investigated at the South Point casino hotel in Las Vegas, the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) announced Thursday. One case occurred in August 2024, while the other occurred in February 2025. Both are “travel-associated”...

Corey Levitan May 22, 2025

LOST VEGAS: Celebrity Dealers

Among the various illegal activities one might have stumbled across in a Las Vegas casino in the 1950s was celebrity dealing. Dean Martin reportedly ran blackjack tables for kicks between his 8 p.m. and midnight shows at the Sands, a casino that,...

Corey Levitan May 22, 2025

Fontainebleau Las Vegas and Tom Brady to Debut Memorabilia Display

Fontainebleau Las Vegas and Tom Brady will open a temporary sports and entertainment museum in June "Hall of Excellence" will feature impressive memorabilia from Brady and other notables Fontainebleau Las Vegas announced Wednesday that it will open a temporary sports and entertainment...

Corey Levitan May 21, 2025

Sex Worker Hired for Diddy’s ‘Freak Offs’ Was Convicted Las Vegas Killer & Reality Star

Ash Armand's photo was introduced during the first week of Sean "P Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial Prosecutors claim he was one of 13 male escorts hired to perform at the disgraced record mogul's "freak off" sex parties Armand was initially known...

Corey Levitan May 21, 2025

VEGAS DINING NEWS: New ‘Restaurant Fee’ In, Bahama Breeze Out

Check your checks, Las Vegas visitors. Some restaurants now charge a fee separate from the price of your food and drinks, tax and tip. Vegas visitor Dave Larouche recently shared a tweet of the receipt for his bill at Giordano’s at the...

Corey Levitan May 20, 2025