In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, MGM Resorts International says it has $800 million available to shooting victims and hopes to settle claims by May 2020.
Richard N. Velotta
Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
Rickisha Hightower, a former deputy attorney general, has been named interim commissioner of the Nevada Financial Institutions Division, replacing retired George Burns.
Longtime Las Vegas gaming executive Scott Sibella has been named president of Resorts World Las Vegas, the 3,400-room resort that will open in late 2020 on the Strip.