Gaming Law Conference

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1 2017 Gaming Law Conference Friday, November 3, 2017 Red Rock Casino Resort Spa Agenda 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. BSA MAY STAND FOR BETTER START APOLOGIZING : WHY YOUR CULTURE OF COMPLIANCE MAY BE YOUR CASINO S BIGGEST PAIN POINT JIM DOWLING, PRESIDENT, DOWLING ADVISORY GROUP MINDY LETOURNEAU, CEO, CASINO ESSENTIALS GREGORY LISA, PARTNER, HOGAN LOVELLS 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. everi sponsored networking break 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Emerging Employment Issues in the gaming industry dora lane, partner, holland & hart, llp rick d. roskelley, partner, littler mendelson, p.c. lou dorn, general counsel & chief compliance officer, sls las vegas (moderator) 10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. everi sponsored networking break 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Responsible Gaming: a global scan bo bernhard, ph.d, executive director, international gaming institute - unlv 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. everi sponsored networking break 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Regulators Roundtable Dr. Tony Alamo, Chairman, Nevada Gaming Commission A.G. Burnett, Chairman, Nevada Gaming Control Board Scott Scherer, Partner, Holland & Hart, llp (Moderator) 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. casino essentials sponsored lunch keynote speaker - paul camacho, vice president of aml compliance, STATION CASINOS, LLC 1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. the new nevada gaming compliance unit: what every licensee needs to know Dave Staley, Special Agent, Investigations Division, Corporate Securities Section, Compliance Unit, luke rippee, senior agent, investigations division, corporate securities section, compliance unit 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. everi sponsored networking break Presented by: State Bar of Nevada 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Ethy Awards Sean Carter, Humorist at Law GAMING LAW SECTION

2 TONY ALAMO, M.D. CHAIRMAN, NEVADA GAMING COMMISSION Tony Alamo is a Physician with a 14-year history of Nevada State regulatory oversight. Chairman Alamo is the only person in Nevada history to have been the Chairman of the Athletic and Gaming Commissions. He is graduate of UNLV and University of Southern California School of Medicine. He founded and currently practices Internal Medicine at The Alamo Medical Clinic (a multi-physician group). In addition, Chairman Alamo has a 17-year history with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD SWAT-SAR) as a Tactical Physician and is the recipient of LVMPD s metal for Valorous Conduct. He is also a commercial pilot and avid aviator. BO BERNHARD, PH.D EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL GAMING INSTITUTE, UNLV Dr. Bo Bernhard is the Executive Director of the UNLV International Gaming Institute, the world s largest academic institution dedicated to the study of gambling and the global gaming industry. Dr. Bernhard began his research career at Harvard University, where as an undergraduate he captained the baseball team, was voted outstanding player on the nationally-ranked soccer team, and completed a double major (psychology and sociology) magna cum laude thesis on the global impacts of the gaming industry. The foundations of his thesis have since been extended worldwide, and by the age of 30, Dr. Bernhard had lectured on all six inhabited continents. Today, Dr. Bernhard calls Las Vegas home, but he works frequently in jurisdictions as diverse as South Africa, Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Macau, Vietnam, China, Japan, Taiwan, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Greece, England, Mexico, and Canada as well as dozens of states in the U.S. advising government and private sector groups on policy and socio-economic impacts. His research has been published in the top journals in both the business sciences (including Cornell Quarterly) and the social sciences (including a guest edited special volume of American Behavioral Scientist), and he currently serves as Executive Editor for a leading peer-reviewed academic journal, Gaming Research and Review. Dr. Bernhard s projects have been prominently featured in local and national media outlets (including CNN, PBS, NPR, The New York Times, The Australian Broadcasting Channel, and The History Channel), and he has been a popular guest on Dr. Drew Pinsky s television programs. These efforts have earned him numerous awards, including the World Affairs Council s International Educator of the Year award, the UNLV Hotel College s top teaching and research awards, the university-wide Spanos Teaching Award, given to the outstanding teacher on campus, and the university-wide Barrick Scholar Award, given to one scholar per year for outstanding earlycareer research. A.G. BURNETT CHAIRMAN, NEVADA GAMING CONTROL BOARD A.G. Burnett is the Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB). He was appointed to this role by Governor Brian Sandoval in October 2012, and then reappointed to serve another term in January Prior to serving as Chairman, he was a Member of the GCB, appointed by Governor Sandoval in January Chairman Burnett received his J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1996, and his B.A. in International Affairs and Political Science from the University of Nevada, Reno in He is a member of the Nevada State Bar, and is licensed to practice before all Nevada and Federal courts. Prior to his time at the Board, Chairman Burnett was a Senior Deputy Attorney General in the Gaming Division of the Nevada Attorney General s Office, representing the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the Nevada Gaming Commission, and the Nevada Commission on Sports. Chairman Burnett also sits on the William S. Boyd School of Law Gaming Law Advisory Board.

3 PAUL CAMACHO VICE PRESIDENT OF AML COMPLIANCE, STATION CASINOS Paul Camacho is the Vice President of AML Compliance for Station Casinos. Mr Camacho previously served as the Special Agent in Charge for the Las Vegas Field Office of IRS Criminal Investigation. Mr. Camacho has overseen sophisticated financial investigations involving abusive tax schemes, offshore banking, high dollar ponzi and investment fraud, embezzlement, internet fraud, military contract fraud, identify theft, mortgage fraud, money laundering, organized crime groups, illegal gambling operations, human trafficking, drug trade organizations, political corruption, sovereign citizens and terrorism financing. The aggregate dollar value of these investigations exceeds well over a billion dollars. Mr. Camacho is a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of California State University East Bay. SEAN CARTER HUMORIST AT LAW Sean Carter graduated from Harvard Law School in His ten years of legal practice focused on corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions. During this time, he represented such clients as GNC, Experian, The Boston Beer Company Homeside Lending, Safelite Auto Glass, J. Crew and many others. Most recently, he served as in-house counsel to a publicly-traded finance company. In 2002, Mr. Carter left the practice of law to pursue a career as the country s foremost Humorist at Law. Since then, Mr. Carter has crisscrossed the country delivering comedic professional educational seminars for more than 250 organizations in three dozen states. Mr. Carter is the author of the firstever comedic legal treatise -- If It Does Not Fit, Must You Acquit?: Your Humorous Guide to the Law. His syndicated legal humor column has appeared in general circulation newspapers in more than 30 states and his weekly humor column for lawyers appeared in the ABA e-report from 2003 to Finally, Sean lives in Mesa, Arizona with his wife and four sons. LOU DORN GENERAL COUNSEL AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER, SLS LAS VEGAS Lou is currently the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for SLS Las Vegas. Lou previously served as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for the Aliante Casino & Hotel in North Las Vegas, and as General Counsel for the Tao Group, which operates restaurants and nightclubs in Las Vegas and New York. From May 2004 to December 2011, Lou served as the General Counsel for Colony Resorts LVH Acquisitions, LLC, the former owner of the Las Vegas Hilton. Lou was previously an associate with the law firm of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., where his practice was concentrated on business, finance and gaming matters. Lou is the former Chief of the Corporate Securities Division for the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Prior to joining the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Lou served as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Nevada, where he represented Nevada Gaming Commission, the State Gaming Control Board, the Nevada Department of Transportation and the Nevada Department of Taxation.

4 JIM DOWLING MANAGING DIRECTOR, DOWLING ADVISORY GROUP Jim Dowling is the Managing Director of Dowling Advisory Group (DAG). He has more than 30 years experience in the areas of fraud, anti-money laundering (AML) and risk management. His career includes extensive experience as a Special Agent with the IRS Criminal Division, Big Four accounting and regulatory compliance. Jim also served as the Anti-Money Laundering Advisor to the Executive Office of the President, White House Drug Policy Office. He served on FinCEN s Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group and OFAC s SDN Kingpin selection group. The Dowling Advisory Group provides casinos with expertise in conducting independent testing of Title 31 programs, creating and evaluating risk assessments and related programs. DAG also helps casinos establish Customer Due Diligence ( CDD ) and Source of Funds programs. The DAG team has conducted independent testing at all sizes and types of casinos including some of the largest in the country. DAG has developed proprietary data analytics software for testing Title 31 programs that is unparalleled in the industry. Jim is also an adjunct professor at the USC Marshall School of Business where he teaches forensic accounting in the master s program and is on the ACAMS Board of Directors for the Southern California chapter. DORA LANE PARTNER, HOLLAND & HART Dora Lane, a Partner with Holland & Hart, provides sound labor and employment advice to companies of all sizes in the Mountain West Region. Businesses count on Ms. Lane to guide them through the myriad of labor and employment issues to keep their operations running smoothly. Dora s experience includes counseling and representing clients on wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, reductions in force, workers compensation, employee separation, and other employment-related issues. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, she clerked for Justice Mark Gibbons of the Nevada Supreme Court. She is a Partner in the Labor and Employment department and works primarily in Reno and Las Vegas. MINDY LETOURNEAU CEO, CASINO ESSENTIALS Mindy Letourneau, CEO and Founder of Casino Essentials, provides educational services to casinos, gaming regulators and vendors in the gaming industry to ensure compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (AML/Title 31). She has an expert understanding and more than 20 years of BSA (AML/Title 31) regulatory experience in the casino and depository institution industries. Mindy s ability to provide training strategies that balance compliance with operations allow casinos to pursue their mission in a findings free environment. Mindy has authored several educational articles as a published writer for one of the largest magazines in the Gaming Industry: Casino Enterprise Management Magazine. She has educated casino gaming professionals across the nation and most notably the National Indian Gaming Association, Great Plains, Midwest and Oklahoma Indian Gaming Associations, several State Association professionals via AML Webinars and Casino Essentials Seminars and Webinars. In addition, Mindy provides professional consulting services for Title 31, AML and OFAC executive training services for casinos. She holds a Master s degree from San Diego State University.

5 GREGORY LISA PARTNER, HOGAN LOVELLS Gregory Lisa is a Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan Lovells, a global law firm. Greg uses his extensive firsthand experience in anti-money laundering to help financial institution clients navigate the complex regulations and expectations of regulators, examination teams, and law enforcement agencies, civil and criminal. Before joining Hogan Lovells, Greg was the Interim Director of the Office of Compliance and Enforcement at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Treasury Department s lead regulator for overseeing and enforcing anti-money laundering laws. Greg also served as the Chief of the Money Services Businesses and Casinos Section within FinCEN s Enforcement Division. During his tenure, he supervised and conducted a number of investigations, supervisory exams, and enforcement actions across FinCEN s broad jurisdiction, including investigations into large depository institutions, global securities firms, casinos and card clubs, cryptocurrency exchangers, and other financial institutions. Prior to his work at FinCEN, Greg served in the Office of Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As one of its earliest members, having joined before the actual formation of the CFPB, he helped to stand up the Bureau s enforcement program. Greg was also a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice for 12 years, first in the Civil Division, and then for almost 10 years in the Criminal Division s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section as a federal prosecutor, investigating and litigating a number of cases involving money laundering, fraud, RICO, public corruption, and other violations. RICK ROSKELLEY SHAREHOLDER, LITTLER MENDELSON Rick Roskelley, a Shareholder with Littler Mendelson, has over 30 years of experience representing employers in employment law matters. His practice focuses on employee compensation, wage and hour, health and safety and the defense of class and collective actions. He regularly represents employers before all state and federal courts and administrative agencies in Nevada, Utah and Idaho. Rick is a frequent lecturer and conducts seminars on a variety of employment and labor law topics and has been named in The Best Lawyers in America for the past five years. LUKE RIPPEE SENIOR AGENT, INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION, CORPORATE SECURITIES SECTION, COMPLIANCE UNIT NEVADA GAMING CONTROL BOARD Luke Rippee is a Senior Agent with the Nevada Gaming Control Board s Investigations Division, Corporate Securities Section, Compliance Unit. Senior Agent Rippee was assigned to the Compliance Unit in September of Mr. Rippee has nine years of experience with the Board including seven years as an agent in the Corporate Securities Section and two years in the Compliance Unit. Senior Agent Rippee has conducted corporate licensing investigations and compliance reviews throughout the United States and in England, Gibraltar, Israel, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Macau. Mr. Rippee is a member of the Northern Nevada Financial Crimes Task Force. Mr. Rippee is also a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno and will complete the State of Nevada Certified Public Manager Program in 2018.

6 SCOTT SCHERER PARTNER, HOLLAND & HART Scott is a partner in the law firm of Holland & Hart, practicing primarily in the area of regulatory and administrative law with special emphasis on gaming regulatory matters and legislative affairs. Scott s career highlights include serving as a Supervising Deputy Attorney General in the Gaming Division of the Nevada Attorney General s Office, General Counsel and Chief of Staff to the Governor, twoterm Nevada Assemblyman and member of the Nevada Commission on Ethics. At the request of the Mississippi Attorney General, Scott assisted the Mississippi Legislature in drafting the Mississippi Gaming Control Act. He also served four years as a member of the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Scott s corporate experience includes serving as Associate General Counsel and Executive Director of Corporate Development for International Game Technology (IGT) and Acting Managing Director of IGT Africa. DAVE STALEY SPECIAL AGENT, INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION, CORPORATE SECURITIES SECTION, COMPLIANCE UNIT NEVADA GAMING CONTROL BOARD David Staley is a Special Agent with the Nevada Gaming Control Board s Investigation Division, Corporate Securities Section, Compliance Unit. Mr. Staley oversees the Compliance Unit, which was created in July Special Agent Staley has 22 years of experience conducting corporate licensing investigations and compliance plan reviews for the Board. Mr. Staley has conducted licensing investigations and compliance reviews domestically and in England, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Africa, Singapore, and Malaysia. Special Agent Staley attended the University of Nevada, Reno where he received both his undergraduate degree and Master s in Business Administration. Mr. Staley recently completed the State of Nevada Certified Public Manager Program in 2017.