By Joel Schectman
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Here, in the city of glitz and promise, just a few poor plays can bury a gambler under a tower of debt. And when a player doesnt repay the loans, Las Vegas has power to employ a tool unavailable to most every other creditor: jail.
Las Vegas Justice Court sits two miles from the cacophony of the Vegas strip, in a sparsely developed area of downtown dotted with bail bond shops. Vices of the strip prostitution, fights, drug possession are adjudicated in this court.
In a windowless basement of the courthouse sits Las Vegas most fearsome debt collector: the Clark County District Attorneys Bad Check Unit. This is where the books often get settled on casino debt-fueled gambling. The Bad Check Unit office r…
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