Las Vegas Group to Manage Three Elko Casinos

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The casino management empire of gaming executive Larry Woolf grew by three Thursday. The Nevada Gaming Commission approved Woolf’s Las Vegas-based Navegante Group to operate three casinos in Elko under a management contract with the properties’ ownership.

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Fri, September 22nd, 2006

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