Long before Hillary Clinton allegedly took to scrubbing an email server, Richard Nixon’s army of henchmen made fashionable the process of running paper shredders at all hours of night – and even conveniently splicing audiotapes. Now Borgata, Atlantic City’s most luxurious gaming hall, has been made to answer the allegations of Phil Ivey that it did similarly, destroying playing cards before they could be utilized as evidence in the federal suit previously rehashed on this website.
The casino’s formal legal answer – an exercise in brevity by virtue of procedural requirement – amounts to a tacit admission that "some of the cards used in the play at issue in this case were destroyed," though one accompanied by an essential disclaimer: such mutilation was "in the regular course of … business operations," and came before Borgata purports to have been on notice of Mr.