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collection manager, and that, after the tournament, he asked Mr.
Jones to look into the absence of payment records. Although
petitioner states that he never heard specifically what had
occurred at the cage, petitioner claims that Caesar’s started to
send him letters concerning settlement of his account soon
thereafter. Petitioner asserts that Caesar’s must have known or
thought it probable that a cage employee had mishandled the chips
and that Caesar’s settled for that reason. Petitioner contends
that he owed Caesar’s only $180,000, the amount that he repaid,
but petitioner offers no evidence that directly corroborates his
testimony that he disputed his debt to Caesar’s. Petitioner,
however, did offer the testimony of a witness who corroborated
his version of some of the events occurring at the time of the
golf tournament.
After considering the record in the instant case, however,
we conclude that petitioner has not established the factual
predicate for the alleged dispute between himself and Caesar’s
concerning the amount of his debt to the casino; namely, the use
of his credit by others during December 1985 and the failure of
the casino to record repayments by those persons. The records of
the casino in evidence concerning petitioner’s account show that
the extensions of credit that created the debts the casino sought
to collect from petitioner occurred during May and October of
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