Steve Wynn returns to Las Vegas the week Wynn Resorts pays a $5.5M fine

Steve Wynn flew from Sonoma County to Las Vegas on May 23, touching down at Harry Reid International Airport in his Gulfstream G700 after a one-hour, eight-minute hop. The brief hop from wine country to the Strip is a familiar arc for a man whose Gulfstream logs heavy hours between California and Nevada.

The same week Wynn’s Gulfstream was in the air, Wynn Resorts Ltd. agreed to pay a $5.5 million fine to the Nevada Gaming Control Board for using unlicensed money transmitters to recruit foreign high-rollers, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The settlement, which goes before the Nevada Gaming Commission this week, resolves a complaint tied to a scheme that led to a $130.1 million federal non-prosecution agreement last year. Wynn himself resigned from the company in 2018 and sold his entire stake, but the corporate namesake remains deeply enmeshed in Nevada gaming oversight — and his private jet still calls Las Vegas a second home.

N88WR logged seven trips in the three days before this one, most of them shuttling between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Northern California. The pattern of short-haul hops between the West Coast and Las Vegas is a fixture of Wynn’s post-resignation life, as he tends to art collection and personal business far from the Palm Beach base he bought in 2019.