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- NATION, Page 47American NotesNEVADAStrange Bedfellows
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- For a while last week, it looked like a nice way to reduce
- the deficit. After a lengthy tax dispute, the Federal
- Government seized the Mustang Ranch near Reno, the state's most
- venerable house of legal prostitution. U.S. bankruptcy trustees
- were aiming to operate the place themselves until they could
- find a buyer. The IRS says owner Joe Conforte owes $13 million
- in back taxes. The big bordello -- more than 100 rooms on 360
- acres -- could indeed have been a moneymaking proposition for
- the government. A prospectus showed 1986 revenues of $5.6
- million. But late last week a bankruptcy judge nixed an
- arrangement permitting the trustees to take over, opening the
- way for the IRS simply to foreclose.
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