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- <title>
- Oct. 01, 1990: American Notes:Nevada
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 01, 1990 David Lynch
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 47
- American Notes
- NEVADA
- Strange Bedfellows
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- <body>
- <p> 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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- </body>
- </article>
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