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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Sniffing … Sid Vaikunta, sacked as general manager of The Star / Pic: Cameron Richardson
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Allegations … Elizabeth Ward leaves the John Madison Towers / Pic: Tim Hunter
Source: The Daily Telegraph
HE was a drug abuser, entertaining high rollers with dilated pupils, glassy eyes and an incessant sniff. These were just some of the accusations made against former Star casino boss Sid Vaikunta – dubbed “sniffing Sid” – yesterday.
Evidence at the Furness inquiry, investigating The Star’s alleged culture of bullying, painted a picture of the former managing director as a drug user who allowed his VIP rooms to run out of control, with a pop star he befriended given free rein to be “intoxicated” and “obnoxious”.
Another high roller was allegedly given special treatment – to the point that when a casino manager tried to investigate a white powder he allegedly left in a line on a bathroom shelf, the tests came back as “concrete dust” and digital images of evidence disappeared.
Former casino manager Elizabeth Ward alleged the white powder was left in an unsecured draw for a week and when it was finally tested – on the assumption it was cocaine – it was found to be concrete dust.
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“I believe what was originally found in the bathroom was drugs,” Ms Ward said yesterday.
“(Casino managers) were told to shut me up. I believe (that request) came from Sid Vaikunta.
“The player had a friendly relationship with Sid. It is my belief they had a social habit together. By a player being outed there was a possibility of Sid being outed.”
The inquiry was told Mr Vaikunta used cocaine at the casino on three documented occasions.
Ms Ward described Mr Vaikunta as erratic, with “glassy eyes, licking his lips, a particular twitch … which is exactly how he became known as ‘Sniffing Sid’,” she said.
The inquiry was told Mr Vaikunta had intervened in the investigation into the high roller – who had gambling debts of $200,000 – to protect himself when drugs were discovered while the man was on the premises. Ms Ward said that after she began investigating the powder, her relationship with Mr Vaikunta soured.
She cried as she described a humiliating 40-minute ordeal in a public bar where she was forced to apologise to the high roller, who berated her in front of onlookers.
Former casino staffer Greg Culpan, who ran a business with rehabilitated drug users in the 1970s, told the inquiry Mr Vaikunta was “off his face” on drugs during an employee forum last year.
“I saw him sniffing his nose incessantly, I could see he was itchy all the time,” Mr Culpan said.
“He was very animated, his eyes were enlarged, he seemed to have an extreme amount of energy.”
Ms Ward also alleged Mr Vaikunta made lewd comments such as “bring on the p . . sy” when discussing the casino’s relaunch and had tried to make staff uniforms shorter.
” I wanted something classy and they were going in the opposite direction,” she said.
Last night, Mr Vaikunta released a statement labelling Ms Ward’s claims as completely false: “I have never been a cocaine user. Furthermore, her assertion I influenced an investigation involving a VIP player due to my relationship is baseless. I was not part of that investigation and I did not at any time participate in the procedure that followed to complete that investigation. Her defamatory remarks about me are untrue.”
Echo Entertainment Group last night said Ms Ward’s claims about the white powder were “investigated” last year during a casino licence review by Gail Furness, who found “there was no cover-up”.
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