Palms files suit against former host who allegedly stole confidential information

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By Steve Green
Las Vegas Sun
July 19, 2012

The Palms is suing a former casino host, claiming she misappropriated 
invaluable data including the names and contact information for hundreds 
of high-rollers and other gamblers.

The Flamingo Road property in Las Vegas filed suit Tuesday in Clark County 
District Court against Jessica Hemingway.

The suit says Hemingway was fired on July 9 after it was discovered she 
had allegedly emailed vast amounts of confidential company information to 
her personal Yahoo and Gmail accounts. The Palms is seeking unspecified 
damages and an injunction to require her to return the information and to 
not use, disclose or transfer any of the data and specifically not to 
provide it to competing casinos.

Hemingway couldn?t immediately be reached for comment.

The suit says Palms executives learned last month that Hemingway, a casino 
host in the table games department since September 2011, was looking for 
another job. So a supervisor routinely had the IT department review her 
work email to see if she was taking or sending any confidential 
information to herself or others not employed by the Palms.

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