Okada coounter-sued, and sensing her moment, Elaine joined the lawsuit in an attempt to extricate herself from the shareholders agreement that barred her from selling her shares.<\/p>\n
Wynn Resorts resolved she was in breach of fiduciary duties to the company and ousted her from the board.<\/p>\n
\nElaine recently petitioned the Nevada Supreme Court for whistle-blower protection in relation to allegations of securities violations by Wynn Resorts, after being refused protection by the Las Vegas trial judge presiding over the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nCovert Operations<\/b><\/h2>\n
But in the latest filing, Wynn Resorts claims Elaine\u2019s allegations are based on privileged information that her former her lawyers secretly copied from private company files in 2013. They also claim lawyers made a forensic image of her assistant\u2019s computer.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhether Elaine and her agents covertly accessed even more information than they copied may never be known,” the company said in the filing. \u201cThe computers were connected to Wynn Resorts\u2019 corporate network and Elaine didn\u2019t supervise her attorneys.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nElaine, meanwhile, claims she was merely following the advice of her legal team, although she admitted she had not told Wynn Resorts that the information had been accessed and copied.<\/p>\n
\u201cI relied on their counsel to follow their directions,” she said in during a hearing last week. \u201cAnd they wished to image my computer, and so I cooperated with that request.”<\/p>\n
The case continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wynn Resorts is suing its former co-founder and director, Elaine Wynn, for punitive damages on the grounds that she superstitiously allowed her lawyers to copy computer hard drives belonging to the company. It\u2019s the latest salvo in a long-running war of the roses between Wynn and her estranged husband, Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn. Elaine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":47840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,10,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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