One of the tenets of Sheldon Adelson‘s fight against online gaming and poker is that “it can’t be policed to prevent” underage gaming. It is a belief that the billionaire casino mogul (pictured) has stated on many occasions and about many other subjects including underage drinking and prostitution.

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While Adelson states that these activities can be controlled in a casino, a new web series will premiere on Wednesday and expose Adelson’s company, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, and its lies regarding “controlling” certain aspects of its operations.

The Tim James Showis expected to premiere on Wednesday online and its eponymous host has decided to target Adelson and the Sands’ operations at the Venetian(pictured below) and the Palazzo. “Why does this person, who is currently the third richest person in America, singlehandedly fund the fight against online poker?” James asks at the start of his teaser reel for the webisode. “I wanted to find out what his rationale was.”

James targets statements made by Adelson in a Bloomberg interview in which the billionaire casino owner states that the physical casinos aren’t supposed to allow underage gamblers. James arranges for an operation in which a female who was only 19 went into the casino with a fake ID. That person then proceeded to have free run of the Venetian’s grounds.

“She played slots, she played dice, blackjack, and poker,” James reports while running video of the female enjoying these things. He indignantly continued, “An underage person can go into your casino, be served alcohol, and gamble.”

Thinking that it may have just been an isolated incident, or perhaps one with male power figures giving an attractive young lady the benefit of the doubt, James runs the same experiment again using a 19 year old male. “This time, however, we sent him in with no ID at all,” James said. James then shows video of the male doing the same things as the young lady, including cashing in a ticket at the cage and playing poker on the floor of the Venetian.

The crux of James’ argument comes in the next segment of the teaser reel. Taking information from his two subjects, he tries to sign them up for accounts on WSOP.com, which are rejected. Over five different manipulations, James’ subjects are continually spurned from signing up for an online poker account in Nevada, but easily gained access to online poker’s biggest opponent’s live casino and gambled and drank while underage.

The teaser reel then delves into a darker issue – prostitution– and runs a clip of Adelson sarcastically saying, “Why don’t we legalize prostitution; it’s happening all over the place anyway?”

James decides to go to the Palazzo himself to see if he can hire a prostitute on its grounds. Thanks to teaser reel editing, within seconds James has picked up an escort, settled on a price ($1,000), and has discussed with the prostitute that the management wants ladies of her profession there “for the rich guys.”

“All the things that you’re trying to protect us from… you’re not protecting us from. In fact, it’s going on in your casino,” James concludes. “Hopefully this video will be seen by enough people that they will realize that they thought you were protecting them before, but will have to realize you’re not protecting them now.”

With the initial episode, James is firing the cannons directly across the bow of one of the most powerful gaming magnates in the world. There is little indication of what he might attempt to do in the future and it isn’t known if James will continue with the same expose-style approach to demonstrating the hypocrisy of the LVSC’s leadership and the continued violations of the law.

Check out the Tim James Show’s website.

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