Las Vegas Sins and Scams – Book Six – the Good Life (Las Vegas Sins & Scams – Book 6 – the Good Life) Second Half

By Paul Wallace Winquist

CAUTION: this book is NOT written for children, Fundamentalist Christians, Muslims, or English teachers.
It is a cult type book for nymphomaniacs, perverts, criminals, psychopaths, business scammers, folks with serious ADHD, adventurers, and people who want to read about such folks.
Over the years I have known various gangsters, hit-men, stock market scammers, drug smugglers, unscrupulous lawyers, and other assorted scum of the earth, so that is what I have written about.
Hundreds of pictures of the scenery where the characters are: Las Vegas, Nevada, Los Angeles, and Oregon in this first book. (for COLOR READERS ONLY)
Lots of perverted, normal, fun, perverted. and exciting sex is vividly described. (Some has been censored out for US distribution.) Lots of graphic violence and sex.
Screwball Fundamentalist Christians and Muslims should NOT READ this book. (Jews, Atheists, Buddhists, and Agnostics are usually okay with it.)
Over 30 ways to kill people, without getting caught are described.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Wallace Winquist
• Release date: Jul 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311916891

Paul Wallace Winquist

Born 1945BS from Portland State University - Business Administration / Real Estate LawMany courses toward MS in Electronics EngineeringInstalled big satellite TV systems into casinos, race and sports books, and hotels in Las Vegas 20 years.Writing this series of books part time since 1990.

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Las Vegas Sins And Scams – Book Five – The Good Life (Las Vegas Sins & Scams – Book 6 – The Good Life) SECOND HALF

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Table of Contents

Character List

Chapter 112 - Alisha

Chapter 113 – Isla De Cozumel

Chapter 114 Vancouver Vs. Vancouver

Chapter 115 - Transplants

Chapter 116 – Mayan Pyramids

Chapter 117 – Culture Shock

Chapter 118 – Japanese Money

Chapter 119 – Incompetence

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Character List

Sheldon – Main Founding Partner

Bob Billingsley – Main Building Contractor

Mark – Runs Tony’s Porn Business in Chatsworth California

Tony – Main Founding Partner – In prison for Money Laundering to Costa Rica

Joe – Main Founding Partner – Chairman of the Board

Loraine – Main Company Lawyer

Melissa – One of Sheldon’s Girlfriends – In Charge of Radio Programming

Sandy – Sheldon’s Daughter – VP Public Relations & Advertising

Wallace (The Creep) (Wally) – CD Marketing for a while

Twila – Music Star – Super Nice Slut – Mike’s Girlfriend

Joan (The Pianist) – Piano and Organ Player -

Linda – Sheldon’s Live In Girlfriend – Little Sheldon’s Mother

Lori – Tony’s X-Wife – Farms Manager

Fred – Theater Manager in Seattle

Joe Junior (JR) – Joe’s Son – MBA from UCLA – CEO on US Businesses

Sue – Joe’s Long Term Live-In-Girlfriend – In Charge of the Scholarship Fund

Mike – In Charge of Radio Engineering and Licensing – Boyfriend of Twila

Jim – Head of Print Shop

Curtis – Head of Tony’s Tit Joints

Cindy - 2nd In Charge of Tit Joints – Hygiene Instructor for Prostitutes

David – Joe’s Son – Harvard Law Graduate – Married to Sandy

Carla – Porn Star – Limo Driver - All the Guys Occasional Sex Partner

Cowboy Clint –Famous Movie Star that Loves Jazz

Henry – Audio and Video Technician – C++ Coder

Jeanne – Bartender – Limo Driver – Pilot - Sheldon’s Girlfriend

Marvin Goldman – Past Owner, Now Manager of the Restaurant in Boise

Ike – Past Owner of the Belize Resort, Now Manager

Bruce – Main Sound and Computer Systems Engineer

Tim – Lori and Tony’s Son

Al – Golf Pro – Golf Course Designer

Jose (The Cubano) – Drug Smuggler

Isaac – Casino Owner in San Jose Costa Rica that Tony Dealt With

Paul – Head of the Company they get their Gaming Equipment From

Alisha – JR’s Girlfriend – Medical Student

Ryan – Past Owner, Now Manager at Cozumel, Mexico

Curt Swenson – Building Contractor in South Dakota

Josh Goldsmith – Kidney Donor for Sheldon – Sheldon’s ½ Brother

Don – Ecuador Resort Manager

Hank – Ecuador Banana Plantation Manager

Gray Beard – 2nd Main Captain

Jason – Latin American Head of Computer Systems - Communications Geek

Chapter 112 - Alisha

JR could only wait until Wednesday afternoon, before he dialed Alisha’s cell number. This is Joe Kass, Alisha?

Yes… Kass? JK, or JR; what does the R stand for?

Actually nothing; my dad’s name is Joe so they always called me JR, kind of like the abbreviation for junior, Joe Junior; you can call me Joe, or JR, it doesn’t matter, or Joseph, I don’t care

Okay, Joe Junior.

How about you break away from your books for a little while and go to dinner with me?

Yeah…yeah…where?"

You know the town; make us reservations at the nicest place this little city has to offer.

That would be André’s

Okay, try to set it up for around 8 or so; that way I’ll get you home early.

I’m a big girl now; there is no rush.

I don’t want to hurt your grades."

You’re going to drive?

If you can put up with a rental car?

Okay, I’ll call over there; I’ll call you back…

Down in Costa Rica, out of the clear blue sky one day, Sheldon said, …Let’s move over to the new resort; it has bathroom temporary fixtures in Tony’s suite, the kitchen downstairs is where we eat lunch at anyway, we’ll move another couple cooks over there, we can move a couple maids over there to get started too…let’s do it tomorrow...

Linda asked, Who?

All of us; you, Melissa, me, and Jeanne too. It’s not beautiful yet, just concrete. You ladies can pick out the materials for everything in the suites; walls, floor, ceiling, fixtures, everything; you can create the place…

Linda commented, The baby is going to come now, any day.

It’s closer to town than here, and we’ll be right by the plane if you feel like going into San Jose…we can bring several extra maids to do everything; you will just have to point…

Melissa added, It’s almost like we live there anyway, we are there all day.

After breakfast the next morning, the girls loaded all their stuff into the stretch Hummer, and the kitchen vans, and then the workers helped them make many runs over there, and carried everything up the real high stairs to Tony’s future suite. (It’s a long time before the elevator will be going; it’s about 7 meters (23 feet) up to the second floor over the high ceilings of the kitchens, restaurants, bar, and offices).

Tony told them, Go to the furniture store in Quepos and get some temporary furniture for the next few weeks, then later you can go to San Jose and get the more permanent stuff; don’t worry about over buying, we’ll just move that stuff to the workers houses we will build later anyway… get a few more kitchen tables and chairs for downstairs too. That improved Linda’s mood as they spent the rest of the day buying a lot of little stuff as well as the furniture.

The cooks had already set up a temporary kitchen, in the area that will later be the salad preparation area, and the construction crews were eating and drinking good already.

The cooks set up a buffet on the one big table that they had, and 34 people had lunch sitting anywhere they could. (Most of the other workers bring their lunch or go home).

A few hours later, Sheldon asked, I thought you were going to get some more tables and chairs?

Melissa answered, "Duh, they will get delivered this afternoon; all that stuff wouldn’t fit in the little Hummer if we made 20 trips."

Good.

Linda and Melissa were up in the area that will eventually be their huge suite/apartment. The plans were on a table and they were looking at them. They asked Sheldon later, The plans show glass windows between the inside of the living area and the patio; can we get it so the glass will roll away into a wall, and have a louver and screens wall that will also roll away?

Wow, we already have the storm door rolling down from the top, like an industrial garage door; that would make three walls to disappear; that would be slick; I’ll talk to Armin about that…

Linda added, A roll out awning or something over the spa would be good too for when it’s raining.

"Yes…oh… yes…a roll out arrangement instead of a rolling down; it could come out to just over the spa or continue out to the edge of the balcony, even go down out there past the edge, so the water would run off out there… Yes I could see making that hurricane proof; we could do it in 6 meter (20 foot) sections along the entire 120 meters (400 feet) of balcony. We’ll have Armin figure out a way to make it look right like pillars or something; yeah, some kind of arches with the tracks in it… we’ll make it look good by having more potted plants that can stay there during the storms… it will be good…"

Melissa said, Wow, we were just thinking of over the spa.

This is better; in normal weather they will all stay rolled-up in their boxes, but the one over the spa can have a special control that you can work from the spa, by the other controls… same with the spa on Tony’s end… We may only have to roll the others out once every few years… This is great; then we don’t have to build the other windows to withstand a storm…

That afternoon Sheldon called Nadine to come down and discuss the housing project for the workers.

While they were waiting a guy showed up, looking for Mister Sheldon, …My name is Mister James Wilson, I’m a cousin to Ryan Wilson that sold you the farm east of here, and leased it back. I have a farm up in the mountains that you might want to do the same deal with?

Up in the mountains? His farm was here where we can expand onto… what are your crops?

The hilly part is coffee beans, and the flat part is mostly mangoes, but I have a lot of tomatoes too… plus we have a little garden for ourselves and our family in town too.

How far is it away?

"About 10 Km (6 miles) the way the roads go. It’s paved about ½ of the trip, and good gravel for a ways more. But the last 2 Km (1 ¼ miles) is…well it needs a 4-wheel drive; although my 2-wheel drive truck makes it most of the time."

You want to sell it and lease it back?

Yes, I have five children and they would like to go to college in the United States or England; so I need lots of money.

Okay; we need lots of coffee, and lots of tomato juice would be good too…mangoes too… Okay wait a few minutes and we’ll follow you up there and check it out.

They waited for Nadine, and then Sheldon and Nadine followed him in a Hummer. It was about 1,780 Km2 (440 acres), but some of it was too steep to farm. It needed a lot of work on the driveway to make it 100% reliable for trucks. Sheldon tried to use his cellphone to call the lawyer in San Jose, but it didn’t work.

James said, We have a telephone.

Sheldon said, You have a telephone now, wait until our data guys set you up; you will have a phone that works for free anywhere in the world…

Later, Sheldon and Nadine went back to work on the housing plans:

Sheldon decided to build the houses and the cannery on the east side of the road, so all of the west side could be used for resort and airport expansion.

He ordered another special golf cart with trailers; this time with even more solar cells and batteries in every trailer, so it could make many runs to the housing area after dark.

Sandy called Sheldon, …I have just read in a magazine that Sweden has the highest percentage of people with vacation homes where the weather is better in the winter, 1/5 of the population.

Well you just told yourself what you need to do.

What?

Advertise there, big-time.

Well, yeah; that’s what I’m calling about; our satellite radio goes there, right?

Yes, so we need even more advertising over there…

Okay…I’ll find an advertising agency over there…

The old sea captain called Sheldon, interrupting Sandy’s call, he was all excited. "…I found an even better price on diesel and fuel oil in Aruba. I was talking to a guy there while we were waiting for the oil to load. His wife works for a resort that’s going to close; some people from India bought it and ran it aground. He says it’s a real shame; it used to be a nice place. You might be able to get it for a decent price. It would take a lot of work to fix it up because they fired all the maintenance workers a few years ago. You can’t do a farm here though; there is no dirt and no water, it’s all rocks, sand, and coral... The beaches are beautiful... Oh, I’ll be there tomorrow night with some oil, six trucks of furniture from Belize, two trailers of groceries from Texas, and a lot of lumber from Belize; it will take a forklift truck all day to unload it…"

Fuck’n timing; and Lori’s up in the states; I guess she can schedule it over the phone… So tell me more about this place; does it have a golf course?

Sort of, they don’t put enough water on it so most of the grass died, he says; I can’t picture much grass being there at all, water is real expensive there… The place is oriented to the nice beaches… it might get boring there too quick…

Sheldon thought about going to check it out but decided he better stick around until after Linda pops. He spent the night with her in the room she set up for herself.

In the morning she almost made it down to breakfast, but ½ way down the long stairs she said, It’s time, as she started juicing the water. Sheldon helped her down the stairs the rest of the way and carried her to the Hummer. Melissa drove them to the miniature hospital in Quepos and little Janis Stern shot out as soon as she was laid down.

Picture by Julie Winquist

Sheldon had shut off his cellphone and didn’t realize that Lori had arrived to deal with the ship and truckers, but she found out about Linda and went there to visit her.

Much later in the day, Sheldon called the lawyer in San Jose to deal with the coffee farm.

Sandy and Loraine ended up being the only ones to fly down to Aruba. They stayed at the resort they were looking at. The large lobby was cluttered with old furniture, and was sort of the back office for the place. It smelled bad from their cooking using too much curry. The price for a room with two large beds was roughly $50; for a resort this was extremely low, but for the gross shape the room was in it was high.

They nosed around the place and found that the restaurant/bar was closed down, so they walked into the town and found many restaurants, but they were sort of working class places targeting the workers of the oil refinery, and so on.

They noticed that there were several currencies in usage, and a variety of languages.

Next they found a bar, also working grade, and drank a little wine’; naturally, they got into conversations with the local men, that were hitting on them. It was also a mixture of languages here, but Papiamento (a Spanish – Portuguese – Dutch – English combination) was the predominate one and enough people knew some English and Spanish to talk to Sandy.

The people could remember when the resort was full of tourists, but now only an occasional one wandered into this particular bar.

When they got back to the resort, they were fixing to play with their toys, they discovered that the mattress was awful; it and the carpet should have been changed 10 years ago.

The next morning they went into the office to talk to the owner who spoke English with an Indian and British accent that was very hard to understand. His price was $10,500,000; this turns out to be exactly 350 rooms times $30,000 US dollars; way too high. He wouldn’t accept the fact that he was never going to get that much money; there was no way the place could be generating enough money to pay a mortgage on half that amount. They walked out disappointed.

Loraine said, "Let’s find out who holds the mortgage."

Sandy answered, "Yes, let’s see if we can look it up on the internet."

There was no Wi-Fi signal, so they walked over to an internet café. All the government data was in Dutch, so they were going to get another customer in there to translate; but he said, The government office that deals with the real estate is that blue and white building right over there…

A $50 tip got them the name and address of the bank’s real estate mortgage office.

They took a cab to the location and walked in. Within fifteen seconds, they were past the formalities and in the main banker’s office. They were happy to see that some rich Americans might get them out of their extremely bad loan. …The balance of the loan today would be…let’s see… $3,946,872.26, as calculated into American money… we don’t feel the place is worth quite that, or for sure it won’t be; it’s going down very fast over there… If you can get a lump sum payment of …say…a million dollars, or so, we’ll transfer the loan balance to your company… that would be $2,946,872.26.

Loraine asked Sandy, Do you want to do it?

It looks good to me…we need mattresses and carpets, it isn’t full, so there will be plenty rooms open for workers to be in… Hum…if we put it on the web tomorrow we could get it up to 25% full, counting the existing customers, in a few weeks…it should ramp up to 90% by fall… Am I looking at this right?

Yeah, it sounds too easy; but I think your numbers are right… The restaurant, bar, and golf course will kill a lot of money to get going good…I bet there isn’t 3 good golf carts out there… If we pushed it on the South American satellite feeds, it could bring your cash flow up good; it’s going into winter in Argentina and Chile. Are you and I going to do the set up?

Yeah, it would have to be, everyone else is already busy on projects right now…at least for a few weeks until we can get some local manager up to speed…

Loraine opened her briefcase and extracted a little printer; she connected it to her laptop computer, and printed out a cashier’s check. Thirty seconds later, she ripped the copies apart and handed the banker the check. He said, "This is hard to believe. He got on the phone to check it out; about a minute later he said, Damn; it’s good! So we need to draw up the transaction paperwork; that will take my girls until tomorrow morning… I’ll send a team of security guys over there to give them their 24-hour notice to pay the $3,946,872.26 by this time tomorrow or be gone! We’ll leave the guards there to make sure everything goes smooth… What do you want to do about the customers that are already there?"

Sandy answered, "Let them enjoy their stay; we’ll honor all prepaid deposits and reservations; we want everyone to be happy. Now we need mattresses and carpets quick."

Oh, there isn’t much stock here; it needs to come from Venezuela or other countries. There is a furniture store about two streets east of here, they have some stock, but can get stuff over from Venezuela in a few days… Carpets…hum… oh; over toward the oil tanks there is a carpet store… I’ll write it down so the cab drivers can read it…

Sandy said, I’ll get carpets, you get mattresses, well meet back at the hotel in an hour or so… don’t have them start the deliveries until about 4:00 tomorrow afternoon…we don’t want any trouble with the India guy.

The banker said, There is no way the guy can come up with the 3.9 million in 24 hours… You can start…let’s see…about noon. If it’s going to be two ladies running the place, we’ll provide you with a pair of guards 24/7 for two weeks, until you can get your own security crew going…

Sandy said, Thanks… Oh; we need to start a corporation here to be the actual owner; where are the corporate offices?

We can fill out everything here, then you can just make one trip to file everything; I’ll send Jim to show you everything…

Loraine added, We need a bank here too.

Yes, of course we do that; he called in a lady to set them up.

While Loraine was dealing with that Sandy called the computer guys that were in Costa Rica, …We are getting another resort in Aruba… we need a complete set up: lobby, offices, golf starter, restaurant, bar, and some more that I can’t think of…TV stuff too…Internet too… Maybe get it all staged at the North Las Vegas airport and we can get a 737 to bring it all down tomorrow…

The computer geek said, "Relax Sandy; you don’t need to panic like that… We have a supply of stuff in Costa Rica that can be sidetracked without slowing down that project… Sheldon has gone overboard on stocking stuff there early. We even have a lot of the paper stuff…oh what name is it going to be?"

"I don’t know…probably just Green Inn Aruba for now…It’s irrelevant just bring whatever you have for now, no one will know the difference for a couple weeks… Get it all lined up for a flight in the morning, maybe one or two of you can break loose from there for a week or get some other people moving from Las Vegas… You can get someone to fly stuff from Costa Rica tomorrow too… Whatever works…?"

Sandy asked the banker that was still sitting at his desk listening to all the activity, Is there some kind of employment office; we need to hire a lot of workers fast?

"Oh, no; I’ll call my friend at the newspaper; he will come and do a story about the girls from Las Vegas buying the resort and putting it back in shape; you will have hundreds of people wanting to get their old jobs back, everyone that worked there for the last twenty years will show up…"

Ah, good.

The carpet store didn’t have much in stock so she bought just about all of it. Some of it was loud Caribbean stuff, and different rooms would get different carpets. They were scheduled to arrive with a serious crew at noon the next day, and would start with the lobby. They would expedite the remaining rolls from Venezuela to be there in two days.

The furniture store had 23 mattresses in stock, including the displays. They were going to load all of them onto two trucks and be there at noon. They would sort out the sizes and take back the ones that couldn’t go anywhere. They planned to burn the old, possibly infested, ones in a big fire out on the golf course.

Sandy got back first to discover that the skinny little India guy was pissed. Him and his fat old-lady were jabbering in their version of English, "Eeeeeeeee Eeeeeeeee, you fucked me, eeeeeeeee you fucked me, eeeeeeeee", like a stuck pig. Sandy was glad the team of big security guys was standing there watching them.

They couldn’t make the phones work so they went to the internet café to communicate on the internet, and where the cell phones worked too.

They called the various departments to get all the supplies started flowing. It was all the little things that the Green Inns had needed, plus the stuff for the golf course and little pro shop, plus an entire restaurant and bar. Then they got Lori to start a daily flight from Belize, to Quepos, to Aruba, and back every day with a King Air for now and then a Q-400 as soon as one is ready in a week or so.

When they got back to the resort there was a guy standing there waiting for them, talking to the guards, …Good evening ladies; I understand you have purchased this resort; I would like to apply for my old job back if it’s open?

Sandy asked, What was your job?

I repaired the golf carts; is the position open?

You got it dude, start tomorrow at noon…

Oh, thank you mum…

…And, if you can find a few helpers too; we want to make them all new again; new tires, upholstery, batteries, paint, and a solar canopy to charge them…

Maybe three helpers then... My uncle has an automotive paint shop; we can send the pieces there when they are apart for a real nice paint job.

You’re our man, forest green, like the leaves on that tree…take one of the leaves to him to match the color… except make it real shiny

When they popped out of their door in the morning, another man was standing there, …I was a bartender…

Sandy cut him off, "Good! Find some helpers and start cleaning the place up right now…

Now?

Oh yes. I know many people, many worked here before; how many do you want?

How about ten workers in the kitchen, ten waitresses, and four more bartenders to start with... they all start now?

Yes, let’s figure four days for cleaning and getting stocked up, during the days, then we’ll figure out shifts later…

A couple from the Netherlands arrived about 10 AM, Sandy went out to greet them, "…We are just purchasing this resort and the deal closes at noon; this place is not up to our standards, we are not going to charge you for your stay."

Yeaaaaah, not clean.

We’ll put you in a room now because you look tired, then we’ll switch you to a cleaned-up room this evening…

About fifteen minutes until noon the head guard told the India guy, You only have fifteen minutes left to get the rest of your stuff out of there.

"Eeee Eeeeeeeee Eeeeeeeee, what am I to do, eeeeeeeee."

Put it over there on the corner of the parking lot where it’s not in their way.

Now?

Now!

The banker was right; there was a steady stream of people coming to apply for jobs, even before the newspaper article was printed. By four PM, they had a fairly complete crew, including the previous supervisors and managers. The only shortage was on the maintenance workers and painters, but they knew they would get plenty once the newspaper article is printed.

One old maintenance guy came to Sandy, The water heater in the restaurant is leaking real bad, so we bypassed it.

Shit, we can’t even clean up the place without hot water; let’s get a new one right away…

The guy that was cleaning