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Barry Diller’s Nevada Gambling License Application Delayed Amid Insider-Trading Probe

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The Nevada Gaming Commission today sent IAC Chairperson Barry Diller and CEO Joey Levin’s gambling license applications back to the Nevada Gaming Control Board for “further fact finding and investigation”.IAC has a 14% stake in MGM Resorts, after an initial $1 billion investment back in August 2020.

Diller and Levin are part of the board.The decision by the Nevada gambling regulator comes in the wake of Federal prosecutors and the SEC investigating Diller, Alexander von Furstenberg and David Geffen who reportedly made an unrealized $60 million profit on an Activision Blizzard options trade days before the videogame label was snapped up by Microsoft on Jan.

18.An IAC rep in an email response to Deadline said, “Mr. Diller’s license application was not rejected; the matter was simply delayed.

We expect no issues with respect to Mr. Diller’s application nor IAC’s.”The decision to delay Diller’s license application was made by Nevada Gaming Commission Chairwoman Jennifer Togliatti in a public meeting which also aired live on YouTube.

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