The retired casino executive pointed to a pair of Harrah's properties, one in Reno and the other about an hour-and-a-half drive away in South Shore Lake Tahoe, on the Nevada side of the lake, which have had "little capital improvements" due to the bankruptcy of parent company, Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. (The company's largest operating unit emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2017, and Eldorado Resorts purchased Caesars Entertainment for $17.3 billion this year.)