Tahoe Gets Its Block Knocked Off

by The Editors on December 15, 2008

Block 1City of South Lake Tahoe officials swarmed Marc Frank Montoya’s The Block Hotel last Thursday (December 11, 2008) and shut the place down until the hotel can pay up on more than $100,000 in back taxes it owes the city.

Customers who occupied the hotel (Thursday) were allowed to stay, but the hotels will remain closed until the TOT is paid,” City Attorney Catherine DiCamillo said Friday. . . . The Block failed to pay TOT between January 2007 and January 2008, and owed penalties and interest from September and December 2006, according to the police statement. . . . Managing partner of the hotels — 37-year-old Las Vegas resident Eneliko Smith — appealed Vuletich’s decision to City Manager David Jinkens, who upheld the finance director’s decision on Nov. 21.

Smith said that the back taxes had not been paid because “financial records detailing the unpaid takes were lost.” Nice of the city to close the hotel right before the holidays, but it shouldn’t have been a surprise to Smith as he was arrested in September over the same issue.

The biggest bummer is for all the shreds who invested in this place and trusted Smith to run the business.

[Link: Tahoe Daily Tribune]

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dave December 16, 2008 at 6:49 am

MFM is clearly in over his head, and will end up broke. TEchnine, SOund, Block, etc etc etc. He played like he was smart, but not smart enuff.

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