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His reward, he told his friends at the Mirage, has been "lots of sex and lots of Vegas." It may also be a jail sentence, but when confronted by CBS Reporter Mike Wallace, who filmed a 60 Minutes segment on the Mirage expose, Barasch said, "I'm not very worried about it. This has been going on for years. From the very beginning."

Whether it will continue to go on so brazenly in Chicago after the Sun-Times series remains to be seen. In November, their investigation complete, the Sun-Times sold the Mirage, warning the new owner to fix the building-code violations. After all, they might actually be enforced.