A casino marketing director for the MGM Resorts in Springfield, Massachusetts, said he openly discriminates against whites during the hiring process.
“No matter how great they [Whites] look on paper, they don’t fit well with my team,” Albie Velarde, the Director of Casino Marketing at MGM Springfield told an undercover OMG journalist.
“I will purposefully look for those diverse-based hires,” he admitted.
Albie Velarde also revealed that MGM closely tracks the racial makeup of its workforce with HR providing monthly reports.
Velarde said, “At a [MGM] property level, HR sends us, every month when they send us our turnover summary of the month, they’ll point out this month we lost this amount of females versus males.”
These turnover summary reports influence hiring decisions, according to Velarde: “Hey guys, we’re losing all of our female workforce. Let’s try, you know, let’s put more females through the pipeline.”
Velarde also told the undercover journalist that they take race and gender into account when hiring employees to replace others who have left the company.
“So like if I lose one of my female hosts, I would try to replace her with a female,” Velarde said. “Selena, she’s my Vietnamese host, she’s very reserved, she’s very quiet. But that’s her culture. I would replace her with somebody who is, in some capacity, that culture.”
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MGM Casino Marketing Director: ‘I’m not going to hire Whites,’ Favors Candidates Based on DEI Principles: “I’d Probably Hire the African American”
“No matter how great they [Whites] look on paper, they don’t fit well with my team.”
“I will purposefully look for those… pic.twitter.com/yJYFeNRvYg
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 20, 2025
MGM Resorts responded to the O’Keefe Media Group’s request for comment.
“This person did not have hiring authority during his employment at MGM Springfield and these comments do not reflect the company’s policies or practices,” MGM Resorts said.
JUST IN: MGM Resorts (@MGMResortsIntl) has provided the following statement to O’Keefe Media Group:
“This person did not have hiring authority during his employment at MGM Springfield and these comments do not reflect the company’s policies or practices.” https://t.co/z7LkLbDuVr pic.twitter.com/dvbo5jTH3j
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 20, 2025
