Lutnick Seizes Las Vegas With Cantor Fitzgerald’s Bet on Sports

In his ground-level office on a back street of Las Vegas, Lee Amaitis is worlds away from the 15-story building in London where he served as the second in command at Cantor Fitzgerald LP until 2008. Rather than looking at the Tower of London on the River Thames from his office, he now has a view of men entering and leaving Sheri’s Cabaret, featuring “Hot Fully Nude Girls.’’

The cabaret is part of the Las Vegas scene that Amaitis, who today heads Cantor Entertainment Technology Inc., thrives in. He shellacs his hair back Gordon Gekko-style and wears the collar of his white shirt wide open. With a swagger typical of a casino high roller, Amaitis says he plans to turn Cantor, one of the world’s largest brokers of government bonds, into a sports-gambling powerhouse, too, Bloomberg Markets reports in its June issue.