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By OSKAR GARCIA, The Associated Press 6:41 PM Monday, November 23, 2009

LAS VEGAS — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has offered a higher sum than Penn National Gaming Inc. to open bidding at a bankruptcy auction for theunfinished Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

A clerk in Miami for U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge A. Jay Cristol says Icahn offered $105 million on Monday to buy the project from debtors plus $51.5 million in funding to resume construction, which already has cost more than $2 billion.

Penn initially offered $50 million for the resort, which was about 70 percent complete when developers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June.

An auction will be held Jan. 21, with bids due Jan. 15 and qualifying bids announced by Jan. 19.

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November 23, 2009 11:39 PM EST

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