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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/0 ... 81628.htmlSheldon Adelson's Woes Mount With Grand Jury In Las Vegas Sands Money-Laundering Probe
The legal headaches besetting billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. now include a grand jury in Los Angeles, part of a federal money-laundering probe of his Nevada-based casinos, The Huffington Post has learned.
The involvement of a federal grand jury, not previously reported, suggests an escalation of the money-laundering investigation into Sands and one of its executives, being led by the U.S. attorney for Los Angeles, according to a person with direct knowledge of the inquiry. The person requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the grand jury’s work, which is not public.
Investigators are probing whether Sands broke money-laundering laws by failing to report millions in potentially questionable transfers of money several years ago by two-high rollers at its casinos. Both men have separately been charged with other crimes and one has since been sentenced to jail for accepting illegal kickbacks.
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The money-laundering inquiry is just one of the legal battles facing Adelson's international casino empire, which includes four casinos in Macau that produce more than half the company's annual revenues. Macau, like Hong Kong, is one of China's two special administrative regions, but unlike Hong Kong, Macau is the only place in China where casino gambling is legal.
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LadyJazzer wrote: Like Nixon said, "I am not a crook."
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Something the Dog Said wrote: So Fred believes that Republicans should be able to commit financial crimes, money laundering for Mexican drug lords without being investigated?
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