This week’s Inside Gaming shares news of the Las Vegas Sands paying big to end an SEC probe into its machinations in China and Macau, tells how efforts in Maine to build a casino have been thwarted by a judge’s ruling, and imparts some good news — for once! — regarding Atlantic City’s casinos.
Las Vegas Sands Agrees to Pay $9M to End SEC Probe
Following a lengthy, five-year investigation by the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation yesterday agreed to pay more than $9 million as a civil settlement, thereby putting an end to the probe into whether the company had broken a federal anti-bribery law after paying a consultant to help them in China and Macau, Reuters reports.