When Las Vegas Sands Corp. asked Clark County prosecutors to press criminal charges against two Chinese women last year over $6.4 million in baccarat debts, attorneys for the pair struck back with a surprising allegation.
Xiufei Yang, 59, and Meie Sun, 52, werent high-stakes gamblers, their attorneys argue in court filings, saying instead that they were local housekeepers, allegedly recruited with the cooperation of Sands personnel to take out millions of dollars in credit in their names and sit near the players as they gambled with the borrowed chips.
The real gamblers then were allegedly able to play without a paper trail at The Venetian and Palazzo.
The attorneys for the women, Jeffrey Setness of the law firm Fabian VanCott and Kevin Ros…
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