But when the Sands asked prosecutors to press criminal charges against Xiufei Yang (59) and Meie Sun (52) over the debts, their attorneys struck back with a surprising allegation.
Yang and Sun weren’t high-stakes gamblers, their attorneys said in court filings. They were local housekeepers, recruited with the co-operation 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. It means the real gamblers could play without a paper trail at the company’s Venetian and Palazzo casinos. Lawyers for the women describe them as the bottom rung of a network of hosts and handlers who court wealthy gamblers from China and sometimes help them play anonymous…
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