(This story accompanies a Special Report: Casino’s attempt to
collect debt exposes world of Chinese high-rollers)
By Joel Schectman
Here, in the city of glitz
and promise, just a few poor plays can bury a gambler under a
tower of debt. And when a player doesn’t repay the loans, Las
Vegas has power to employ a tool unavailable to most every other
creditor: jail.
Las Vegas Justice Court sits two miles from the cacophony of
the Vegas strip, in a sparsely developed area of downtown dotted
with bail bond shops. Vices of the strip – prostitution, fights,
drug possession – are adjudicated in this court.
In a windowless basement of the courthouse sits Las Vegas’
most fearsome debt collector: the Clark County District
Attorney’s …
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