The amount Las Vegas Sands Corp. owes to the company owned by one-time consultant Richard Suen grew by nearly half to $101.6 million in the final judgment signed Tuesday by Clark County District Judge Rob Bare.
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The sometimes nasty legal battle that Cantor Gaming launched two years ago against former executive Joseph Asher has now extended to arch rival William Hill PLC.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board confirmed Monday that it is investigating Cantor Gaming and the Las Vegas-based company’s former sports book director, Mike Colbert.
In a verdict challenged just four minutes after it was read, a 12-person jury awarded Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen $70 million for the consulting work he did a dozen years ago to help Las Vegas Sands Corp. enter the booming Macau market.
Jury deliberations in the Richard Suen case were interrupted on Monday afternoon after one of the jurors sent Clark County District Judge Rob Bare a note asking to be kept separate from the rest of the jury.
With all the publicity that has followed the CityCenter construction defects case, it never figured to be easy to find an impartial jury.
The jury in a breach of contract case against casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. began deliberations Friday after hearing sharply conflicting stories from lawyers about the role a Hong Kong businessman played in helping Las Vegas Sands gain entry to the lucrative Macau gambling market.
For more than a month, jurors in the Richard Suen trial have heard a lengthy roster of Chinese names, customs, and sections of constitutional law, all in a jumbled time sequence.
Sheldon Adelson ended the suspense on Tuesday night by deciding to forgo another trip to the witness stand in the breach of contract case brought by former Las Vegas Sands Corp. consultant Richard Suen.
For several days, company attorneys had hinted that the chairman and CEO might opt for another crack at persuading the jurors that Suen deserved nothing for his work in trying to win a Macau gaming license more than a decade ago. Suen, on the other hand, contends he had mapped out a winning strategy that is worth $328 million, based a $5 million success fee plus 2 percent of Sands’s net profits in Macau.
In trying to convince jurors that former Las Vegas Sands Corp. consultant Richard Suen should be paid for his work, an expert on Chinese business and politics who testified Monday had the unwitting endorsement of a proverb that decorates a courthouse wall.