The Nevada Supreme Court has given Sands China Ltd. a temporary reprieve from monetary sanctions levied against the company last month, but the court refused to interfere with other penalties imposed in the case.
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A former Station Casinos employee was sentenced to 366 days in federal prison Thursday for tax evasion related to a scheme to accept under-the-table payments related to his job.
Darren Phua pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge stemming from a betting scheme set up in a luxury villa at Caesars. Prosecutors say the operation involved millions of dollars in illegal wagers on the 2014 World Cup.
District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez has ordered hefty sanctions against Las Vegas Sands subsidiary Sands China Ltd. for improperly withholding documents related to an ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit.
A Las Vegas judge is mulling what, if any, sanctions to impose on Sands China Ltd. for redacting personal information from documents the company produced out of Macau in January 2013.
Ray Marion Cuddy, convicted of kidnapping the daughter of casino mogul Steve Wynn in 1994, in halfway house pending March 11 release.
A top Malaysian government official and his ruling political party have come under fire in light of his intervention in a high-profile Las Vegas illegal sports betting case.
The FBI had to move up a raid on an international gambling operation at Caesars Palace in July because word had slipped out about the investigation, a state gaming agent testified Wednesday.
Tutor Perini Corp., the general contractor behind CityCenter and a party in a massive construction defect case involving the development’s Harmon Hotel, said Wednesday it would receive “total net settlement proceeds” of approximately $189.5 million on its lien claims.
Calling their conduct “constitutionally abhorrent,” a federal judge recently chided government prosecutors for working in secret to keep millions of dollars in cash and assets seized from a Las Vegas gambler and his family in a decade-long bookmaking investigation.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling requiring Las Vegas Sands Corp. turn over documents in the company’s ongoing legal dispute with Steve Jacobs, who served as head of the company’s Macau operations until he was let go in 2010.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to three years probation Monday for his role in a lucrative illegal bookmaking operation.
An FBI-led raid shut down an illegal sports betting operation at Caesars Palace last week that authorities say was run by Malaysian and Chinese nationals who were taking wagers on the World Cup soccer tournament.
A lawsuit that accuses Boyd Gaming Corp. of failing to pay overtime wages may proceed as a national class action, a federal judge in Las Vegas has ruled.
An appellate court on Monday upheld a $19 million judgment against “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis in a slander case filed over his claims that casino mogul Steve Wynn had threatened to kill him.
