China wants bank fraudsters returned from ‘Vegas vacation’

The $482 million Bank of China money laundering case, which ended in conviction and lengthy sentences for the defendants in Las Vegas, is taking a new turn.

  Not that anyone in Southern Nevada seems to care, but indulge me on this one. For some reason, I’ve always thought half-billion-dollar

money laundering cases newsworthy.

  Now the Chinese government wants the bank officials and their wives who were convicted in the case repatriated. The request could raise big questions about how the United States treats its prisoners not of this country. There are plenty of examples of foreign nationals from Cuba and Mexico squatting in U.S. prisons for decades without a thought given to sending them back to their native country.

  These strangers from China, these bank officials, arrived in Las Vegas and began gambling from $20,000 to $80,000 per hand.