New Jersey finds a Ho unsuitable

  Pansy Ho, right, daughter of Macau gambling king Stanley Ho and a partner with MGM Mirage in a casino venture in the Asian enclave, has been determined to be unsuitable by New Jersey gaming regulators due to her father’s suspected connections to Triad organized crime.

  This is thought to be the first time a Ho was ever prevented from working in Atlantic City.

  The decision will likely be downplayed here in Nevada, where we like to claim our system of gaming regulation is the best. After all, I’ll wager there’s nothing the New Jersey regulators learned about Ho that wasn’t available to Nevada casino watchdogs.

  The decision leaves MGM Mirage particularly vulnerable to criticism from its competition. (In fact, there’s some suspicion that its Ho issues were generated by some of that competition.)

  If this doesn’t motivate MGM to dump out what it knows about its casino industry enemies, then nothing will. Of course, MGM has a lot of big questions facing it these days. Perhaps its bosses are too busy putting out other fires to worry about such things.