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June 16, 2012

“How much money do you have to lose in the casino for them to give you a Rolls-Royce?”

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In 2007, Mexican authorities raided the home of Zhenli Ye Gon,
a Chinese-Mexican businessman who is believed to have supplied meth-precursor chemicals to the cartel, and discovered $206 million, the largest cash seizure in history. And that was the money Zhenli held onto — he was an inveterate gambler, who once blew so much cash in Las Vegas that one of the casinos presented him, in consolation, with a Rolls-Royce. “How much money do you have to lose in the casino for them to give you a Rolls-Royce?” Tony Placido, the D.E.A. intelligence official, asked. (The astonishing answer, in Zhenli’s case, is $72 million at a single casino in a single year.) --How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 16, 2012 12:37 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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