LAS VEGAS, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Authorities are investigating Las Vegas Sands Corp. and several of its executives for allegedly failing to report possible money-laundering, officials said.
The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles in investigating whether the casino company was willfully blind to the transfers of large amounts of money into the casino from a Mexican businessman, who was later accused of drug trafficking, and a former California executive now serving prison time for taking illegal kickbacks, The Wall Street Journal reported.