Poor Sheldon.. He just cant win.. Seems Sands Corp has been slapped again by Nevada Gaming for being a naughty naughty boy.. Honestly they got off easy if you ask me for what they did.. Below from Pokernews..



This week the Las Vegas Sands Corporation agreed to pay a $2 million fine levied by the Nevada Gaming Control Board following allegations that the company violated state gaming law.

VEGASINC reports the fine resulted from earlier federal-level allegations concerning accounting violations in China as well as failures to follow mandated anti-money-laundering practices in Las Vegas.

As we reported here last month, in April Las Vegas Sands reached a civil settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in order to end the SEC’s probe into whether or not the company had broken a federal anti-bribery law after paying a consultant to help them in China and Macau.

The SEC had charged the Sands had created a deceptive “middle man” whose purpose was to conceal the company’s effort to buy a Chinese Basketball Association team (which gaming companies cannot do), one of a couple of forbidden deals with which the representative was said to be involved for the Sands.

Over the course of the SEC’s five-year probe, it was the Commission's revelation that the Sands had kept inaccurate records and lacked other needed documentation regarding its dealings that in part prompted the NGCB’s decision to institute the fine.

Also prompting the measure was another agreement reached by the Sands with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2013 which involved the Sands returning $47.4 million to the U.S. Treasury to end another probe involving suspicious activity by a high roller, a suspected drug trafficker who’d wired conspicuously large transfers and cashier’s checks to the Venetian-Palazzo during 2005-2007. (See the Reuters story for more on that investigation and agreement.)

The Nevada Gaming Commission must now approve the settlement, and will meet next week to decide the matter.