If anyone were to suggest to a casino promoter that there is a relationship between organized crime, corruption and the big corporate casinos, the denials would fly faster than any cards from a professional dealer. This would be in spite of mounting international evidence to the contrary that U.S. regulators have discovered and begun to act upon.
Today, the lion’s share of the global profits of companies such as Las Vegas Sands Corp., MGM and Wynn (all vying for the Toronto casino) now come from Macau — a magnet for corruption and organized crime far beyond the reach of these same U.S. regulators.