March 3, 2021
American casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corporation has announced the signing of deals that are to see it offload its remaining trio of domestic properties for an aggregate consideration worth roughly $6.25 billion.
The Las Vegas-headquartered firm used an official press release to detail that the arrangements will involve The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and its 3,000-room The Palazzo hotel as well as the nearby Sands Expo and Convention Center being sold to affiliates of global alternative investments firm Apollo Global Management Incorporated and the Vici Properties Incorporated real estate investment trust spun off by Caesars Entertainment Incorporated in 2017.
Pricey particulars:
Several Pennsylvania gaming properties and one in Atlantic City wound up getting fake bills last year, leading to the recent arrest of three suspects, with another person still on the loose.
Pennsylvania’s Wind Creek Bethlehem pictured above. It was the scene of the alleged passing of counterfeit bills in 2019. (Image: Wind Creek)
In total, $16,000 worth of 150 fake bills were passed at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem now called Wind Creek Bethlehem as well as Parx Casino, Valley Forge Casino Resort, Harrah’s casinos, and SugarHouse Casino now Rivers Casino Philadelphia, reported
Lehigh Valley Live.com, a local online news site.
Group used $16K in fake bills at then-Sands Bethlehem, 4 other casinos, AG says
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
A group from Philadelphia is accused of using thousands of dollars in counterfeit money last year at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem and four other Pennsylvania casinos.
Kiara Kristin Purnell, Mahagany White, Nieem Johnson and Marcus Davis allegedly passed a total of 150 fake bills in the spring of 2019 at the Sands (now Wind Creek Bethlehem), Parx, SugarHouse (now Rivers Casino Philadelphia), Valley Forge Resort and Harrah’s casinos.
Three have been arrested, and authorities are still looking for the 31-year-old Purnell.
The four each face charges of forgery, theft by deception, possessing instruments of crime and conspiracy in Bucks County Court. The charges were filed by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Gaming Enforcement.
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