(((Since they busted Zhenli, apparently chowing down at an Asian restaurant in the Beltway, Zhenli news has been busting out all over.
Did this guy really throw away 125 million at the tables in Vegas?
Gosh, that's downright careless – unless he was pretending to lose 125 million while laundering 1.25 billion.)))
KESQ.com Palm Springs, Coachella Valley - Weather, News, Sports: Girlfriend of accused drug trafficker detained in Las Vegas.
Girlfriend of accused drug trafficker detained in Las Vegas
Associated Press - July 24, 2007 8:34 PM ET LAS VEGAS (AP) - The girlfriend of accused drug trafficker Zhenli Ye Gon appeared US District Court in Las Vegas today (Tuesday).
Prosecutors say 26-year-old Michelle Wong is the mother of the Chinese-Mexican businessman's 17-month-old son. (((I wonder what you wear to a court in Vegas when you're the 26-year-old mistress of Chinese-Mexican speed-dealing zillionaire.)))
She was charged with felony counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Ye Gon is accused of making 36,000 kilograms of a precursor chemical to methamphetamine and illegally smuggling it into the United States. He was arrested at an Asian restaurant near Washington D.C. on Monday.
Prosecutors say Wong received up to $1.5 million from Ye Gon and used the money to buy jewelry, two Mercedes Benzes and a $1.1 million Las Vegas home. (((Good girls go to heaven, while bad girls fire up one of the Mercedes Benzes and go by the casino for some politicized narcoterror black-globalization.)))
US Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leavitt denied bail for Wong and ordered her taken to Washington DC where the charges were filed.
Authorities say Ye Gon was a high roller in Las Vegas and lost $125 million at Las Vegas casinos since 2004.
