How Jose Huizar's lavish Las Vegas jaunts tripped alarms for FBI in L.A. bribe case

[Demovictory9]

But when Palazzo security learned one day in July 2015 that the billionaire developer was bringing Los Angeles politician Jose Huizar to Las Vegas that night on the resort’s luxury Gulfstream IV, it set off alarms.

As a City Council member, Huizar was what casinos call a “politically exposed person.” He could gamble at the Palazzo only after filing papers showing he was not using public funds.

Palazzo dealers kept close watch on Huang and Huizar when they arrived hours later in Parlor 8, a room for high rollers who typically bet with $25,000 and $100,000 chips.

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With Huang and Huizar arriving soon on the jet, Palazzo staff looked up the councilman in the casino’s records. They realized he had gambled at the Palazzo on the same nights as Huang on the developer’s previous visits, but had not filed the “politically exposed person” disclosures known as “PEP” papers.

And they found Huizar had never bought any of the casino’s gambling chips; his “total lifetime drop” at the Palazzo was zero. Yet he’d cashed out $36,500 in chips that someone else had bought and taken the money, according to the FBI.


https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-08/jose-huizar-las-vegas-casino-fbi-corruption-investigation

[tanyev]

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This is the way we wash money so early in the morning.