The unlikely business partners of one of the world's biggest casino companies.
Illustration by Aaron Sacco.
This is the conclusion of a two-part series on how Wynn Resorts, one of the world’s biggest casino operators, pursued a deal to acquire land in Macau’s Cotai Strip from a pair of Chinese businessmen.
Steve Wynn has said it was a simple real estate deal: In 2005, when Wynn Resorts wanted to build a second casino in Macau, China's fast-growing gambling hub, the government told him the land had already been committed to someone — a man named Ho Ho. In order to get access to the land, Wynn
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