I yesterday posted an article on gambling .  Today I'll look at whales, the betting kind and the largest animal ever in the history of Planet Earth. I'll start with some interesting  Homo sapiens  operating in casinos,  famous human whales . An unusual one is Zhenli Ye Gon. He was born in Shanghai in 1963, and moved to Mexico in the 1990s, becoming a citizen in 2002. He owned Unimed Pharm ChemMexico and other companies, and in the early to mid 2000 decade, legally imported thousands of metric tons of psueudoephedrine and ephedrine from Asia to Mexico. These are used in cold medications such as Sudafed, but is valuable to manufacturers of methamphetamine. Between 2004 and 2007, he was an ultimate whale, and lost over $125 million at the Venetian in Las Vegas in his attempt at money laundering. Las Vegas Sands, operator of the Venetian-Palazzo hotel complex, returned $47.4 million to the Feds in 2013 to avoid criminal prosecution. Linked  to Sinaloa Cartel. In 200...

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