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Couple suspected of theft escrow customers' cash to gamble - 2004-02-11
An Eastside couple yielded to federal agents yesterday on charges that they embezzled cash from their real estate escrow company and used it for gambling and drugs.

Two days later, he approved the wire transfer of $20,000 from the small boy's account to a bank account of the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. There was an additional $20,000 wire transfer from the boy's account to the casino two weeks after. The indictment sketches out other wire transfers as well.
Read the full story at Seattle Post Intelligencer

SkyCity acquires Darwin casino - 2004-02-11
Having been stopped from purchasing Perth's Burswood Casino by Kerry Packer last year, New Zealand gaming group SkyCity Entertainment yesterday made its additional big ticket acquisition in Australia, paying $195 million for the MGM Grand Casino in Darwin.

The transaction complements SkyCity's Adelaide casino, giving it a major gambling house at either end of the Darwin-Adelaide railway, which launched this month on finalization of the $1.3 billion Alice Springs-Darwin line.
Read the full story at The West Online