{"id":237192,"date":"2022-10-12T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=237192"},"modified":"2022-10-13T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T22:49:30","slug":"steve-wynn-no-obligation-to-register-as-chinese-agent-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/steve-wynn-no-obligation-to-register-as-chinese-agent-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wynn Had No Obligation to Register as Chinese Agent, Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Wynn<\/a> does not have to register as a Chinese agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a federal judge in Washington ruled Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"Steve
Steve Wynn, above, was accused by the DOJ of illegally lobbying the Trump administration on behalf of Beijing. (Image: Rome Sentinel<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

US District Judge James E. Boasberg made no determination about whether Wynn had illegally lobbied the Trump administration on Beijing\u2019s behalf, as alleged in a Department of Justice lawsuit. But he said he was satisfied that any contact the casino mogul may have had with Chinese officials ended in 2017. He added that the government has no legal authority to compel Wynn to register retroactively.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the goals of FARA are laudable, this Court is bound to apply the statute as interpreted by the D.C. Circuit. And that requires dismissal,\u201d Boasberg wrote.<\/p>\n

The DOJ sued Wynn in May, alleging he attempted to influence then-President Donald Trump to deport a Chinese dissident, Guo Wengui, to China.<\/p>\n

Dinner with Trump<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The lawsuit claimed he held \u201cmultiple discussions\u201d with Trump and senior officials in 2017 about Guo. This included discussing the matter directly with Trump during dinner and providing Guo\u2019s passport photos to the president\u2019s secretary.<\/p>\n

The DOJ said Wynn exhorted Trump to \u201ccancel the visa or otherwise remove [Guo] from the United States.\u201d At the time, Wynn was finance chair of the Republican National Congress.<\/p>\n

Billionaire Guo fled the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 2014 after learning he was about to be arrested on corruption charges. He claims the charges had been falsified because he had blown the whistle on corruption among Chinese politicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wynn was persuaded to conspire against his fellow billionaire by then-RNC Deputy Finance Chairman Elliot Broidy<\/a>\u00a0and Sun Lijun, then-vice minister of the PRC\u2019s Ministry of Public Security, according to the DOJ.<\/p>\n

Wynn believed his actions would help safeguard his operations in Macau at a time of heightened political tensions between the US and China, the lawsuit stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted that the District Court today dismissed the government\u2019s ill-conceived lawsuit against Steve Wynn,\u201d Wynn\u2019s attorneys, Reid Weingarten and Robert Luskin said in a statement. \u201cMr. Wynn never acted as an agent of the Chinese government and never lobbied on its behalf. This is a claim that should never have been filed, and the Court agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chinese Official Gets Death Sentence<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Last month, Sun, Wynn\u2019s alleged contact in Beijing, was sentenced to death<\/a> after a court convicted him in China of manipulating the stock market, accepting $91 million in bribes, selling official jobs, and abandoning his post during the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n

Chinese state media accused him of being part of a \u201cpolitical clique\u201d that was disloyal to President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Wynn resigned as RNC finance chair in 2018 amid allegations of sexual misconduct against female casino employees, which he denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Wynn does not have to register as a Chinese agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a federal judge in Washington ruled Wednesday. US District Judge James E. Boasberg made no determination about whether Wynn had illegally lobbied the Trump administration on Beijing\u2019s behalf, as alleged in a Department of Justice lawsuit. 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