Hello all Crazy Chicagoan Fans, I am back from my hiatus... You will be getting a flurry of new posts in the upcoming days. Also, those of you who have been promised shirts, they went out today so you should be getting them shortly. Sorry for the delay.
Anyway today's post is about a story I read in the news, let me highlight it for.
A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mexican official told The Associated Press.
Zhenli Ye Gon's lawyers, who are fighting efforts to extradite him to Mexico from the United States, vehemently deny their client admitted anything illegal and call the report misinformation intended to sway public opinion against him.
Mexico's deputy attorney general in charge of extraditions, Leopoldo Velarde Ortiz, said U.S. prosecutors told him about conversations with Ye Gon in which he said he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market.
The information was given to Mexican authorities "informally" and U.S. officials have not yet provided transcripts of the conversations or specifics of Ye Gon's account, Velarde said.
"We know that in the interviews he had with prosecutors in the United States, he admitted his responsibility in the commission of the crimes he was accused of," Velarde told AP in an interview this week.
Asked whether Ye Gon, 46, had admitted selling methamphetamine precursors on the black market, Velarde said: "That's it, exactly."
Spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said the Justice Department would have no comment.
The case against Ye Gon burst open in March 2007 when police raided his house in Mexico City's fanciest neighborhood and found more than $205 million in cash — mostly in $100 bills — stuffed into a closet and a wall. It was the largest drug-related cash seizure in history.
Ye Gon, who was born in Shanghai and became a Mexican citizen in 2002, was in the United States at the time; he kept a mistress and a Lamborghini in Las Vegas.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says Ye Gon lost more than $120 million gambling over the years, and Ye Gon himself spoke of betting $150,000 a hand at baccarat. He said he was such a treasured customer that the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino gave him a small token of its appreciation: a Rolls-Royce.
Where should I start? The fact that he has lost 120 million dollars gambling. How bad are you gambling, he must have taken the Washington Generals every night, I mean come on they a due for a win. Or the fact that he has kept a mistress and a Lambo in Vegas. Doesn't everyone have a mistress in vegas, they cost 100 bucks on any corner. Where does he keep this Lambo, why didn't he buy a house in vegas. Answer: When he went to pay for it in 100 dollar bills, the sellers got a little suspicious. My last and final question is why is a baller like this gambling at the Venetian? Cesar's anyone, Bellagio, Wynn, way nicer....
Here is the full article - pretty funny stuff.. I bet his mom makes a killer General Tso's Taco.
Crazy C going out for a ton of beers tonight ------ (Everyone watch out)
