PREVIEW: SAIPAN CASINO: Colleague Cleo Paskal of FDD reports that the FBI has now closed an investigation into alleged PRC corruption on the US territory of Saipan in the Marianas. More to come.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:59.9 | Saipan, part of the United States of America, Marianas. A casino built there several years ago |
| 1:08.4 | by its Chinese turned into a major moneymaker for someone and then it |
| 1:14.5 | went away the casino lies pretty much decrepit today in Saipan however there was an investigation |
| 1:22.9 | opened many years ago after 2018 article in the Bloomberg, |
| 1:29.6 | about the possibility that the casino money was corrupting the local government in Saipan and in the northern Marianas. |
| 1:40.8 | The investigation went forward and just concluded by the FBI choosing not to move against anyone |
| 1:47.5 | or to make any more charges, the investigation has ended. |
| 1:52.2 | It's a puzzle to Cleo, given the present governor of the Saipan, says that you can look at our books, something's wrong. |
| 2:03.9 | Well, indeed, Saipan is part of the story of the People's Republic of China making |
| 2:10.5 | inroads into all the governance of Oceania. |
| 2:14.0 | And here Cleo tells a story that has an end, but we haven't found it yet. |
| 2:18.8 | Cleo Pascal on the corruption alleged of Saipan, the United States of America territory, by using |
| 2:28.3 | a casino, gambling money, and unrestricted incoming of tourism from mainland China. |
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