June 30th 2018
“I only have a daughter.”
These were the last words of Lilly (Rong) Li, before she was strangled to death by two men in May, 2006. She was abducted, robbed and murdered after leaving her shift at River Rock Casino.
But Li wasn’t a River Rock employee, she was a loan shark.
More accurately, as evidence at the trial for her murder showed, she was a single mother working for a loan shark employer, a man who maintained his own full-time staff inside River Rock Casino. Li herself was probably just getting by, like so many others caught in low-level gang roles. Her killers were gamblers who thought she was carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars.
She only had $500 cash, but by the time they found that out, none of it mattered.
Her killers buried her in a shallow grave on Jericho Beach, where her remains lay all summer, until they were found in September.
Dirty Money, Peter German’s report on money-laundering in our casinos may have caused a sensation on Wednesday, but Attorney-General David Eby flinched when he should have landed the knockout blow.
There will be no looking back to assess blame, no naming names. What’s done is done. Let’s just patch things up and move this along, Eby may as well have said.
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
This is too big. The public interest demands accountability from cabinet ministers, officials, and law enforcement agencies who so clearly abrogated their duty.
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