Casino tycoon Steve Wynn beats feds’ lawsuit over Chinese agent claims

Casino magna🐎te Steve Wynn c♌annot be ordered to register with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent of China, a federal judge in Washington, DC, said on Wednesday.

The Justice Department in May sued for a court order forcing Wynn, the former CEO of Wynn Casinos, to regis🐻ter under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Off൩icials alleged that Wynn lobbied th💎en-President Donald Trump on China’s behalf in 2017. Wynn’s attorneys denied that he was ever an agent of the Chinese government.

US Dist𝔉rict Judge James Boasberg said Wednesday that, because any relationship between Wynn and the Chinese government ended in 2017, t𝓡he Republican donor cannot be required to register as an agent. The judge pointed to past precedent in DC federal court in making the ruling.

The judge said he was not determining whether Wynn had lobbied on China’s behalfꩵ. He also said the Justice Department could pursue criminal sanctions against Wynn for failing to disclose the alleged lobbying, if the sta🎶tute of limitations had not expired.

The Just🐷ice Department did not immediate🍒ly respond to a request for comment.

Wynn’s lawyers in a statement reiterated their denial of the lobbying allegations. “This is a claim that should never have been filed, and the court agreed,” they said.