Your bank accounts are frozen. Before you've had any chance to answer the charges in court. We'd all like to think that can't happen in America. But it does. But no one contends Las Vegas golf course developer Billy Walters is any kind of drug kingpin.
Some sarcasm is intended, of course.
Mr. Smith and the prosecutors contend they can seize the property as though it had been built with ill-gotten felony proceeds. That's what this thing has been about from day one. I hope the courts will quickly agree that there is no need for the authorities to seize the Desert Pines Golf Course. Because it ain't goin' nowhere. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.