Sheldon Adelson must be wishing he could quit Michael Schroeder. He’s the loud tin can tied to the back of the Adelson limousine whose incessant rattling continues to draw attention to the casino tycoon’s foray into U.S. new media. Schroeder, the micro-tenured “manager” of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 
stalking horse for the Adelson family, who screwed up and was quickly sent scuttling back to Connecticut, has now taken center stage in the Steven Jacobs lawsuit. The latter’s lawyers want to know whether Las Vegas Sands Vice President of Finance & Strategy Patrick Dumont (who orchestrated Adelson’s R-J buyout) discussed the Jacobs case with Schroeder. The latter is reviled throughout the journalistic community for having published a hit piece on Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez that “contained plagiarized passages and made-up quotes, and was published under the pseudonym Edward Clarkin.”
Dumont tried to conceal himself behind journalistic shield laws when questioned whether he’d done any string-pulling in the “Clarkin” piece. Jacobs’ attorney, Todd Bice, said the questioning of Dumont was germane because Continue reading
