{"id":17497,"date":"2016-01-05T10:50:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17497"},"modified":"2020-01-07T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:50:11","slug":"another-day-in-adelsonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/another-day-in-adelsonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Another day in Adelsonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a weeks of ham-handed “managing” of the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>, controversial executive Michael Schroeder<\/strong> got the heave-ho, the apparent \"Adelson<\/a>price of having brought unwanted attention to Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>‘s ownership. He was also an ethical cancer on the R-J<\/em><\/a>, having been exposed as the author of a hit piece on Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez<\/strong>, in a story that “included made-up quotes and plagiarized passages.” Schroeder didn’t exactly endear himself to staffers by telling them “focus on your jobs … and don’t worry about who [the owners]\u00a0are.” What a snot. Such clumsy obfuscation caused the spotlight to shine all the more brightly on Adelson.<\/p>\n

I’m also going to go out on a limb and predict that Sheldon will be revealed as the mogul planning a 100,000-seat arena, as reported\u00a0in the Las Vegas Sun<\/em>. Other than Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>, which would draw howls of outrage from creditors if attempted such a high-cost project now, the only companies which satisfy the criteria of having off-Strip space \"Sheldon_Adelson<\/a>to spare are Wynn Resorts<\/strong> and Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>. Now Steve Wynn<\/strong>‘s talked about ripping up his golf course before and, at $500 a round, the links surely don’t pay their own way. However, Wynn is averse to debt, and still has both Wynn Palace<\/strong> and Wynn Everett<\/strong> to finish (hell, Wynn Everett isn’t even started<\/em>). Adelson is rolling in dough from Macao<\/strong>, even in these attenuated times, has spare acreage and the hubris to build an arena so big very few events could fill it.<\/p>\n

Besides, anyone remember when Sheldon was planning to build a new Sands Expo Center<\/strong>, add a third hotel tower and call the whole shebang MEGACENTRE<\/strong> (insert booming bass echo here)? I can think of one very good, overriding reason he would build an arena this massive: to host a Republican National Convention<\/strong> or two. Adelson thinks big and being able to lord it over the biggest event on the national political stage is, I believe, motive enough.<\/p>\n

* Considering how thin-skinned he is, Donald Trump<\/strong> should be grateful for the cushy media coverage he’s received. Where are the investigations of his business relationships with mobsters “Fat” Tony Salerno<\/strong>, Paul “Big Paul” Castellano<\/strong> and Nicky Scarfo<\/strong>, or with convicted felon\u00a0Joseph Weichselbaum<\/strong>? For that matter, where was the New Jersey Casino Control Commission<\/strong>, which has consistently turned a blind eye to Trump’s seamier dealings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a weeks of ham-handed “managing” of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, controversial executive Michael Schroeder got the heave-ho, the apparent price of having brought unwanted attention to Sheldon Adelson‘s ownership. He was also an ethical cancer on the R-J, having … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,7,62,33,25,12,32,87,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17497"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25774,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17497\/revisions\/25774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}