{"id":8471,"date":"2012-02-09T11:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:27:59","slug":"more-bad-news-for-adelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/more-bad-news-for-adelson\/","title":{"rendered":"More bad news for Adelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s hard to say which is funnier or more hubristic: Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>‘s ongoing conceit that he could buy the presidency of the United States<\/strong> or his arrant naivet\u00e9, thinking that such ham-fisted involvement in the electoral process wouldn’t bring him under a media microscope<\/a>. Trotting wife Dr. Miriam Adelson<\/strong> out for a lovey-dovey profile in Fortune<\/em> isn’t going to change that. Reuters<\/strong> reminds its readers today that both the SEC<\/strong> and the Department of Justice<\/strong> are rooting around in Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>‘ business practices in Macao<\/strong>, a subject of which we’ll hear more as Adelson keeps dumping huge bags of money into the machinery of American politics. At the rate things are going, presidential candidates will soon be fielding queries about Sands China<\/strong>‘s erstwhile Triad involvement<\/a>, and if Adelson and COO Michael Leven<\/strong> haven’t violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act<\/strong> when retaining the services<\/a> of Macanese public servant Leonel Alves<\/strong>, they’ve skated right up to the edge of what’s permissible.<\/p>\n

And the American news media doesn’t paint with a fine brush. If Adelson gets tarred, so does the casino industry in general, collateral damage that he’s evidently willing to risk. Then again, if you had the feds breathing down your neck, you’d<\/em> want a puppet in the White House<\/strong>, wouldn’t you? Might be a good investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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