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The Adelson Furor in Israel

Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson has extensive business interests in Israel. A recent profile on Israeli TV apparently upset the Sands Chief and he persuaded the network to apologize. But that led to a raft of resignations from journalists and news executives who thought they had been thrown under the bus. So what caused all the problems? A report on Adelson's activities in Las Vegas when he first took over Las Vegas Sands in the late 1980s.

 

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Jeff Burbank, author, License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age

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