No one has ever described Sheldon Adelson as a man happy with the world. Happy billionaires do not spend tens of millions of dollars trying to get Newt Gingrich elected president. But it took a hearing in a Las Vegas courtroom to lay bare an unexpected target for the casino magnet’s ire along with Adelson’s 

Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., spent more than six hours on the witness stand Tuesday and repeatedly expressed his disdain for the former executive who brought him there. Adelson said he never wanted to hire Steven Jacobs, the former president of Sands Macau who later filed a wrongful 

Sheldon Adelson will be confronted in court for the first time with allegations of wrongdoing by a man he fired five years ago as the head of his Macau casinos. Adelson, the 81-year-old billionaire founder and chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is among the casino operator’s top executives listed as witnesses for a hearing 

LAS VEGAS (CN) – A former Sands China CEO’s lawsuit against Sheldon Adelson got under way Monday, with Adelson’s attorneys objecting so often a state judge threatened to hold them in contempt. Steven C. Jacobs sued Adelson and his Sands companies 4½ years ago, claiming the casino billionaire wrongfully fired him for objecting to Adelson’s 

A Las Vegas judge began hearing testimony Monday to help her determine whether she has jurisdiction over Sands China Ltd. in a breach of contract case filed by Steven Jacobs, the former president of Sands Macau. Jacobs sued Sands China and Las Vegas Sands Corp. in 2010, shortly after he was fired. He later added