Sheldon Adelson, the gambling magnate and billionaire backer of Republican presidential candidates, made a combative appearance in a Las Vegas court on Tuesday in a case rooted in allegations his casino empire was involved in influence-peddling with a Chinese official and had ties to organized crime. Adelson, who used his $25bn fortune to back Newt 

Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire founder and chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp., said the man he fired almost five years ago as the head of his casinos in Macau was a “very strange man” who almost detroyed the company. Adelson, 81, testified Tuesday for the first time in open court about his conflict with Steven 

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