Rudy Giuliani jets to campaign stops using casino kingpin's plane

November 18th 2007 ^ | David Saltonstall | NY Daily News

[calcowgirl]

Rudy Giuliani is jetting around the country wooing Bible-thumping conservatives, but his plane is often provided by a king of Sin City.

The Republican presidential hopeful anted up more than $122,000 last summer alone for jets traceable to casino kingpin Sheldon Adelson, whose Las Vegas Sands empire has made him the third-richest American, a Daily News review of campaign records shows.

Last quarter, The Sands' innocuously named Interface Operations LLC was the top provider of corporate jets to the frequently flying Giuliani ...

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In addition to the Las Vegas Sands, Giuliani's fleet of corporate connections includes more than a dozen big-moneyed interests, among them:

• Hedge fund owner Paul Singer, a top Giuliani fund-raiser whose Elliott Asset Management provided some $90,000 in air support to the former mayor from July 1 through Sept. 30 - on top of the $176,000 it provided the previous quarter.

• Zuffa LLC, a company whose creations include "Ultimate Fighting Championship," a particularly brutal hybrid of boxing and martial arts that critics have dubbed "human cockfighting."

• Two New York real estate developers - Donald Trump and Stephen Ross of Related, the company Giuliani picked to develop the lucrative Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle when he was mayor.

• Alticor Inc., the parent company of Michigan-based Amway, a major multilevel marketing corporation with deep ties to the GOP whose vice president for public policy, Richard Holwill, is a top Giuliani fund-raiser.

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Adelson - a former City College kid - made his real money when the Chinese government allowed him to build a casino on the island of Macao in 2004. That launched him to the No. 3 slot on Forbes' list of America's richest men, with a fortune estimated at $28 billion.

[calcowgirl]

Interesting that Giuliani's partners describe themselves as litigation security experts (see PDF file here--emphasis in original.) Then it laughably morphed into Rudy being the only guy to save us from the WOT. They have been good at the "brand building" part--creating legacies for the Bernie and Rudi show. Maybe their reference to "specialized services involving fund procurement" is just an extension of Rudy's family's knuckle-breaking services. ;-)

[fabian]

I think the donations from the ultimate fighting company is unfortunate as that is furthering the brutality culture. Sort of like watching two school yard kids beating themselves up, the whole schoolyard would run over to watch it until the teachers could break it up.

[AuntB]

• Alticor Inc., the parent company of Michigan-based Amway, a major multilevel marketing corporation with deep ties to the GOP whose vice president for public policy, Richard Holwill, is a top Giuliani fund-raiser.

Maybe Rudy is using some amway products to accomplish his laundering of his record.

[SierraWasp]

Well at least, (gag), it’s biodegradable!!! (snort!)(more GANG-GREEN puss!!!)