Another Hillary Election Committee “news” plant.
MAYBE the mob didn’t “hit” him in the 80’s because he is on their payroll.
Does the use of these aircarft violate FEC campaign regulations?..... If not what is the story?.... The campaigns use the aircrafts, pay for the services at the going commercial rates and campaigning goes on... I guess some cammpaigns don’t have people willing to let them use their company aircraft but that’s their fault.
45 Days and the selection process begins......
Forbes 400 bump!..... :-)
Is a “kingpin” a good thing or a bad thing?
If there is something to smear here, let us smear any government official who denies to common citizens the permission he gives to only people who some board or commission approves of. We are long past the public morality of regulated gambling. I just found out that the Colonies financed themselves in part from their very beginning with lotteries.
If the State can run a lottery, so should I be able to, if I am willing to run it in an open and honest way. If people object to gambling, let them be free to convince fellow citizens of that moral issue by peaceful means, and not by getting government to act as their armed agents. This is an ongoing issue of liberty even as my own town attempts to impose a public ban on smoking.
Now Ruddy is in the crowd of lovers of big government. The only candidate who isn’t is Ron Paul. But where I part company with Paul is the same reason for other libertarians: they know very well what they are against, they just don’t know what they are for. It is also clear they do not understand the threat of Islamists.
If I hear another libertarian make the foolish and specious claim that all the jihadists want is to trade peacefully and be respected, I may be tempted to call out the fool with very strong language, for the ONLY way to deal with a jihadist is how much of a pig skin you are going to bury his body part in.
FWIW, that casino in Macau is a complete disaster. I suspect Adelson won’t be the third richest American when the list comes out in 2008.
You don't say, Rooty.
Is that why Rooty's getting campaign support from Kazakhstan (a former Soviet state in Central Asia)?
Kazakhstan is in the Strategic Energy Ellipse and is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with China and Russia; an oil and gas focal point of influence between the West and the East...........Kazahstan also has vast uranium stores and is banking on being a nuclear-transit corridor.
Mmmmmm.....if Rooty got his greasy hands on federal power, he could really help 'em with that plan, eh (/sarc)?
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KAZAKH KASH By CARL CAMPANILE NY Post September 22, 2007
Rudy Giuliani is reaching out to Borat's glorious nation of Kazakhstan to make benefit his presidential campaign. The campaign will throw a fund-raiser in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. "Rudy will be holding a live teleconference with supporters," fund-raising chief Roy Bailey said in a letter to supporters. Giuliani's law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, has two offices in Kazakhstan. SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/seven/09222007/news/nationalnews/kazakh_kash.htm
Bracewell & Giuliani's Almaty, Kazakhstan (in Central Asia) January closings totalled $1.625 Billion---Giuliani has two offices there).
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Meet Global Rudy. Here's The Rudester's global connections (that we know of): (1) Giuliani Capital Advisors, LLC (AKA Giuliani Partners LLC), (2) Giuliani Group, (3) Giuliani-Kerik (re-named Giuliani Security and Safety, after the departure of the tainted ex-Police Commissioner), (4) Giuliani-Van Essen, (5) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP law firm (based in Texas with global interests), (6) Bracewell & Giuliani has two offices in Kazakhstan (a former Soviet state in Central Asia), and, (7) Giuliani Security & Safety, Asia
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The Sands’ innocuously named Interface Operations LLC was the top provider of corporate jets to the frequently flying Giuliani ...
Interface Operations
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How about N’in Yur Wallet Production
Amway isn’t the only MLM with ties.
Looks like someone is about ready to shine a flashlight into that closet!!!
Oh Rudy, do you believe in MAGIC???
Sheldon Gary Adelson (born August 1, 1933)[1] is an American billionaire businessman. He is a property developer and public company CEO based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates the Venetian Casino Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. Adelson vastly increased his net worth upon the initial public offering of Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) in December 2004 by selling just 10% of the shares. With an estimated wealth of US$26.5 bn, he is the United States’ third richest person as of 2007[2]. Adelson studied at City College of New York, but did not complete his studies.
Adelson was born in to a Jewish family in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. His family emigrated to the United States from the Russian empire (mother’s family from Ukraine, father from Lithuania).[3]. He worked at a young age selling newspapers on local street corners and owned his first business by the time he was twelve. In the years that followed, he worked as a mortgage broker, investment adviser and financial consultant. To this point in his career, Adelson has created and developed to maturity more than 50 different companies, including COMDEX, a tradeshow he developed with his partners for the computer industry and with the goal to get more visitors to his hotels.
In 1988, Adelson and his partners purchased the Sands Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, the former hangout of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, in order to bring Las Vegas to a new phase of business centricity through the exhibition industry. The following year, Mr Adelson and his partners constructed the Sands Expo and Convention Center, the only privately owned and operated convention center in the United States.
In 1995, Adelson and his partners sold the Interface Group Show Division, including the COMDEX shows, to Softbank Corporation of Japan for a cash price in excess of $860 million. In 1991, while honeymooning in Venice with his wife Miriam (a physician), Adelson gained the inspiration for a mega-resort hotel, and he proceeded with the implosion of the venerable Sands and the construction of the $1.5-billion The Venetian, a Venice-themed resort hotel and casino. The luxurious, all-suite Venetian revolutionized the Las Vegas hotel industry, and has been honored with architectural and other awards naming it as one the finest hotels in the world. In 2003, The Venetian added the 1,013-suite Venezia tower - giving The Venetian 4,049 suites, 18 leading-chef restaurants, a shopping mall with canals, gondolas and singing gondoliers.
Adelson spearheaded a major project to bring the Sands name to the Macao SAR, China, the Chinese gambling city that had been a Portuguese colony until December 20, 1999. The one million-square-foot Sands Macau became the People’s Republic of China’s first Las Vegas-style casino when it opened in May 2004.
In addition, on May 26, 2006, Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands was awarded a hotly contested license to construct a casino resort in Singapore’s Marina Bay. The new casino is expected to open in 2009 at a rumored cost of $3.16 billion.
On August 28, 2007, Adelson opened the $2.4 billion Venetian Macao Resort Hotel on Cotai and announced a vision to launch a massive, concentrated resort area he calls the Cotai Strip, after its Las Vegas counterpart. Adelson formally stated his plans to open more hotels under brands such as Four Seasons, Sheraton and St. Regis. Ergo, his Las Vegas Sands (which rand the Sands Macao on the Macau peninsula), plans to invest $12 billion and build 20,000 hotel rooms on the Cotai Strip by 2010.[
In 2007, Adelson made an unsuccessful bid to buy controlling interest in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. When this failed, he proceded with parallel plans to publish a free daily newspaper to compete with Israeli, a newspaper he had co-founded in 2006 but had left. [6] The first edition of the new newspaper, Israel HaYom, was published on July 30, 2007.
Since 1991, Adelson is married to Miriam Ochshorn, a physician.
Philanthropic gifts
Mr. Adelson currently has funded over $25,000,000 to the M.I.S Hebrew Academy in Las Vegas to build a high school. Currently, the high school has a 9th and 10th grade and will add more grades annually.
In 2007 Mr. Adelson founded Freedom’s Watch, an advocacy group in part run and supported by former officials of the Bush administration.
In 2006 Mr. Adelson contributed $25,000,000 to the organization Birthright Israel, which finances Jewish youth trips to Israel. The gift is anticipated to be given annually for the foreseeable future [1].
In 2007, Mr. Adelson pledged another $25,000,000 to the Birthright Israel program, allowing for approximately 20,000 people to take part in the program [2].
Mr. Adelson also has funded the Boston based Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation. This foundation initiated the Adelson Program in Neural Repair and Rehabilitation (APNRR) with $7.5 million donated to collaborating researchers at 10 universities. [7] Mr. Adelson has publicly pledged billions to medical research and has encouraged researchers to contact him with ideas that need to be funded. Oddly, however, the Adelson Medical Research Foundation does not have a cognizable website.[8]
Wow, I figured the Amway guys would be in the Romney camp...
Did he do anything illegal?
spoken like a true cakeboy
Maybe Rudy is using some amway products to accomplish his laundering of his record.