Adelson's Sands Bribed Foreign Officials

Monday, March 04, 2013

The Las Vegas Sands Corporation, an international gambling empire controlled by the billionaire Sheldon G. Adelson, has informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that it likely violated a federal law against bribing foreign officials. The disclosure comes amid an investigation by the SEC, FBI and Department of Justice into the company's business activities in China. Adelson became the biggest single donor in political history during the 2012 presidential election, giving more than $60 million to eight Republican candidates, including Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, through super PACs.

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Not to worry, GOPiggies, $helson Adel$on ain't done yet:

Since the election, Adelson said that [he] plans to double his contributions to Republican candidates and with an estimated net worth of almost $25 billion, he could theoretically spend $500,000 on every single Republican House and Senate nominee for the next 186 years.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2013-03-04 08:05 AM | Reply | Flag:

He is small peanuts compared to George Soros.

#2 | Posted by KBM at 2013-03-04 10:38 AM | Reply | Flag:

That didn't take long.

#3 | Posted by 726 at 2013-03-04 12:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

If he had owned just a few more Rethug congressman, he would not have had to admit to paying off Chinese crime gangs.

Of course, the rwing activist SC has made it legal for him to do the same thing here.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2013-03-04 12:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

Here come the tired old snide remarks about rich people... correction.. rich conservatives. The rich liberals are just fine it seems.

#5 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03-04 04:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

Here come the tired old snide remarks about rich people... correction.. rich conservatives. The rich liberals are just fine it seems.

#5 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03-04

Are you rich?

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2013-03-04 04:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

Are you rich?

#6 | Posted by Zed

He's working so hard for the rich righties that surely they'll reward him. Like they keep promising him they'll do, if he just sends a little more money to the GOP.

#8 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-03-04 04:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Success in Macau has made Mr. Adelson, 78, one of the richest people in the world."

imagine what owning a casino is worth in SE Asia.

them folks love to gamble......

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2013-03-04 04:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Are you rich?"

are you gay?

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2013-03-04 04:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

are you gay?

#10 | Posted by eberly at

I am very happy.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2013-03-04 05:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

are you gay?

#10 | Posted by eberly at

I am very happy.

#11 | Posted by Zed

lol. Game over. Eberly lost.

#12 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-04 05:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

what? come on.

I only expressed the notion that you don't have to be gay to advocate for gays, or blacks, or women, etc...

one doesn't have to be rich.........

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2013-03-04 05:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Liberals are totally focused on "the rich" even when they are "rich".

People like Eric Schmidt, John Kerry, George Soros, Warren Buffet all uber rich are just fine, but anyone that has a conservative view and happens to be rich you can't stand.

John Kerry is richer than Mitt, but that was just fine wasn't it?

#14 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03-04 05:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

Dear SEC;

It now appears that my well paid minions, the biggest job creator in history and the smartest man in the country have both failed to win the White House for me, despite constant urging from Mr. Rove to wait for the final, final results from Ohio.

As such, I see no way to avoid legal repercussions from my usual policy of buying whichever politician or government official I want, even if such things happened in deepest darkest Macao. That being the case, I wish to acknowledge that there may possibly be the tiniest possibility that at some point, when no one was watching, some foreign official mistook my perfectly innocent of giving him a suitcase full of 100 dollar bills as an inducement to cause him to do me a very minor, if possibly illegal, favor.

I'm really really sorry this happened and I promise not to do it again. Ever.

Your friend,
Shel

PS Should you need to visit any of my casinos for any reason please rest assured we will do everything possible to make your visit enjoyable. And profitable.

PSS: This is in no way to be construed as offering you a bribe. I do this for everyone who has the ability to put me in jail.

#15 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-03-04 05:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

John Kerry is richer than Mitt

#14 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03-04 05:09 PM

You never knew that. Mitt consciously concealed his finances, remember?

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2013-03-04 05:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

You're bound and determined to get us back in touch with why Mitt was such a bad, bad candidate.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2013-03-04 05:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

Mitt consciously concealed his finances, remember?

He refused to release all the details, but released all that was required by law. And so?

Kerry docked his boat in another State, Rhode Island to avoid $500,000 in taxes and had a lower tax rate that Romney.

We could go back and forth all day but you prove my point that it's only rich conservatives that are hung out to dry for being rich.

#19 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03-04 06:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

#15

Dear Bank Of England,

I crushed you. You were wrong I was right. I leveraged myself 100 to 1 and almost bankrupt your country. The left says I'm great because I support BHO in all ways possible.

With Love,

George Soros.

Funny how much bad behavior the left will put up w from their side, vs what they demand from the right.

NG3 do you support george soros and his hedge fund activities???

#20 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-03-04 06:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

Liberals are totally focused on "the rich" even when they are "rich".

#14 | Posted by sames1

Liberals are totally focused on THE PROBLEM, which in most circumstances is the rich - or more specifically, the rich refusing to support the country that enabled their own success, the rich installing and bribing officials to do their bidding at the expense of everyone else, and the rich writing legislation to favor their business and smother the smaller competitors.

Rich libs recognize this is a problem so they use their wealth to try and level the playing field. Rich repubs LOVE this problem and use their wealth to try and ensure it's continued success - by tricking all the non-rich republican suckers into voting for people who don't care about them.

This dude epitomizes the republican donor. A criminal billionaire trying to install puppet legislators so he can get away with his crimes and suck even more wealth from society without facing any consequences.
Anyone defending him who isn't a billionaire is just a sucker who proves that his methods work.

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2013-03-04 06:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

Rich liberals don't spend money trying to fool the rest of the population into thinking that our only choice for deficit reduction is cutting SS, Medicare and Medicaid. Some conservative billionaires do. Rich liberals don't want to be rich living in a poor country.

#22 | Posted by danni at 2013-03-04 06:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

Every righty who posted something about a rich liberal who admitted to Corporate corruption gets a free ride on Romney's car elevator.

What? no rides today?

Cause none of the names you dirtbags threw out is admitting to corruption.

It's Shelden!

Not George.

Not Warren.

All you pouty little deflection queens are pathetic

#23 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2013-03-04 10:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

#22 Hack lefties stick their heads in the sand and pretend entitlement reforms are no necessary. It's a fact.

How do they do it? Easy they haven't even passed a budget for 4 years, so how would they worry about the next four?

WHAT HAPPENED TO PAYGO, one of your favorite terms? Where is the budget??

#24 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-03-05 07:47 AM | Reply | Flag:

WHAT HAPPENED TO PAYGO,

The PAYGO statute expired at the end of 2002. After this, Congress enacted President George W. Bush's proposed 2003 tax cuts (enacted as the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003), and the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act.[5] The White House acknowledged that the new Medicare prescription drug benefit plan would not meet the PAYGO requirements.

The Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, Title I of Pub.L. 111–139, H.J.Res. 45, enacted on February 12, 2010, is a public law passed during the 111th United States Congress and signed by President Barack Obama. The act reinstated pay-as-you-go budgeting rules used in Congress from 1990 until 2002, ensuring that most new spending is offset by spending cuts or added revenue elsewhere (with several major policy exemptions).

en.wikipedia.org

#25 | Posted by 726 at 2013-03-05 07:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

"WHAT HAPPENED TO PAYGO, one of your favorite terms? Where is the budget??"

The Bushies needed to rid us of that inconvenient law so that they could start wars and pay for them with the credit card so that now they can constantly whine about spending. Read a little and you'll realize that our debt today was planned, it is part of their "starve the beast" tactic to destroy the New Deal and the Great Society programs.

#26 | Posted by danni at 2013-03-05 08:01 AM | Reply | Flag:

He refused to release all the details, but released all that was required by law. And so?

#19 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03

And so if he didn't want to be suspected of any number of financial shenanigans, he should have come entirely clean.

Mitt ran on the notion that he made his riches the hard way. Millions of us doubted that from the start. Mitt thought that doubt was a safer place for him to be in than confirmation.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2013-03-05 09:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

You were all about paygo in 2008. So you are effectively saying, that you were full of bs. I was pounding the table saying how great things would be when Nancy Pelosi instituted paygo, YOU WERE.

Funny how libs can't remember what they said, then reinvent different scenarios to suit their talking points.

An honest person would say that is lying

#28 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-03-05 10:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

Ever been to Macau - where Addleson makes his millions?

....gambling and rampant prostitution - with bribery the way business is done. Addleson is up to his neck in it and belongs behind bars...

...but the Palecons of the web will defend his indefensible actions - it's what they are paid - I mean...it is what they volunteer to do....

#29 | Posted by 1EyedMan at 2013-03-05 11:17 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Mitt consciously concealed his finances, remember?"
He refused to release all the details, but released all that was required by law. And so?
Kerry docked his boat in another State, Rhode Island to avoid $500,000 in taxes and had a lower tax rate that Romney.
We could go back and forth all day but you prove my point that it's only rich conservatives that are hung out to dry for being rich.
#19 | Posted by sames1 at 2013-03-04 06:11 PM

Did Kerry park his craft according to law? Then by the logic of your prior sentence he is 100% justified and you should apologize for your double-standard.

How about Halliburton doing business with Iran, exporting their oil throughout the entire illegal Iraq invasion, the following illegal Afghanistan invasion, and up to this very warmongering day. Cheney was not only the alleged "Vice President" to the United States (his very own VP exploratory committee amazingly chose him, btw), but also the facilitation of all military outsource contracting throughout his "reign". But let the man himself tell you for certain how the "law" defines his position: "As Vice President I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of, in any way, shape or form, of contracts."

Administrations prior, while positioned as Secretary of Defense in 1992 Dick Cheney authorized payment to KBR of 9 million to "study" outsourcing military services. Amazingly, once he became CEO of Halliburton their main subsidiary KBR outsourced the majority of non-combat duty, precisely like the study he paid them to performed outlined. Halliburton raked in billions. These coincidences abound with legal criminality.

Your turn. Point out "Liberal" corruption on par with that.

#30 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2013-03-05 04:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ahh so WHY redlight did Obama gave Halliburton the LARGEST NO BID gov contract ever awarded?

You see when confronted with facts, the left pretends not to hear!

#31 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-03-05 05:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

"WHAT HAPPENED TO PAYGO, one of your favorite terms? Where is the budget??"

#26 | Posted by danni

Danni we are talking Democratic paygo you talked up in 2008. What happened to it. You predicted it, you wielded it like a club, and repeatedly stated how the D's were going to use it to shape government.

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT? WHERE IS THE BUDGET.

If you can't pass a budget, wouldn't you agree that's a FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP?

#32 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-03-05 05:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

WHAT HAPPENED TO IT? WHERE IS THE BUDGET.

If you can't pass a budget, wouldn't you agree that's a FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP?

#32 | Posted by DavetheWave

Danni (and Tony Roma) blame the GOP for the Dem-controlled Senate's inability to pass a budget.

I am dead serious.

#33 | Posted by JeffJ at 2013-03-05 06:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

#29 but the Palecons of the web will defend his indefensible actions - it's what they are paid - I mean...it is what they volunteer to do....

Posted by 1EyedMan a

Me thinks you have a slight spelling error. It's not Paleocons that are obsessed with power, greed and war. It's the Neocons like Adelson. They represent the real threat to average Americans and 98% of the USA.

#34 | Posted by Robson at 2013-03-05 08:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

So can we expect the representatives of the Party of Godliness, especially Newtsy and Etchy, to repay the money they and their PACs got from Sheldon? Or to put it the other way, will they pay it back before kosher pigs start flying?

#35 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-03-05 08:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

Mitt accepted money from a slimy casino?

Does the LDS church not have rules against accepting gambling money?

#36 | Posted by Tor at 2013-03-05 11:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Where are you NG3 on no budget?

Don't you agree it's a FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP?

#37 | Posted by DavetheWave at 2013-03-06 08:01 AM | Reply | Flag: