No, I didn’t say it. George Bush did. There is this and much more in Connie Bruck’s eye-opening New Yorker expose of Sheldon Adelson’s life as a right-wing political wheeler-dealer and gambling tycoon. The profile is highly unflattering though it does attempt to place some of Adelson’s philanthropy in a positive context. [...]
Read full post...THe more you read about the Olmert bribery investigation and get to know the cast of characters, the more it resembles a very bad opera or perhaps even burlesque. There’s the former Orthodox rabbi, Morris Talansky, become bag man for a prime minister. The former rabbi once recruited muscle to intimidate a [...]
Read full post...Haaretz reports today that Israeli police are widening their bribery investigation, questioning gaming magnate and Likud supporter Sheldon Adelson and others about solicitations that Ehud Olmert may have made on behalf of Morris Talansky and his Israeli business interests. They are attempting to establish a quid pro quo that would explain Talansky’s cash contributions [...]
Read full post...Sheldon Adelson: ‘Oy, those meshuganeh Democrats!’ (Alex Hofford/European Pressphoto)
The NY Times writes today that the new neocon group, Freedom’s Watch (FW) is being funded by right-wing Jewish donors. The original idea for the group was conceived at a Republican Jewish Coalition meeting and one of its key funders is Las Vegas gambling king, Sheldon [...]
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