ラスベガス・サンズ社 会長兼CEO
シェルドン・アデルソン
アメリカ・マサチューセッツ州生まれ。ニューヨーク市立大学中退。投資アドバイザー、ファイナンシャルコンサルタント等を経て、コンピュータのトレードショー運営会社コムデックスを含む50以上の企業の設立に関わり、現在にいたる。
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have given $75 million to a new political group that ran ads in battleground states during September that were critical of former Vice President and Democrat nominee Joe Biden.
The donation of Adelson, 87, and his wife, 75, to Preserve America PAC accounted for 90% of the group's fundraising in September, Politico reported Thursday, quoting a "person familiar with the group's finances."
Preserve America raised $83.76 million following its creation Aug. 31 and the end of September, also receiving $5 million from Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, 91; $2 million from investment banker Warren Stephens, 63; and $1 million from ABC Supply co-founder Diane Hendricks.
According to Politico, in its upcoming Federal Election Commission filings, Preserve America – which is run by Chris LaCivita, the strategist behind the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth campaign that questioned then-Democratic nominee for president John Kerry's Vietnam War record, will report spending $77 million, with $76 million of it on commercials deriding Biden.
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Business career
COMDEX
In the late 1970s, Adelson and his partners developed the COMDEX trade shows for the computer industry, beginning in 1979. It was the premier computer trade show through much of the 1980s and 1990s.[9]
In 1995, Adelson and his partners sold the Interface Group Show Division, including the COMDEX shows, to SoftBank Corporation of Japan for $862 million; Adelson's share was over $500 million.[9]
