News about Sheldon Adelson

Mega-donors are pouring funds in to the 2024 elections, with railroad magnate Timothy Mellon, Sheldon Adelson's widow Miriam and other top donors plowing money into pro-Trump PACs. Campaign spending by the top 50 givers has topped $1 billion, with Republicans running up the advantage. Elon Musk, who plowed $75 million into the pro-Trump America PAC, didn't even make the top five.

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that the top civilian honor was better than the top military honor because those recipients are in 'very bad shape' or deceased. He made the comments at an antisemitism event at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort, where he lauded Miriam Adelson, the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who long bankrolled Republican political campaigns.

On February 28, 2023, the Treasury Department reported that it earned $7 billion in 'estate and gift' taxes. With that kind of money, the contributor would have been one of the world's richest individuals. According to experts, the money could have originated from a death, a gift to a relative, a non-American citizen's divorce, or a non-American billionaire paying taxes to the United States. However, there is no way to determine who really had to pay $7 billion recently, since privacy legislation has barred government officials from discussing particulars of any tax returns.

Assange, 51, has been in a London jail since his asylum was suspended in 2019. Since a 2010 sexual harassment probe that has since been suspended, the US has been trying to extradite Assange. The lawyers, as well as two journalists who joined the litigation, are Americans and allege that the CIA broke their US constitutional rights for confidential discussions with Assange, who is Australian. According to them, the CIA operated with a security company contracted by the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where Assange was stationed at the time, to spy on the WikiLeaks founder, his lawyers, journalists, and others he met with.