Las Vegas Sands fined over China frontman payments

Edit Taipei Times 08 Apr 2016
Global gaming conglomerate Las Vegas Sands Corp was hit on Thursday with a US$9 million fine under US anti-foreign bribery laws for poorly documented payments the company made involving China investments ... The company also said the SEC probe arose from claims made in a lawsuit against it by Steven Jacobs, who headed its Macau operations before being fired in 2010. The two sides are still fighting that legal battle in a Las Vegas court. ....

Court To Hear Arguments Against Judge Investigated By Adelson-Owned Paper

Edit TPM 06 Apr 2016
chief executive Steven Jacobs, acknowledged, however, that the schedule was effectively frozen pending a ruling by the state high court ... The Jacobs lawyer said the judge ended the interview when questions turned toward Adelson, Sands and the Jacobs case ... Gonzalez has clashed numerous times with Adelson lawyers in the Jacobs case ... from Jacobs' lawyers....

Nevada high court hears Las Vegas Sands judge-bias arguments

Edit The Oklahoman 06 Apr 2016
Todd Bice represents former Sands China chief executive Steven Jacobs ... District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez after more than five years handling the Sands-Jacobs case....

Nevada court hears casino mogul Adelson's defamation case

Edit Tampa Bay Online 05 Apr 2016
"It states that Mr. Adelson approved of prostitution ... Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands, denied the claims when they were made public as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in Nevada state court by former Sands China executive Steven Jacobs ... Adelson didn't attend oral arguments Monday in Las Vegas, where the state high court on Tuesday will take up another appeal stemming from the ongoing Adelson-Jacobs lawsuit ... ....

Ashley's play helped Kubasaki repeat

Edit Stars and Stripes 03 Mar 2016
It wasn’t a game victory or a tournament title that served as a watershed moment for the Kubasaki boys basketball team during its just-completed season ... He can play inside and outside ... “I wanted to show them we could do it again,” Ashley said, crediting his teammates, particularly fellow senior leaders Skylor Stevens and Jacob Green ... Division I. Matt Ashley, Jacob Green, Kubasaki; Justin Wilson, Kadena; Avi Schafer, St....

Casino magnate Adelson facing 49 hours of pretrial questions

Edit Austin American Statesman 19 Feb 2016
A lawyer for former Sands China chief executive Steven Jacobs said in court that he expects an attempt by Adelson and his lawyers to disrupt the sworn deposition in an effort to scuttle plans to begin the long-awaited civil trial June 27 ... 17, 2016, by Chief Clark County District Court Judge David Barker leaves Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez on the case filed in 2010 by former Sands China chief executive Steven Jacobs....

Ruling: Judge stays on Vegas case involving Adelson, Sands

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 18 Feb 2016
... Elizabeth Gonzalez on the case filed in 2010 by former Sands China chief executive Steven Jacobs....

Casino magnate Adelson facing long pretrial questioning

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 18 Feb 2016
A lawyer for former Sands China chief executive Steven Jacobs said in court that he expects an attempt by Adelson and his lawyers to disrupt the deposition, in an effort to scuttle plans to begin the long-awaited civil trial June 27. “We will ... ....

Former Adelson casino exec takes dismissal case to US court

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 09 Feb 2016
A lawsuit filed Jan. 29 in Las Vegas seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages on the question of whether Steven Jacobs was an employee of Las Vegas Sands Corp. or its subsidiary, Venetian Macau Ltd ... ....

Rose suffers a nip slip at DJs

Edit The Daily Telegraph Australia 04 Feb 2016
ALL eyes were on Today weatherman Steven Jacobs’ wife Rose at the David Jones red carpet — for all the wrong reasons ... ....

The Story Of Sheldon Adelson's Purchase Of A Las Vegas Paper Is Even Crazier Than ...

Edit Huffington Post 10 Jan 2016
That suit was brought by Steven Jacobs, a former senior executive at the Sands' most lucrative gambling franchise in Macau, China ... The wrongful termination suit, which is slated to go to trial in mid-2016, includes charges by Jacobs that Adelson and the company had directed him to continue working with a Macau lawyer and legislator despite Jacobs' concerns that payments to that individual might violate U.S....

Meet the Judge at the Center of Sheldon Adelson’s Strange Deal to Buy a Newspaper

Edit Time Magazine 07 Jan 2016
In 2010, Steven Jacobs, the former chief executive of Sands’ operation in Macau, sued the company over his firing and later added Adelson as a defendant. Jacobs claims he was terminated for refusing to do business with people who may have had ties to Chinese organized crime and that Adelson asked him to secretly investigate Macau government officials....

Editor of Sheldon Adelson-Owned Newspaper Apologizes for Controversial Article

Edit The Wrap 05 Jan 2016
The editor and publisher of a Sheldon Adelson-owned newspaper in Connecticut has apologized for an article he published that appeared to attack a judge on behalf of the billionaire ... The Dec ... Also Read ... Specifically, the story called out Gonzalez for her role in a wrongful termination suit involving former Sands China president Steven Jacobs and the Sands Chairman, Adelson ... Also Read ... ....
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