Trump aids Adelson Japan casino quest: report

Non-profit investigative reporting group ProPublica contends that the Trump administration is trying to help major donor Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands win a Japan casino license. The article by Justin Elliott says Adelson has “unprecedented” access and influence in the Trump White House, according to an old Washington hand. But that may not help in Japan.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.