Sands Macao: The house that built Sheldon Adelson

Ten years ago, Las Vegas Sands founder and nine-figure political donor Sheldon Adelson was a Strip B-lister who’d stumbled into the casino business, scrambling to pay the interest on his junk bonds. Then, in May 2004, Adelson opened Sands Macao, Asia’s first American style casino, and he got richer faster than anyone ever. Sands Macao is the house that built Sheldon Adelson.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes 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.