Adelsons Contribute $500K To Russia Probe Legal Defense For Trump Aides

Chief Executive of Las Vegas Sands Corporation Sheldon Adelson sits with his wife Miriam waits for the presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee D... Chief Executive of Las Vegas Sands Corporation Sheldon Adelson sits with his wife Miriam waits for the presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) MORE LESS
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GOP megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson together contributed a half a million dollars last year to a legal defense fund set up for Trump aides swept up in the Russia investigation, tax filings released Thursday evening revealed.

The contributions — 250,000 from each spouse — were the only ones made to the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust in the last quarter of 2018. Previous tax filings show that Trump allies including Geoffrey Palmer, Phillip Ruffin and Anthony Lomangino contributed tens of thousands of dollars earlier this year.

The most recent filing shows various law firms receiving funds. Among them are Jones Day, which received more than $10,000 in the fourth quarter of 2018; Mintz Levin, which received some $54,000; King & Spalding which received $40,000, and Berliner Corcoran & Rowe, which received nearly $33,000 in the fourth quarter of 2018.

The fund was set up last year to help pay the Russia probe-related legal bills for those who worked for President Trump’s campaign, transition and White House. It will not be used to pay for lawyers for Trump’s immediate family, according to a filing with the Office of Government Ethics, nor for lawyers for the campaign itself.

See the fund’s latest tax filing below:

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  1. But is this good for the Jews?

  2. More evidence for why we need a higher marginal tax rate on billionaires.

  3. That’s the equivalent of me tossing a penny to a pauper. What cheapskates!

  4. Adelson need to protect his crooked vassal, Trump, who does his bidding. Expect reports to surface that Adelson also picks up the legal bills for his other crooked vassel, Bibi Netanyahu, who is facing criminal corruption charges.

  5. “Irrational Greedy Billionaires”. A new reality show airing on ABC sometime in the near future. In the first epsisode watch as the Adelsons plot to excoriate Howard Schultz using their personal newspaper, the Las Vegas Review Journal, to attack Howard. Howard writes a book. It is reviewed by “radical leftist” “Rolling Stone” as being so dull that it makes the Romney life story look like “Dante’s Inferno”. Later, Howard and the Adelsons shop for “super yachts”.

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