Jewish Global News: Adelson Prostitution Link Faces Lawsuit Silencing

Vatic Note:   Before I get into this,  let me first say, he has not been tried,  or prosecuted or found guilty of such accusations.  In fact, if he had not sued the Jewish dem  group, I would not have known about this.  But this is very very interesting.  IF TRUE,  then the corruption within the system is even more  perverse than what we do know about in corruption in banking, drug running,  and the markets, child slave and sex trade criminal activities.  What kind of world are we allowing to emerge when this is becoming the norm?  Then how could Romney even consider accepting this mans money?  But then we do not know the underbelly of most of these people.  Even Obama.  We have no information on his background as a young adult.  So, keeping that in mind, read this as simply another peg in the bigger puzzle.  

Jewish Global News: Adelson Prostitution Link Faces Lawsuit Silencing
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Sheldon Adelson sues Jewish Democratic group

By Ron Kampeas  for Global News for the Jewish People

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sheldon Adelson is suing the National Jewish Democratic Council for defamation.

Lawyers for Adelson, the casino magnate and major Republican donor, had sent a warning letter to the NJDC and to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week after each body publicly stated that Adelson had approved of prostitution at his properties in Macau, China. That allegation appeared in a lawsuit file by a former Adelson employee, Steven Jacobs, who had managed Adelson’s Macau business until being fired in 2010.

The DCCC apologized last week for referencing the allegation in press releases sent June 22 and July 2 that called on Republicans not to take Adelson’s money. But NJDC has refused to excise the allegation from an online petition calling on Republicans to stop accepting money from Adelson.

Adelson filed the defamation lawsuit this week; the NJDC shared news of the lawsuit in a statement sent to reporters.

“Referencing mainstream press accounts examining the conduct of a public figure and his business ventures — as we did — is wholly appropriate,” NJDC said in a statement. “Indeed, it is both an American and a Jewish obligation to ask hard questions of powerful individuals like Mr. Adelson, just as it is incumbent upon us to praise his wonderful philanthropic endeavors.”

The statement called Adelson’s lawsuit a “strategic lawsuit against public participation,” or SLAPP, a term used for legal maneuvers aimed not at obtaining justice but silence.

“We know that we were well within our rights, and we will defend ourselves against this SLAPP suit as far and as long as necessary,” NJDC said. “We simply will not be bullied, and we will not be silenced.”

Adelson’s publicist, Ron Reese, had no immediate comment.

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