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By A. James Memmott | June 29, 2008 at 8:45am | 0
There was a time when Sheldon G. Adelson seemed famous for his anonymity.He built casinos, backed politicians and contributed millions of dollars to a variety of causes but stayed behind the scenes.
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Now, thanks to a 10,000-word profile in the current New Yorker magazine, Adelson, 74, may get the recognition he deserves, though it may not be the recognition he wants.
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Bruck acknowledges in a disclosure within the profile that her husband, former U.S. Rep. Mel Levine, a Democrat, is a “Middle East foreign-policy adviser to the Obama campaign.”
She does not acknowledge that Levine, a lawyer, is also a former board member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC.
