Alan Dershowitz's Deep Ties To Trump's Biggest Donors

[DonViejo]

Eli Clifton

Alan Dershowitz’s Deep Ties To Trump’s Biggest Donors

September 12, 2018 2:03 a.m.

Over the course of the Trump administration, former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz has emerged as one of the president’s most vocal defenders on cable news networks, op-ed pages, and in his bluntly titled book, The Case Against Impeaching Trump. Much of what purportedly makes Dershowitz compelling as a Trump defender is his past history as a supporter of Hillary Clinton (he contributed $5,400 to her presidential campaign in 2016 and $2,700 to her joint fundraising committee in 2015).

But Dershowitz’s ties to Trump’s inner orbit were already in place at the time of his contributions to Hillary Clinton. These ties include conducting paid legal work for Trump’s biggest donor, Sheldon Adelson (who alongside his wife spent $35 million to help elect Trump) and sitting on the board of the Gatestone Institute, an anti-Muslim and anti-refugee think tank then chaired by Trump’s now-National Security Adviser John Bolton and partially funded by Trump megadonors Robert and Rebekah Mercer.

Court documents reveal that Dershowitz represented Adelson and his companies for over three years and in two high-profile lawsuits.

Working with Sands

According to Nevada Supreme Court filings, Dershowitz represented Las Vegas Sands, its Macau subsidiary, Sands China, and Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former Sands China CEO Steven Jacobs. Dershowitz first appeared in court filings related to the case on March 17, 2016. And since March 29, 2013, Dershowitz represented Las Vegas Sands in another lawsuit filed by Richard Suen, a Hong Kong businessman who claimed that Sands owed him $5 million plus two percent of the company’s Macau gaming revenue in return for his help in securing a gaming license for Sands Macau and arranging meetings for Adelson in Beijing.

The Nevada Supreme Court found that Suen’s company “presented substantial evidence that facilitating the Beijing meetings [for Sheldon Adelson] benefitted [Las Vegas Sands]” and ordered a new hearing to determine damages.

Jacobs and Sands reached a confidential settlement in May 2016. There were no further filings for either case in the Nevada Supreme Court after summer 2016.

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. And here I thought his name was either spelled: All Derp Wits -or- All Douche Wits

[Hortensis]

2. We know there's some corruption of some sort.

From his record, he was always prone to forays into far left thinking and, actually, wherever attention-grabbing cases and opportunism took him, including farther left-to-right, but he didn't stay on the right after the case was over and the cameras gone, as far I know.

In any case, although his...ethical and ideological perambulations never earned him high praise in that respect, he's no longer a person whose achievements once occasionally earned him real respect from his colleagues. That's over. But he seems to function too well to chalk it up to, say, personality change from brain damage.

Russia's not the only big interest that can coerce people into cooperation, and that's also a possibility.

Whatever it is, it's epidemic these days and needs a working name. Dershowitz-Giuliani syndrome?