The Billionaire And The Con Artist

The email from a dead billionaires secret son was promising. The sender, a man who said his famous father had built the worlds largest casino company, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, explained how he had a lot of information to share. I should know, he wrote, I am the biological son of Sheldon Adelson. The first time the man who introduced himself as Sheldon Adelson, Jr. called, it was from a phone with a Las Vegas area code. Within minutes, he spun a wild yarn about how his ultrarich fatherwho passed away in 2021 leaving a 35 billion fortune to his wife, Miriam, and his kids and a global 10. 3 billion (2023 net revenue) casino empire with properties in Las Vegas, Macau and Singaporemet his mother. Read the full story on Forbes: Forbes Daily Briefing shares the best of Forbes reporting on wealth, business, entrepreneurship, leadership a