Sheldon Adelson — business (las vegas) with roots in the Russian Empire
Sheldon Adelson was an American business magnate and billionaire who built the Las Vegas Sands Corporation into the world's largest casino company, with properties in Las Vegas, Macau, and Singapore. He was also one of the most consequential political donors in American history, spending hundreds of millions on Republican causes.
Tracing the roots — Lithuania / Ukr
His father Arthur Adelson was a taxi driver who had emigrated from Lithuania (Russian Empire) and his mother's family had Ukrainian Jewish roots. Adelson grew up in poverty in Dorchester, Boston, and built his fortune from nothing — the immigrant's child who became a billionaire through sheer persistence. His Las Vegas Sands empire was built on the same gambling industry that Russian-Jewish immigrants had pioneered from the beginning.
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Lithuania / Ukr. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.