Casino industry legend Sheldon Adelson confirmed Thursday that he is the new owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, ending a bizarre week of confusion and speculation as to who had just acquired Nevada’s largest newspaper. “We understand the desire of the hard-working staff at the R-J and others in the community to know the identity of the paper’s new owners, and it was always our intention to publicly announce our ownership,” said a statement by the Adelson family published in the Review-Journal, whose reporters had been working frantically to determine who their new boss is. In a strange move that triggered the ire…