Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson’s bad decisions have cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars, and a court should take control of the company, a shareholder says in a derivative complaint in Clark County Court. William A. Sokolowski says he bought shares in Las Vegas Sands in February 2012, and that since then decisions largely made by Adelson and current and former board members have violated fiduciary duties to shareholders. Sokolowski wants the court to take control of the company and shareholders reimbursed for losses. The 78-page complaint accuses Adelson of “operating the company in an illegal manner,…

From Poker News Sheldon Adelson made himself abundantly clear. There is no longer reason to hope the Las Vegas Sands chairman and CEO has or ever will come around on online poker. In an op-ed piece on forbes.com followed by an interview with Bloomberg Television, Adelson (pictured) went much further than to voice his old moral concerns. He called Internet poker fool’s gold economically, a plague and cancer waiting to happen morally, and in an insult to poker players everywhere, not even a game of skill. “It’s a complete slap in the face to every poker player,” said John Pappas,”…