Sunday, March 6, 2011 | 1:42 p.m.
Nearly all of the $60,000-plus John Ensign took in for his legal defense fund during the final three months of 2010 can be connected to two casino companies – Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts – and the one (Mandalay Resorts) his father used to run. Three members of Sheldon Adelson’s family, Steve Wynn and his fiancé, former Mandalay No. 2 man Bill Richardson and a Sands executive gave all but a few hundred dollars from October through November.
Much of the large contributions during the third quarter of 2010 came from gaming executives or former casino company associates and neighbors of Ensign’s father, Mike Ensign.
(Thanks to POLITICO’s Manu Raju, who helped me obtain the documents that are not online and wrote about the reports last week. Some of this information has been previously reported elsewhere but never put into this form.)
Here are some of the notables from the last half of 2010, when he totaled more than $120,000:
The Adelson family (Sands) $26,000
Steve Wynn/Andrea Hissom (Wynn) $20,000
Tony Alamo (Mandalay) $10,000
Bill Richardson (Mandalay) $10,000
Terry Lanni (ex-MGM CEO) $10,000
The Burning Tree Trust (J. Bergman, Mike Ensign neighbor) $10,000
Yasmin, Oren Lukatz (Sands) $8,000
Randell Roberts (Mandalay) $5,000
Marc Schorr (Wynn) $5,000
Duncan Lee (bizman) $3,000
Tim Cashman (chamber) $1,000
Ex-Rep. Barbara Vucanovich $1,000
Peter Simon (Mandalay) $1,000
Chuck Lenzie (ex-utility CEO) $500
State Sen. Dean Rhoads $300
Jim Marsh (car dealer) $100
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