Billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Mariam, have given half a million dollars to a super PAC supporting a popular rabbi running for Congress in northern New Jersey.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the Adelsons made their donations to Patriot Prosperity PAC, an independent-expenditure group backing Shmuley Boteach, whose House bid against eight-term incumbent Rep. Bill Bascrell (D-N.J.) is considered a long shot but could garner national attention with the big-money injection.
The Adelsons' financial support "is a game-changer, and I suspect there will be many more like it," Boteach told the Journal in a statement through his spokesman.
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