mystery owner, it was the las vegas review journal's own staff who was forced to ferret out their own owner. that was sheldon adeleson. it's not at all weird for super rich people to give money to political candidates nor weird for them to buy newspapers. it was weird that he tried to buy and run a newspaper anonymously, but his reporting staff caught him. he went into this election cycle planning to donate $100 million for the republican nominee. he did meet with trump, reportedly, but he did not reportedly open up his money spigots. he is now in the paper business, baby. when you're buying ink by the barrel, even if you don't want to spend your money, you might want to spend some of that ink