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Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta is on Capitol Hill today to appear before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee as its members consider his nomination to be the U.S. Ambassador to Italy ...

Houston's Tilman Fertitta has been confirmed as United States Ambassador to Italy and San Marino. The billionaire businessman, who was nominated to the post by then President-elect Donald Trump in ...

As part of the process to be confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, billionaire Houston businessman Tilman Fertitta was required to provide broad financial disclosures and to ...

University of Houston President Renu Khator talks with Tilman Fertitta, board of regents chair. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Fertitta to be ambassador to Italy. (Mark Felix For The Texas ...

HOUSTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta, 83-14, to serve as the ambassador to Italy and San Marino. Fertitta is the CEO of Landry’s — which ...