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Wynn's $1.6B resort wins Boston casino license
http://www.tauntongazette.com/article/20140916/NEWS/140917176/1994/NEWSWynn's $1.6B resort wins Boston casino license
BOSTON (AP) — Wynn Resorts has bested Mohegan Sun for the lucrative Boston-area casino license.
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission voted Tuesday afternoon to award the license to the Las Vegas casino giant for its proposed $1.6 billion resort casino on a former chemical plant in Everett. Connecticut-based Mohegan Sun had proposed $1.1 billion casino at the Suffolk Downs horse racing track in Revere.
The decision came after Wynn earlier Tuesday conceded to a number of significant changes the commission made on the plan, including re-designing its 27-story hotel tower and paying more toward plans to address traffic through Sullivan Square in Boston.
Commissioners, in their support of the Wynn project, noted that Wynn promised to offer higher salaries to casino workers and proposed spending more in hard construction costs than Mohegan Sun.
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How true. A local Indian tribe is in deep shit in Alabama because it got involved in the licensing process. Seems they launderied money and spun it back into Republican lawmakers pockets to keep other casinos from being built in the state.
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(Hubbard is/was the Alabama House leader involved in kick-backs, casino licensing)
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-prominent-alabama-republican-twice.html
NOW THE TERRIBLE thing is I like to gamble at that casino and it rips me up that somehow, someway I was giving money to a Republican laundering machine.