{"id":11392,"date":"2013-08-27T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:49:02","slug":"case-bets-seneca-scandal-atlantic-city-brings-on-the-girls-still-no-help-for-mashpee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-seneca-scandal-atlantic-city-brings-on-the-girls-still-no-help-for-mashpee\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Seneca scandal; Atlantic City brings on the girls; Still no help for Mashpee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. Scarcely was the ink dry on New York Gov. <strong>Andrew Cuomo<\/strong>&#8216;s deal with the state&#8217;s gaming-enabled tribes than the <strong>Seneca Indian Natio<\/strong><strong>n<\/strong> <a href=\"ww.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Millions-sweeten-the-casino-pot-4763128.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">stepped right into a scandal<\/a>. $5 million of an $8 million development deal would be in the form of &#8216;success fees&#8217; to lobbyist <strong>David Flaum<\/strong>. The $5 Million Question is whether Flaum was acting on the Senecas&#8217; behalf when the latter were lobbying the state. If he wants to clear his name, not acting guilty when reporters call would be a good start.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1496609050001&amp;playerID=2448849541001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAPLMIP6E~,BRrRHTAljlELD08zlMeHyAHjqVCNkbI2&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"https:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=1496609050001&amp;playerID=2448849541001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAPLMIP6E~,BRrRHTAljlELD08zlMeHyAHjqVCNkbI2&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"https:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=1496609050001&amp;playerID=2448849541001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAPLMIP6E~,BRrRHTAljlELD08zlMeHyAHjqVCNkbI2&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump Taj Mahal<\/strong> hopes to replace plummeting profits with plunging necklines (and that&#8217;s just the beginning). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/atlantic\/index.ssf\/2013\/08\/atlantic_city_bets_on_new_strip_club_to_boost_plunging_profits.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">It&#8217;s adding the first strip club<\/a> in <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>&#8216;s entire history of legal gambling. There&#8217;s plenty of skin being shown along the Boardwalk already but <strong>Scores<\/strong> ups the ante with some nearly bare titties for your titillation. But bring cash for there&#8217;s a 20% surcharge on credit card transactions. And, for the ultimate bummer, lap dances are <em>verboten<\/em>. To paraphrase <strong>The Associated Press<\/strong>, the quest isn&#8217;t why Scores is coming to A.C. but why somebody didn&#8217;t do this sooner? Scores is no ordinary titty bar but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressofatlanticcity.com\/news\/press\/atlantic\/new-adult-themed-casino-club-to-add-to-atlantic-city\/article_e1d5a748-f9bf-5f78-be3c-c899435be18d.html\" target=\"_blank\">a labyrinthine collection of seven venues<\/a>. What&#8217;s the over\/under on how long it&#8217;ll be before some damn fool decides to &#8220;make it rain&#8221; and sets off trouble?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8097\" title=\"Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mohegan2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mohegan2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mohegan2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mohegan2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It&#8217;s been a good week for <strong>Mohegan Sun<\/strong>. First off, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2013\/08\/pennsylvania_renews_mohegan_su.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">it received a three-year license renewal<\/a> for <strong>Pocono Downs<\/strong>, ensuring that it will continue to be one of the dominant presences in <strong>Pennsylvania<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/2013\/08\/26\/mohegan-sun-casino-plan-set-move-forward\/VJ5pZyZvo30LrhUwxr5nwI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">It&#8217;s also scheduled to ink a host-community pact<\/a> with <strong>Palmer<\/strong> later this week, putting it one step closer to a <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> casino. However, in southeastern Massachusetts, things may not be looking up for the <strong>Mashpee Wampanoags<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130826\/POLITICS03\/308260032\/U-S-overhauls-process-recognizing-Indian-tribes?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs\" class=\"broken_link\">Tribes only have to demonstrate continuity back to 1934<\/a>, which opens the door to gaming for a number of nations. But it&#8217;s not so good for <!--more-->the Mashpee Wamps, whose recognition postdates 1934. With no &#8220;<em>Carcieri<\/em> fix&#8221; on the way from Congress and a Dec. 31 deadline for applying for a Bay State casino, the Wampanoags&#8217; plight looks fairly bleak. In <strong>Milford<\/strong>, selectmen have two words for <strong>Foxwoods Massachusetts<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milforddailynews.com\/news\/x1655330058\/Milford-casino-Additional-money-sought-by-selectmen\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Mo&#8217; money<\/a>. $18 million a year isn&#8217;t good enough and they want to see the same kind of largesse that <strong>Wynn Resorts<\/strong> and <strong>Everett<\/strong> have agreed upon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re so close<\/strong> to football season you can almost taste it &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/drink\/las-vegas\/strip\/best-places-to-watch-football-in-las-vegas?utm_content=feature&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;u\" target=\"_blank\">and actually can<\/a> at these seven posh Las Vegas watering holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. Scarcely was the ink dry on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8216;s deal with the state&#8217;s gaming-enabled tribes than the Seneca Indian Nation stepped right into a scandal. $5 million of an $8 million development deal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-seneca-scandal-atlantic-city-brings-on-the-girls-still-no-help-for-mashpee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,4,166,112,167,101,95,25,74,32,9,20,169],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11396,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions\/11396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}