{"id":4906,"date":"2010-10-21T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:00:32","slug":"quote-of-the-day-238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-238\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3917\" title=\"24aqueduct.600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/24aqueduct.600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/24aqueduct.600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/24aqueduct.600-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/24aqueduct.600-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\u201cAt each turn, our state leaders abdicated their public duty, failed to  impose ethical restraints and focused on political gain at a cost of  millions to New Yorkers. Shamefully, the public\u2019s best interest was a matter of  militant indifference to them.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>New York State<\/strong> Inspector General <strong>Joseph Fisch<\/strong>, on the process whereby <strong>Aqueduct Entertainment Group<\/strong> &#8212; which included Las Vegas-based <strong>Navegante Group<\/strong> and the Rev. <strong>Floyd Flake<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/22\/nyregion\/22casino.html?emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">was juiced into a potentially mega-lucrative racino contract<\/a>. That contract has now been rebid to <strong>Genting Bhd.<\/strong>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304741404575563873292898214.html?mod=dist_smartbrief\" target=\"_blank\">also has big plans<\/a> in <strong>London<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAt each turn, our state leaders abdicated their public duty, failed to impose ethical restraints and focused on political gain at a cost of millions to New Yorkers. Shamefully, the public\u2019s best interest was a matter of militant indifference to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-238\/\">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":[120,101,33,111,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906"}],"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=4906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}