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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Remember the names: Wilbur Ross, Breitbart, Robert Mercer, Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Strategic Campaign Group, Penn National,


JUST WOW! 

Scandal Erupts After ‘Bloomberg News’ Links FBI Raid Directly To Trump Administration


By Gloria Christie -
An FBI raid of a harmless-sounding company blossomed into a full-fledged trail of swampy tracks that led directly back to the Trump administration. This week the FBI descended upon Strategic Campaign Group, a Republican campaign consulting group in Annapolis, Maryland, and then the surprises began.
The president of Strategic Campaign Group Kelley Roger told the Baltimore Sun that six FBI agents arrived at his company at about 8:30 a.m. carrying a warrant to search and seize records. They left about 4:30 p.m. carrying documents and a computer.
Jayne Miller  ✔@jemillerwbal
Annapolis firm targeted by FBI touted for pioneering the use of technology in political campaigns. Represents GOP candidates nationwide
The company that the FBI raided is related to two of Trump’s campaign advisers, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. The latter continues to advise the president, according toBloomberg News.
Paying Attention @sharonjenna
FBI vehicles parked along Conduit Street In Annapolis during raid of Strategic Campaign Group,  political consulting firm.
Strategic Campaign Group’s senior adviser Dennis Whitfield was political director at BKSH and Associates, which provided strategic government relations counseling. Paul Manafort and Roger Stone formed Strategic Campaign Group in 1996 according to Bloomberg, but left before Whitfield came on board.
Strategic Campaign Group and another company named Cambridge Analytica, which is a small data analytics organization are linked. Owner Robert Mercer supported Donald Trump.The Guardian reported that the president’s Chief White House Analyst, Steve Bannon sat on Cambridge Analytica’s board of directors and took over Breitbart with an investment of $10 million from Mercer.
The two men further linked their media empire when Bannon co-founded Government Accountability Institute with Mercer’s daughter. The company weaponized political narratives found through dark internet trawling.
According to PBS, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross represented bond holders [debt holders] in Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino in New Jersey. He could have foreclosed on the casino. Instead,  he found a way to tighten the casino’s budget, lower Trump’s debt, and ended up:
‘Avoiding a total collapse of his [Trump’s] real estate empire.’
Strategic Campaign Group and Donald Trump’s New Jersey casino Taj Mahal are also linked. The director of the political organization Kelley Rogers also worked for Penn National Gaming, a regional and major market gaming management firm.
In addition, Thomas Burke joined Penn National Gaming where he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Regional Operations in 2008, according to a Penn National Gaming press release. Before that, he held senior management positions at Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and Trump Castle.
The Senate Intelligence Committee reportedly started looking into money laundering penalties levied against the Taj Mahal. In 2015, the Treasury Department hit the casino for money laundering.
RiotWomenn @riotwomennn
FBI executing a search warrant at Republican consulting & fundraising firm Annapolis, MD - Strategic Campaign Grouphttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-raids-republican-campaign-consultants-in-maryland/article/2622839 …

That ties Trump to several investigations with one ugly bow.

http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/05/13/scandal-erupts-after-bloomberg-news-links-fbi-raid-directly-to-trump-administration/



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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

EXPANDED GAMBLING: Massachusetts: NO!, New Jersey: NO!, Rhode Island: YES!






New Jersey, Massachusetts Voters Reject Casino Expansion

by  | 11.09.2016


Voters in New Jersey and Massachusetts on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected ballot measures that would have expanded casino gambling.
In New Jersey, a ballot question permitting two new casinos in northern New Jersey was rejected by a 78-22 per cent margin. Though the referendum did not specify where the casinos would be located, the measure was pushed by Meadowlands racetrack owner and real estate developer Jeff Gural and had the support of the operators of Monmouth Park. A statement from Gural and co-supporter Paul Fireman, CEO of Reebok, said they were “disappointed but not surprised” by the outcome.
It was the most lopsided defeated for any statewide referendum in New Jersey history, according to NJ.com.
Massachusetts voters by a 69-31 margin rejected developer Eugene McCain's push for a second slot machine parlor in the state, to be located in Revere, near Suffolk Downs. Suffolk Downs did not support the initiative. Current Massachusetts law permits three casinos and one slots parlor in the state.
Rhode Island voters narrowly approved a measure, subject to local approval, permitting transfer of an existing casino from Newport to Tiverton located 400 feet from the  Massachusetts state line.

Question 1, authorizing second slots parlor in Massachusetts, fails


Voters on Tuesday rejected developer Eugene McCain's push for a second slots parlor in Massachusetts, according to the Associated Press.
Question 1 would have allowed the set-up of the second Bay State slots facility. Sixty-one percent of voters said "no," while 39 percent backed the measure.
Under current law, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission is allowed to license up to three resort casinos and a single slot parlor.
Penn National Gaming operates a slots facility, Plainridge Park Casino, in Plainville, near the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border. The facility opened in June 2015.
At least two casinos are on the horizon: MGM is building a casino in Springfield, set to open in 2018, while Wynn Resorts is constructing a casino in Everett, just north of Boston.
But McCain, the developer, wanted to build a 1,250-machine slots parlor in Revere, despite voters saying "no" in a non-binding referendum in October.
He and proponents of Question 1 said it would bring jobs and millions in revenue to local communities. But opponents pointed to Plainridge "underperforming" in providing revenue as additional gambling facilities are on the way.
In 2014, Massachusetts voters rejected a ballot initiative calling for the repeal of the state's expanded gambling laws, 60 percent to 40 percent.
On the ballot, the yes-or-no question read: "Do you approve amending the Constitution to permit casino gambling in two additional counties in this ...

Money raised by supporters of the casino question totaled $3.2 million, ... National Gaming, which operates the Plainridge Park Casino in Plainville.
New Jersey voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure to expand casino gambling into the northern part of the state that could have eroded ...


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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Plainridge Slot Barn Declining Revenue, Gambling Market Saturation....



What other industry other than State Sponsored Addiction gets reported monthly?




Plainridge slots revenue falls for 2nd straight month
The Mass Gaming Commission says Plainridge generated $12.6M in September, down from $15.2M in August.
WWLP.COM



Plainridge slots revenue falls for 2nd straight month

Plainridge's parent company said the trends are consistent with other property openings.

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Monday, June 22, 2015

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By George Donnelly (@geodonnelly) - with Sara Brown
We regret to inform you it's Monday. Here's what's happening
Gov. Baker joins Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders and Attorney General Maura Healey to announce the recommendations of the Opioid Working Group in Room 157, State House, 11 a.m. ... State officials make an $88.5 million Springfield Union Station funding announcement in Springfield. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito joins Congressman Richard Neal and Mayor Domenic Sarno... Boston Mayor Martin Walsh hosts a USA Women's Soccer viewing party with members of the Boston Breakers, the city's professional women's soccer team, City Hall Plaza, One City Hall Square, 8 pm. The team is slated to play against Colombia.

The week ahead: Here comes the Master Developer?
The Dorchester Reporter (Lauren Dezenski) broke the news last week about Boston 2024 deploying the concept of a "master developer," a deep-pocketed, well-established player who would buy land around Widett Circle, the proposed site for the Olympic stadium, build out the area and have development rights thereafter. The Herald reported out the story later in the week, quoting Boston 2024's Rich Davey as saying he likes the idea. Expect the Globe to either discover or advance the story early this week. This seems to be the way the Boston 2024 people will have sell the of the Olympic venue conundrums -- shifting the acquisition risk away from the taxpayer to the private sector.

Tom Brady will make his appeal to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday, and it will dominate the headlines for a few days. It's good odds Tom will get a break -- there are simply too many lawyers in the room. So look for the four-game suspension to be reduced. Goodell will play judge and jury. Here's a thorough take by Ben Volin yesterday http://tinyurl.com/ogzvw5x and a solid pro-con analysis in today's Herald by Jeff Howe. http://tinyurl.com/q2qvbp5
  
At long last, a casino opens in this week in Plainville. How did we ever make it to 2015 without one? Expect plenty of stories, like the Globe's front page article this morning, on what it all means. Here's Steve Crosby, state chairman of the state Gaming Commission: "This is as big a change in the cultural, social, and economic face of Massachusetts as I have seen in almost 50 years." Does it really mean that much to be able to drop money into a fancy electronic slot machine? Hyperbole reigns.

The biotech boom continues, as three local life sciences companies are expected to complete initial public offerings this week. The Boston Business Journal's Don Seiffert has the story. http://tinyurl.com/phz97uk
Follow-up: Learning more about 'critical' state employees
It may not be the most "critical" story out there, but it does raise some questions about the Baker administration's workforce reduction plans. And I can't let it go yet. In the process of hashing out the early retirement incentives designed to save about $170 million, Administration & Finance was asked by the Legislature to flag "critical" employees who would not be eligible because, well, they were important to an agency's mission. But the Baker people seem to have gotten away with a bizarre definition of a "critical" state employee. To A&F, a critical employee is someone whose position is supported by outside funds, and thus, whose departure would not save the Commonwealth money. A "critical" employee is actually an irrelevant one, as far as saving the state money goes. On Friday I relayed the story of Donna Brennan, a longtime state employee on the Merit Rating Board who wants to take the retirement incentive. Because the insurance industry funds her job, she is not eligible, as are workers in many departments. The same goes for Division of Banks and Department of Public Utilities. The question remains if anyone has been tagged as "critical" in the old-fashioned sense -- as the Legislature asked. Shira Schoenberg of MassLive covered this strange semantic policy last month, and it seems no lawmakers have objected to the weird definition of "critical."

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 Another key BRA official leaves...
...And now Mayor Marty Walsh has additional opportunity to reshape the agency, writes the Herald. Enrico Lopez is leaving for Florida, where his wife has a new job. "...Lopez was often the first stop for developers' proposals, and he supervised the project managers who track them through the approval process," the Herald's JackEncarnacao writes. http://tinyurl.com/ouhe234
  
State's new definition of poor has big policy implications
A new methodology of categorizing low-income students has drastically reduced the numbers believed to be low-income from about three-quarters to half, according to a story in the Globe by James Vaznis. The percentages are lower across the state as well. "The new calculations are expected to lead tom major changes by the Legislature in the way state aid for needy students is distributed to local schools and could even affect how much school systems receive in state reimbursements for construction projects," Vaznis writes. http://tinyurl.com/n9mc5tq

The weekend's best stuff, ICYMI
Go south, young men and women: Providence is making a comeback from the throes of the recession, in part because it is relatively cheap and has easy access to Boston. Some young techies are nesting there too, as early-stage startups gravitate towards inexpensive rent.

My question is, where's the story on Worcester? Isn't it making a comeback, too? Wait a minute, Paul McMorrow, now an economic development official, wrote one for the Globe a year and a half ago focused on reviving the downtown.http://tinyurl.com/ow6zvey
  
If we win, do we lose? Just what is the endgame of the city's suit against the state Gaming Commission? Some activists in East Boston are horrified that the city will prevail and put Suffolk Downs back in play. "...Walsh has a history of accommodating casino plans at Suffolk Downs - and that his ties to the track have deepened recently," writes the Globe editorial writer Alan Wirzbicki.http://tinyurl.com/no3th3r
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