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Mohegan Sun CEO Bobby Soper Resigns Amid Financial Investigation
Mohegan Sun CEO Bobby Soper has resigned from his executive role with the tribal gaming company as an investigation into potential financial regulatory shortcomings continues. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is determining whether "possible operational control deficiencies" were incurred over the last...
Georgia Convenience Store Gambling Raid Puts Three in Jail
A convenience store gambling operation has been shutdown after police in Georgia raided the suspected business this week. The Marietta Police Department said in a press release that a two-year surveillance into two Gantts Food grocery stores began as a drug trafficking...
Atlantic City Casino Sector Starts Year With A Bang, Thanks to No Storms, Online, and House Luck
Atlantic City’s casinos began the year strongly, up almost eight percent in January on the previous year, continuing a modest upward trend for the sector in 2016. Total win for the casinos came in at $204.7 million, compared to $190.1 million for January...
MGM Resorts Misses Fourth-Quarter Projections, but Springfield Casino Construction Ahead of Schedule
MGM Resorts posted improved fourth-quarter revenues in 2016 compared to the previous year, but the generated income fell far short of projections. The Las Vegas-headquartered gaming and hospitality company reported net income of nearly $70 million for the final three months of...
Trump Name Removed from Shuttered Taj Mahal In Atlantic City
President Donald Trump’s name has been removed from the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, four months after it was closed by his friend and Special Adviser on Regulatory Reform, the billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn. It was Icahn who had persuaded...
Pete Rose Still Loves Gambling, and Doesn’t Much Care What You Think
Gambling cost Pete Rose a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and ruined his personal reputation. Banned from the game since reaching a plea deal with the league in 1989, the all-time hits leader said this week he still loves...
Tabcorp Hit with AU$45 Million Fine Over AML Failures
Australian betting giant Tabcorp has agreed to pay a AU$45 million ($34.6 million) penalty for violations of its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) obligations. It’s by far the highest ever fine imposed for such transgressions by Australian authorities. The Australian...
Borgata to Get Just Half of Back-Owed Tax Refund from New Jersey Coffers
Atlantic City will pay its top-producing casino Borgata $72 million, less than half of the $165 million it owes the gaming operator in property tax refunds. The agreement, according to the Press of Atlantic City, was negotiated by New Jersey state overseers,...
Brandon Steven, 2010 WSOP Main Event Top-10 Poker Player, Subject of Federal Investigation
Kansas businessman and well-known poker player Brandon Steven is under surveillance by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), and he apparently wants the world to know about it. Media outlets in Kansas have published a letter this week provided by Steven that...
Chicago Cubs Favorite at Sportsbooks to Repeat as World Series Champs
The Chicago Cubs are the heavy favorite at Nevada sportsbooks to win the 2017 World Series and defend their Major League Baseball (MLB) title. Vegas always like a winner, and when it comes to writing odds on professional sports futures, the oddsmakers...
