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Connecticut lawmakers and the state’s two tribes agreed to terms of legislation that would bring a third casino to the state, along with legal sports betting through run by the two tribes.

Currently, the only two casinos are located in the southeastern region of the state, near the Rhode Island border. The proposed third casino would be located in Bridgeport, about 90 minutes south and much closer to New York.

The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes, owners of Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods, would become partners for the Bridgeport casino. Earlier this year, there were reports of the two tribes partnering on a casino in the Hartford area. Since that report, the plans have shifted to a different location.

Gov. Ned Lamont was not involved in the legislation and it isn’t a lock that he supports the legislation, according to the Hartford Courant. Lamont received the legislation last week and wants to be involved in the process.

“A matter of such significance requires substantial involvement from multiple stakeholders, in particular, the executive branch,” Lamont told the Courant.

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Sen. Cathy Osten, a Democrat, has requested a special legislative session for later in the year to work on the legislation. Other Democrats are mulling over the idea of a special session and said that they will consult Lamont before making a final decision.

Along with a third casino, the proposed legislation would expand gaming in the state.

According to the Courant, ‘Tribes also would conduct sports betting at the casinos, via mobile apps and internet gambling.’ The state lottery would be allowed to sell tickets online and offer iKeno through their website.

Sports betting would be taxed at 8 percent and internet gambling would have a 10 percent tax-rate.

The tribes would be on the hook for the entire financial burden of the new casino. It forces the tribes to spend at least $100 million on the Bridgeport project in hopes that it would spark other businesses to sprout in the city and bring the total project to around $300 million in new investments.

There is a possibility that MGM, which was looking at Bridgeport as a possible site for a future casino, would take litigious action to stop the casino from breaking ground.

“They have sued many people,” said Osten when asked about the possible lawsuit. “That’s what they’ve done in the state of Connecticut, to stymie growth in business.”

If a court overturns the law, the bill would be revoked.

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Connecticut state officials and the state’s two gaming tribes are not taking no for an answer when it comes to the Department of the Interior Department’s refusal to act on the amended state tribal gaming compacts that were penned last year and forwarded to the department for its approval.

The approval is needed for the tribes to begin building their East Windsor casino that will, they hope, provide some defense against the effects of the $960 million MGM Springfield against their two casinos when it opens this fall. The tribes, the Mohegans and Mashantucket Pequots, operate the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Once fierce rivals, they have joined forces to form the joint authority MMCT to operate a third, satellite casino. But the refusal of the Interior Department to issue a ruling on the amended compact has frozen them in place—all the while that the MGM Springfield marches inexorably forward.

The acceptance of the amendments was a requirement of the legislation that authorized the third casino. That requirement was included because of the exclusivity clause of the compacts, which guarantees that the tribes will have a monopoly on gaming in the state, in exchange for paying the state 25 percent of their gaming profits.

So far, the state and tribes have gone to court to try to shake the action loose from the department. But last week several Connecticut members of Congress called on the department’s Office of Inspector General to look into the matter. U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Reps. John Larson and Joe Courtney, sent a letter to the Inspector General requesting the probe.

In their letter they wrote, “This decision raises serious questions as to whether the Department of the Interior is properly carrying out its longstanding legal trust responsibilities regarding Native American Tribes.”

Although the state and the tribes forged new compacts last year, the Interior Department did not act within the 45 days required by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) or so the tribes and the state contend. Endlessj poker.

The members of Congress imply that the department was improperly influenced by lobbying from MGM International and elected officials from Nevada, while refusing to see representatives from Connecticut.

They point to a February 1 article that appeared in Politico that documented that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and other department officials met with MGM lobbyists and members of Congress pushing for MGM.

“Specifically, the Politico article raised issues of potential conflicts of interest and impartial decision making, noting that the secretary refused to even talk with members of the Connecticut delegation about these Connecticut-specific amendments while ‘MGM and its allies had direct access to Interior,” says the letter.

MGM has fought the third, satellite casino in the courts and in the halls of the Connecticut legislature, seeing it as a direct threat to its Springfield casino. However, even if MGM can’t stop the casino, delaying it until after the Springfield casino opens might be an effective strategy.

Says the letter, “The Nevada-based MGM has a direct economic interest regarding Interior’s decision on the proposed amendments, as the casino that is the subject of the amendment could potentially compete with its newly constructed casino on the Connecticut-Massachusetts border. However, MGM has no connection to the legal trust responsibility Interior has to the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot Tribes. As such, the company’s activities should have had no bearing on the question before the department or on its decision regarding the proposed amendments.”

The department’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Michael S. Black in September sent a letter to Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen indicating that the department didn’t have enough “information upon which to make a decision as to whether a new casino operated by the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot Tribes would or would not violate the exclusivity clauses of the gaming procedures.”

This, despite the fact that months earlier another official from the department had sent a letter stating that the department was likely to approve of the amended compact.

This prompted the tribes and the state to file a lawsuit in November to try to force a decision.

MGM’s spokesman Uri Clinton, who is also the legal counsel for the company, issued a statement responding to the call for a probe: “There is litigation already underway which will ultimately determine matters in the public interest that the proposed federal review seeks to address,” adding, “A federal court will resolve these issues in due course.”

If the tribes are ever allowed to open their $300 million East Windsor Casino, at least they know approximately what it will look like.

MMCT, the joint tribal authority, last week submitted tentative drawings, sketches really, to the city of East Windsor’s planning and regulatory boards, indicating a one-story facility with a five-story, 1,800 space parking structure at the 26-acre site of the defunct casino, which will be demolished beginning February 28. MMCT paid $4 million for the property.

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