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Massachusetts Gaming Chief Asks Court To Dismiss Lawsuit

Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby
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Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby

Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby is asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit by Caesars Entertainment.

Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby
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Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby

In a court filing Crosby rejected claims that he treated Caesar’s unfairly in its failed bid to compete for a casino license in the greater Boston area.  He said the lawsuit’s allegations are inflammatory, but groundless. The suit questions Crosby’s impartiality in the casino licensing process because of an old business relationship with a co-owner of land in Everett, where Wynn Resorts wants to build a casino. Crosby  has  said the issue was resolved to the satisfaction of the state ethics commission..

Caesar’s withdrew in October from the competition for the lone casino license in eastern Massachusetts after concerns were raised in a background investigation by commission staffers.

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Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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