This is lengthy, but worth the read:
Genting Connected to Islamic Extremists?
Genting is the current Gambling Investor supporting the Mashpee Wampanoag lifestyle.
Don’t forget:
Wampanoag financial backers a terror funding source?
Middleboro is back in the mix of Slot Barn locations:
From: I don’t care what you think or what you heard…..
but IGRA and complex law, court decisions, potential congressional proposals, decisions based on whims and changes in Administration, pose great local risk.
What is being proposed on Beacon Hill is UNCONSTITUTIONAL – pure and simple.
Middleboro has or had an Agreement – Intermunicipal Agreement with a Sovereign Nation, the Mashpee Wampanoags to place a parcel or parcels of land into ‘Trust’ – in simple terms, to create an “Indian Reservation” in Middleboro.
Beacon Hill has failed to employ knowledgable legal counsel that specializes in this area of the law:
Competitor’s Legal Challenge
A potential competitor for the tribe—KG Urban Enterprises, which has proposed redeveloping blighted waterfront property in New Bedford into a resort casino—has called into question whether the special treatment the tribe receives in the bill is legal.A legal analysis solicited by the development firm and written by prominent Indian gaming attorney Marsha A. Sajer argues that the state cannot treat tribes differently than commercial businesses under state law.
“A state gaming law that provides a tribal preference in a state licensing process is facially unconstitutional as race-based discrimination that violates the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution,” Ms. Sajer wrote.
Such a law would create two groups, “tribes (favored) and all others (disfavored),” based solely on race, she wrote. Under state law, Native American tribes are a racial group to be treated like any other.
While Congress can legally treat tribes differently, states cannot, she wrote.
