The Gaming Commission is voting today to give the Springfield area casino license to MGM. Because of the possibility that the casino law will be repealed in the November election, the actual vote that Commission members take will be to confirm their intention to award the license at some indefinite future date. (The Commission did not respond to my inquiry whether there was any symbolic meaning in its decision to schedule this vote for a Friday the 13th.)
Meanwhile, the Globe is reporting today that Anthony Gattineri, who owns nearly half of the site in Everett on which Wynn Resorts is proposing a casino, has changed his mind and will now agree to sign a pledge that there are no secret partners in his ownership interest (including but not limited to Charles Lightbody, who has served prison time for assault and has suggested that he would benefit from the sale of the land). No word yet on whether Gattineri’s partner Dustin DeNunzio, who has admitted deliberately back-dating other documents relating to the land sale, would also be willing to backdate Gattineri’s pledge.
