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Caesars Entertainment Sues Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published December 12, 2013 at 4:04 PM EST
Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby
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Massachusetts Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby

A failed bidder for a casino license in Massachusetts has sued the chairman of the state gaming commission. 

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

   Ceasars Entertainment filed a federal court lawsuit Thursday questioning the objectivity and fairness of gaming commission chairman Stephen Crosby.   The suit highlights Crosby’s past business ties to someone who could profit handsomely if a casino proposed by Wynn Resorts is built in Everett.  Crosby has said the state ethics commission has cleared him of a conflict of interest.

    "I think a fair and reasonable person will conclude that I can be objective about this."

   Ceasars was forced to drop out of the casino competition in eastern Massachusetts earlier this year because of concerns it would not pass the mandatory state background check.  The suit alleges the commission’s investigators were much tougher on Ceasars than on MGM Resorts.  The staff recommended MGM be found suitable to pursue a casino project in Springfield.

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Paul Tuthill
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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