{"id":155263,"date":"2020-11-13T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T23:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=155263"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T01:24:08","slug":"us-deputy-ag-rosen-shot-down-doj-case-against-zinke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/us-deputy-ag-rosen-shot-down-doj-case-against-zinke\/","title":{"rendered":"US Deputy AG Rosen Shot Down DOJ Case Against Ryan Zinke for Connecticut Casino Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen blocked a move by the DOJ\u2019s Public Integrity Section (PIN) to prosecute former interior secretary Ryan Zinke for allegedly lying to federal investigators about a Connecticut casino proposal.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke left office under a cloud in January 2019, having been invited to resign on Twitter by President Donald Trump. (Image: PBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As first reported in The<\/em> New York Times<\/em>, Rosen nixed the case against Zinke because he said it needed more work. But according to NYT<\/em> sources, prosecutors at PIN were irked by Rosen\u2019s refusal to play ball.\u00a0 The NYT<\/em> said that \u201cexacerbated a sense inside [\u2026PIN] that top department officials would hinder investigations into Mr. Trump and his officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zinke was invited to resign by Trump on Twitter in December 2018 as investigations by various federal bodies into the interior secretary\u2019s alleged improper conduct began to pile up.<\/p>\n

Potential Felony <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Days later, news broke that Zinke was facing a DOJ probe into whether he had made false statements to the DOI\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG), a potential felony. The OIG investigates corruption within the department and had been examining Zinke\u2019s refusal to green light a casino proposal in East Windsor, Connecticut for the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes.<\/p>\n

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Zinke is currently the subject of a federal lawsuit<\/a> filed by the tribes. They claim he obstructed the casino as a political favor to MGM Resorts and \u201cultimately buckled under undue political pressure\u201d from Nevada Republican Congressmen Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The proposed \u201cTribal Winds\u201d casino\u2019s location had been chosen strategically. Just a few miles from the Massachusetts border and 12 miles from MGM\u2019s new Springfield property, it was hoped Tribal Winds would blunt the new competition posed by MGM to the tribes\u2019 casinos in southern Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Why the Delay?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The project had the blessing of the Connecticut legislature. But because it was to be an off-reservation casino, amendments needed to be made to the tribes\u2019 compacts, and these needed sign off from the DOI\u2019s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).<\/p>\n

This should have been a routine matter. Under federal law, the DOI is required to issue a verdict on compacts within 45 days, and can only refuse on the grounds that a proposal violates the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA). But the tribes were left in limbo for more than a year.<\/p>\n

This is despite informal assurances by the BIA that approval was all but certain. The bureau had even drafted the approval letters, in October 2017. That\u2019s also when high-level DOI officials suddenly chose to intervene and do nothing.<\/p>\n

The PIN case is still technically open and, according to The Washington Post<\/em>, the OIG cannot release its report about Zinke\u2019s conduct in the casino affair until prosecutors decide whether to press on with it. That\u2019s something that may become easier to do under the next administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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