Now, the legislature fears Larrick and Boyd may have been thrown under a bus for upholding the spirit of the bill, as passed by the legislature.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a lot of rumors flying around, and that\u2019s why we wanted you to come in today,\u201d Senate Finance Chairman Craig Blair (R-Berkeley) told Buffington. \u201cIt\u2019s disturbing the hell out of me right now the way this is taking place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sen. Corey Palumbo (D-Kanawha) said he feared the lottery had become \u201canother agency that may be in dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buffington revealed that several leagues had recently submitted public comments calling for regulations to be amended, which he was reviewing. While the leagues appear to have dropped their pursuit of an integrity fee in West Virginia, they had asked for casinos to be required to purchase official game data from the leagues, rather than from third-party providers, he said.<\/p>\n
They also wanted authority to prohibit certain bets such as those based on individual player performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s virtually no support in the legislature to require [casinos] to enter into these contracts,\u201d Delegate Paul Espinosa (R-Jefferson) warned Buffington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
West Virginia lawmakers are anxious to know what happened to their missing lottery officials and whether a possible spat with Governor Jim Justice over sports betting had anything to do with it. Lottery Director Alan Larrick mysteriously resigned on August 31, the day after West Virginia launched its first legal sports book, and state lawmakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":88399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,61,13592,1,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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