In response, MGM Resorts doubled down on its $675 million casino proposal for Bridgeport, and urged Connecticut lawmakers to open a competitive bidding process if they want to expand gaming.<\/p>\n
Mashantucket attorneys claim the Native American tribe and Mohegan officials received letters from the DOI in September 2017 saying approval documents will soon come. However, the federal agency later backtracked on that claim when it returned the gaming compact submissions to the two tribes and state.<\/p>\n
\nThe tribes claim “Heller directly pressured Secretary Zinke to do what was necessary to stop the Tribes’ joint venture casino project during a private dinner at a steakhouse in Las Vegas.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Meanwhile, MGM Springfield reported it made $27 million in gross gaming revenue in September, which was the casino’s first full month in operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Mashantucket Pequot tribe in Connecticut isn’t giving up on its plans to build a satellite casino on non-sovereign land in East Windsor near the Massachusetts border despite a federal judge recently delivering a grave ruling to the project’s future. In a new federal court procedural request, lawyers for the Mashantucket Pequots argue US Department […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":90832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,18,61,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Connecticut Tribe Argues Improper Lobbying in DOI Failure to Respond<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n