Posted on 05/28/2023 5:16:32 PM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration took steps in several recent disputes involving lucrative upstate gambling rights that were in line with the interests of Delaware North, where hubby Bill Hochul works, a new report says.
Just last month, the governor agreed to a last-minute tweak to the state budget to restructure the public-private board overseeing western New York’s Batavia Downs hotel and casino, a competitor of the multibillion-dollar firm where Bill Hochul is senior counsel, the New York Times said.
While Delaware North says it is no longer interested in acquiring Batavia, the restructuring could presumably make such a move easier, the outlet said — although acknowledging there is no evidence Hochul or her husband has done any wrongdoing in any of the cases.
The board’s restructuring came after the Hochul administration froze $564 million in assets of the Seneca Nation — another Delaware North rival — and used $418 million of the money last year for a new stadium for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills in her hometown.
According to the governor’s office, the state froze Seneca’s assets last year because the company failed to keep up payments that were part of an agreement to pay off overdue revenues and defaulted.
Delaware North was reportedly in line for the concessions contract at the new Bills venue, although the stadium’s overseers have since said that they will award the contract to another company in 2026.
“What the governor did was literally putting politics over people,” Seneca President Matthew Pagels alleged in November.
“It will never be forgotten what happened,” Pagels claimed.
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no surprise- this was well reported before the 2022 election yet the morons in NY, specifically NY shitty, elected her. I predicted this before the election- Hochul will be the third consecutive rat gov in the state of NY to resign in a disgrace.
And the Rats mutilating children and murdering nascent life.
FWIW, I just ran across this from last year...
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