Here is a link to the new amendments for California's Indian casinos. No regulation here either.
http://www.menifee247.com/2007/12/california-proposition-94-95-96-97.htm
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Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Reality Check
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:58:17
From: Cathy <kitchat123@aol.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com , MHS <mspevack@.. .> wrote:
And, as often noted here, it should be a definite concern for anyone
gambling, or spending their money in any such fashion, what the
regulations are. The sad fact is that many of the detailed regulations
are not available.
I did a little research last night, and I wasn't feeling too warm or fuzzy when I discovered
Mohegan Sun's gaming commission reports to their Tribal Council. Self-regulation = no
regulation as far as I am concerned.
I also read, with interest, about how back in 1997 Connecticut' s top gambling regulator,
the Executive Director of the Division of Special Revenue, accepted a job as the executive
director of the gaming commission for Foxwoods. Apparently top regulators are normally
banned from taking a job with a gambling operation business for one year but this was
allowed due to a loophole, the loophole being that his new employer, the Mashantucket
Pequot Gaming Commission, should not be considered a business, but an agency in the
government of a tribal nation.
I will limit my play at these facilities to quarter play only in the future and on a much less
frequent basis. Maybe everything is above board, maybe it isn't. Since there are no neutral
parties doing the regulating, I guess no one knows for sure!
Cathy B.