Monthly Archives: September 2015

Iipay Nation to Face Joint Federal and State Prosecution

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel will face a joint lawsuit from the federal government and the State of California that seeks to put an end to its online gaming ambitions. The Iipay had vowed to go it alone in California and launch an online poker site regardless of whether the state and its squabbling […]

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Wynn Interactive withdraws online gambling application in New Jersey

Casino mogul Steve Wynn is passing on Atlantic City, again, as Wynn Interactive has withdrawn a license application to conduct Internet gambling in New Jersey.

In a Sept. 2 letter to the gaming enforcement division, a lawyer for Wynn wrote that “at this time, Wynn does not wish to proceed with its application.” The division allowed it to withdraw the application two days later.

Wynn Interactive took preliminary steps in July 2013 to enter New Jersey’s Internet gambling market and would have partnered with Caesars Interactive. But the company later warned it might still change its mind as Steve Wynn said that Internet gambling “is not a good entrepreneurial opportunity.”

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Boston challenge to Wynn Resorts casino back in court

The City of Boston’s lawsuit challenging the validity of a license awarded for a casino in Everett returns to court on Tuesday afternoon, when a Superior Court judge is expected to consider whether to allow the legal challenge to go forward. Under an aggressive legal strategy pursued by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the City of Boston has filed hundreds of pages of legal documents in its claim that the state Gaming Commission’s award last year of a coveted casino license to Wynn Resorts was “the product of a corrupt process.”