The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) has pushed back hard against a local media report that accused the regulator of bias toward Wynn Resorts’ Boston-area casino project.

On Monday, the MGC’s Director of Communications Elaine Driscoll issued a statement calling last week’s Boston Magazine article – titled How Massachusetts Went All in on Steve Wynn – “remarkable for its exclusions, misrepresentations and innuendo” and “a flawed and misleading narrative of the Region A casino licensing process.”

The Boston Magazine article was published a few weeks after MGC chairman Stephen Crosby abruptly resigned, saying he’d been accused of prejudging the outcome of the MGC’s probe into what Wynn execs knew regarding allegations of sexual harassment involving then-CEO Steve Wynn. The investigation’s findings could determine whether the company is allowed to operate its in-development Encore Boston Harbor project, which is scheduled to open in June 2019.

The article claims that after Wynn was awarded the sole Boston-area casino license in 2014, “it became clear that the commission’s vetting hadn’t been as thorough as Crosby had promised, and that Crosby himself had overlooked red flags and made excuses for Wynn.”