Genting, what else is new? Say GoodBye to Sterling Forest!

GENTING is an international Predatory Gambling Organization with no ties to any community beyond sucking them dry. [GENTING is the financial Sugar Daddy of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in Massachusetts.]

GENTING has spent wisely on LOBBYISTS and BUYING POLITICIANS [SEE FLORIDA].....

And no one questions......

The excerpt below was saved from a web site that was hacked the day it appeared [worth reading in its entirety].

When the web site was restored, the article had been removed.


New York State requires relatively little scrutiny in the contract Genting has with the State of New York to operate slot machines at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Genting made millions of dollars as the money-men behind two controversial Indian Casino gaming developments in the Eastern United States. In both cases, Genting operations were directed by G. Michael Brown, a former New Jersey Attorney General who was later charged with embezzlement and cocaine use in the Seneca Tribal Court.

Brown was charged with putting various mistresses on the casino payroll and using casino funds to pay for luxury condominiums, imported sports cars and expensive jewelry for them. Brown famously drove a 4-door sedan owned by the Seneca Tribe through the picture window of a Niagara Falls resident while driving drunk.
Genting was the financier of the Seneca Niagara Casino Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York. Genting charged the tribe an exorbitant 28 percent interest rate, potentially in violation of the Indian Gaming Regulations under the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Genting also stayed in the deal for almost 15 years when they were legally limited to five. Seneca Tribal Council members have testified that armed Chinese thugs showed up to collect Genting’s money when tribal lawyers pointed out that Genting was violating the law.
FROM:
Genting Connected to Islamic Extremists?

Don’t Gamble Away Sterling Forest

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDOCT. 7, 2014

 

 

 

In 1996, a coalition of environmentalists, state and federal politicians and private donors cobbled together a deal that saved more than 20,000 acres of woodlands 44 miles away from New York City from development. The forests, some in New Jersey but most in New York, provide refuge for wildlife and clean drinking water for millions of people in New York and New Jersey.

 

Now comes another threat: a huge casino proposed by the Genting Group, a global casino operator and one of several companies hoping to take advantage of New York State’s decision to build four upstate gambling meccas. The complex would be located in Tuxedo, N.Y., a community virtually surrounded by the Sterling Forest; according to Genting, it would offer 1,000 hotel rooms, employ 4,000 people and draw seven million visitors a year, many from New York City. This is the last thing the pristine Sterling Forest watershed needs. A state board will choose the four winners from 16 candidates. None are likely to be as lucrative to its owner as this one, given its proximity to New York City. And none are likely to cause anywhere near as much environmental damage.

 

The New Jersey State Senate has unanimously passed a resolution urging New York to reject the Genting bid. The Palisades Interstate Park Commission, which is responsible for managing the forest, has denied Genting’s request for another interchange off the New York State Thruway to help bring traffic to the resort. These actions should give Genting pause. Yet the company barrels ahead anyway, offering to pony up $450 million for a one-time licensing fee that normally costs $70 million, pay for the interchange and devote a percentage of slot machine revenues to the upkeep of other state parks.

 

These blandishments should be resisted and the application denied.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/opinion/dont-gamble-away-sterling-forest.html?_r=0