Gambling Documents To Stay Secret
Five months after investors, entrepreneurs and gambling companies applied for slot-machine licenses, many of the documents they filed with Pennsylvania's gambling regulatory agency have not been made public.
That includes documents supplied to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board that identify controlling shareholders in the slots parlors, their business debts, criminal histories, and dealings with community groups and gambling regulators in other states. Gaming board spokesman Nick Hays said some of the agency's 170 employees are going through boxes of documents to determine which items from the 22 applications will be released publicly and which will be kept confidential.
"We are close to having them ready, but we're not there yet," Hays said. He said he expects the documents to be released well before the first licensing hearings are held, which is expected to happen in late August. Media attorney Teri Henning, of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, said the gaming board should be making individual documents public as soon as it can rather than waiting for a total review of all the materials submitted.
June 12, 2006
Posted By Hector Rodriguez
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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