A provision to ban campaign contributions to legislators from gambling corporations did not end up in the final version. (wamc.org)
NIAGARA FALLS — Seneca President Barry Snyder this morning handed Gov. Andrew Cuomo a check for $ 349 million, the money that the nation's gambling corporation withheld from the state during a four and a half year dispute over gambling rights in Western New York, (niagarachamber.org)
The hearing comes two days after the New York Times reported that a lobbying group closely associated with Cuomo, the Committee to Save New York, had received over $ 2 million from the gambling corporation Genting, just weeks before the governor made a Genting convention center project the centerpiece of his State of the State message. (wrvo.org)