Sentences with phrase «malaysian gambling company»

Malaysian gambling company Genting holds more than 75 percent control in Empire.

The Times reported last week that Genting, a Malaysian gambling company that had worked with Mr. Cuomo on a plan to build a convention center and casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, gave $ 400,000 to the group in 2011, and that the New York Gaming Association, a trade group founded by Genting and other companies, donated the $ 2 million in December.

The project, which was to have been built by a Malaysian gambling company at the Aqueduct racetrack near Kennedy Airport, was a signature initiative of Mr. Cuomo's and a central thrust of his State of the State address in January.

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But Mr. Cuomo said that under his proposal, «this is not the state building a convention center at all,» but rather a privately financed project, pursued in cooperation with the state by Genting, the Malaysian company that in October opened a gambling parlor at Aqueduct.