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As expected, state gaming regulators on Tuesday approved a casino license for the Tioga Downs Casino in the town of Nichols — adding a fourth casino to upstate New York.

The New York Gaming Commission is reviewing how the court decision could affect the state, and it would still need to license the four casinos before they can take sports bets.

A principal consultant hired by the state to assist in casino licensing said he has worked for 100 gaming companies in the past decade, but doesn't think that will conflict with his duties in New York.

«On behalf of my family, everyone at Wilmorite and our Lago Resort & Casino partners, employees and supporters, I want to thank the New York State Gaming Commission for the trust they have shown in us,» Wilmot said in a prepared statement issued seconds after the commission unanimously approved the license in New York City.

(WBNG)-- Of the four casinos recently awarded full - gaming licenses by New York State, Tioga Downs was the first to open.

After a year of planning, yesterday it was made official: the New York Gaming Commission awarded three casino licenses, including one for Sullivan County and another for Schenectady.

Indeed, the top backers of New York Jobs Now include mostly casino operators hoping to land a lucrative gaming license should the amendment pass.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who pushed hard to get Las Vegas - style casinos legalized in New York as a key component of his plan to revive the upstate economy, plans to visit the three communities that emerged victorious yesterday in the battle for gaming licenses.

Just as New York is mulling casino license applications, Moody's Investors Service downgraded the US gaming industry from it previous «stable» outlook to «negative.»

Nearly a year after officials named the locations for the first commercial casinos in New York, state regulators have yet to issue gaming licenses to any of the operators.

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Earlier today, Cuomo said he saw almost no reason the siting board's recommendations to the New York Gaming Commision would not will full approval and licensing from the state.

Instead, a siting board for the state's Gaming Commission today recommended New York license the Lago Resort and Casino, 42 miles west of downtown Syracuse.

Lee Park, a spokesman for the Gaming Commission, said that it had received no inquiries from the attorney general's office, but that the casino siting process «strictly followed the provisions of the Upstate New York Gaming Economic Development Act,» the 2013 law ratified by voters that allows up to seven new casinos to be licensed in New York.

After more than 14 months without a voice on the New York Gaming Commission, the Assembly and Senate are taking steps to place designees on the panel that will issue casino licenses later this year.

On Monday, New York State's gaming commission awarded three full casino licenses to the sites that got a recommendation last year, including the Lago Resort in the Finger Lakes town of Tyre.

The hearing, which also included testimony from scientists and Canadian gambling experts, is meant to help the gaming commission better evaluate applications from casino operators seeking licenses in New York.

But there's one problem: securing a New York casino gaming license that does not exist.

ALBANY >> Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to reopen the bidding for casino licenses in upstate New York to allow for a Las Vegas - style gaming hall in the state's «economically ailing» Southern Tier.

The Howe Cave Development Corp., the organization working to establish Howe Caverns as a resort casino location received confirmation Wednesday that its $ 1 million application fee for a casino license has been received by New York's gaming commission.

It was just over six months ago that the New York State Gaming Facility Location Board announced that it was recommending three casino licenses.

----------------------------- State Senator Tom Libous is calling on the New York State Gaming Facility Location Board, and the Governor to reconsider the Southern Tier's 2 applications for the fourth authorized casino license, at a press conference Friday in Binghamton:

Last week, it was revealed that Kentucky - based gaming giant Churchill Downs partnered with Saratoga Casino and Raceway, hoping to land one of the four casino licenses to be handed out by New York State.

The letter sent Thursday and signed by Montgomery County Executive Matt Ossenfort, Town of Florida Supervisor Eric Mead, and City of Amsterdam Mayor Anne Thane asks the New York State Gaming Commission to modify casino licensing requirements for Region 2.

Genting backed out of the convention - center project after the state refused to commit to its holding an exclusive gaming license in the New York City area if casino gambling is legalized.

«As New York president of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, I am alarmed by your decision to exclude the Newburgh area, a community that is 80 percent African American and Latino, from participating in the competition for the fourth casino gaming license,» Hazel Dukes wrote in the letter.

Construction is picking back up on the controversial Lago Resort and Casino in Seneca County following the New York State Gaming Commission's decision to license it in December.

«I am sympathetic to the economic struggles of this region,» said Kevin Law, the head of the New York Gaming Commission's Gaming Facility Location Board, a volunteer panel charged with recommending casino plans for licensing.

Rush Street stressed that EB - 5 money is not needed to get the project built: «Rivers Casino & Resort's financing is in place and upon receiving our license from the New York State Gaming Commission we are ready to begin construction on our facility,» the company said in a statement.

Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to reopen the bidding for casino licenses in upstate New York to allow for a Las Vegas - style gaming hall in the state's «economically ailing» Southern Tier.

Earlier today, a siting board for the state's Gaming Commission recommended Lago and two other Upstate casino projects for licenses from New York.

The New York State Gaming Commission has published summaries of the 17 applicants for one of four new casino licenses.