Sentences with phrase «of video lottery»

Bill selected Lloyd Levenson, a highly skilled business lawyer, who began by supporting the commercial contract work of the video lottery team.

Genting, based in Malaysia, already operates gambling at the race track in the form of video lottery terminals, slot like machines that are an extension of the state's lottery contests.

Additionally, the Governor today announced that the State will be working with Empire Resorts, Inc. to develop a plan for an approximately $ 100 million dollar expansion of its video lottery facility at Monticello Raceway.

«While I do not believe that establishing gambling venues is a panacea, creating a limited number of Video Lottery Terminals in Ulster County will provide for significant job creation and greatly enhance the attractiveness of existing resort destinations,» Cahill said in a statement.

Gural recently said he wants to cut the number of video lottery terminal or VLT machines at Vernon Downs from 750 to 550 to free up more space while boosting the facility's catering business.

• SL Green did not agree to provide interim funding to support New York Racing Association (NYRA) operations until the opening of the video lottery casino.

And despite opposition from anti-gambling advocates, the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce and Donald Trump, a confluence of events in 2001 led to the legislature's approval of Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs) at race tracks in New York.

Money for the public matching fund will come from a portion of the county's proceeds of video lottery terminals at Off - Track Betting parlors.

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When New York floated the idea of expanding its Quick Draw video lottery, Kindt noted that «every dollar that is dropped into gambling is a dollar that is lost to the consumer economy.»

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The Senate MajDemocrats just issued a press release announcing they are supporting the state Lottery Division's recommendation of Genting NY to operate Video Lottery Terminals at Aqueduct in Queens.

Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer has reached out to town political leaders for resumes to fill jobs at the new video lottery casino in Islandia, prompting concern that the gambling hall will become a source of political patronage.

I do not believe that bailing out this casino with people's hard - earned tax dollars is the appropriate way to go about addressing this issue, especially given the fact that there are other gaming facilities with video lottery terminals who continue to struggle as a result of casino decisions and have not received the same level of support now being requested.

And following a recent agreement between Genting Group, the parent company of Resorts World New York, which is located on Aqueduct grounds, and Nassau County Off - Track Betting, the casino is set to get 1,000 new video lottery terminals, bringing the facility's gaming capacity to approximately 6,000 VLTs.

Brett Houdek, president of the Medford Taxpayers and Civic Association, which had sued to stop a previous video lottery casino in Medford, called Schaffer's outreach an example of «the old - school «OTB will provide jobs for politically connected people.»

A new report finds that growth has been at the expense of other already existing gambling businesses like video lottery terminal casinos.

Suffolk County OTB's 6 - month - old video lottery betting parlor at Jake's 58 Hotel & Casino in Islandia continued its run as one of the state's most successful this summer after adding 273 terminals in late May.

AEG was the only firm to revise the amount of its bid, going from lowest to highest in the projected amount of revenue it would raise through video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

[Transportation Alternatives] A law firm hired by Gov. David Paterson to help expedite the Aqueduct Racetrack Video Lottery Terminal project has ties to one of the bidders.

The state, which licenses Tioga's racing and video lottery terminals, takes 37 percent of the profits.

The probers believe he may have secured a copy of the document — detailing proposals by competing bidders — before his client made key improvements to its winning bid to run the video lottery parlor, sources said.

Video lottery facilities like Vernon Downs pay 10 percent of their pre-tax gambling revenue to the state Gaming Commission to cover administrative costs.

The session was high stakes for Jeff Gural, owner of Vernon Downs harness track and video lottery «racino» in Oneida County.

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Everything is now on the table, from video lotteries to red - light cameras, and possibly even a higher sales tax could be employed to pull Suffolk out of its massive hole.

• SL Green wanted the right to sublease any portion of the Aqueduct video lottery casino to any affiliate without the State's consent, on terms defined by SL Green.

• SL Green wanted compensation for any video lottery facility granted «more favorable tax treatment» within 50 miles of Aqueduct.

Racinos, which operate only out of the state's racetracks, include electronic video lottery terminals, not table - top gambling and other forms of gaming found in Vegas - style casinos.

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Fearing what could be a 40 percent reduction to video lottery terminal business in the racino at their track, a group of horsemen based at the Finger Lakes Racetrack in Ontario County are calling for the proposed Lago casino to make up some of the difference in order to support the thoroughbred racing there.

In an accounting of NYRA's financial condition for the first half of 2015 prepared for today's board meeting in Saratoga Springs, the association reported an operating loss from racing operations of $ 6.1 million before income from video lottery terminals are factored in — a loss that's 25.5 percent larger than the $ 4.9 million operating deficit for racing racked up during the same period in 2014.

With 1,000 new video lottery terminals coming to the Resorts World racino at Aqueduct in Queens, supporters of thoroughbred racing are worried that the new devices could eventually detract from the money that the VLT parlor gives to the state's race tracks.

Dozens of trade union workers and Suffolk Off - Track Betting employees stormed out last night of a Medford community rally against building a $ 65 million video lottery gaming establishment.

The operators of a western New York racetrack and video lottery terminal racino are suing the state over a siting board's recommendation that a full - scale casino license be granted to developers of the proposed Lago project.

Suffolk OTB has all but dropped plans to build a video lottery mini-casino in Medford because of «obstructive behavior» by Brookhaven Town officials.

The contract between Resorts World's video lottery terminal racino at the Aqueduct race track in Queens and the financially strapped Nassau County OTB has been signed and they hope to have almost 500 of what will be 1,000 machines up and running in the next six months.

Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer has reached out to town political leaders for resumes to fill jobs at the new video lottery casino in Islandia, prompting concern that the gambling hall will become a new source of political patronage.

But Sunday's tragic massacre of 58 concertgoers by gunman Stephen Paddock could prompt a reassessment of procedures and even state regulations regarding security measures at New York's three new casinos, including Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady, as well as the state's older racinos offering harness racing and video lottery machines.

YONKERS - In the face of New York State's $ 15 billion budget gap, Senator and Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), joined by Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins (D - Yonkers), and the Director of the NYS Lottery, will propose the expansion of gaming options at the New York State's existing video lottery terminals (VLTs) and electronic gaming tables as a way to generate a projected $ 145 million in education fLottery, will propose the expansion of gaming options at the New York State's existing video lottery terminals (VLTs) and electronic gaming tables as a way to generate a projected $ 145 million in education flottery terminals (VLTs) and electronic gaming tables as a way to generate a projected $ 145 million in education funding.

As of the end of September this year, their revenue, including video lottery proceeds, were at $ 89.3 million, or 2 percent above the same period the year before.

State Sen. John Sampson (D - Brooklyn), the Democratic leader of the Senate, acknowledged sending a memo to a former colleague - turned - lobbyist representing Aqueduct Entertainment Group that led to AEG changing the terms of its bid for the video lottery terminal contract at Aqueduct.

The casino's first 265 video lottery terminals opened at 1 p.m., just hours after the state Gaming Commission issued a certificate allowing the facility to open at Jake's 58 Hotel & Casino, on the north service road of the Long Island Expressway.

In 2013, the owners of the Pine Grove Ranch and the Hudson Valley Spa and Resort, both in Kerhonkson, asked Ulster County lawmakers to adopt a resolution calling on the state to allow video lottery terminals at the two resorts.

Hundreds of gamblers crowded into an Islandia hotel Monday to play electronic slot machine games and sip drinks as Suffolk OTB opened Long Island's first video lottery casino.

The casino has only 265 video lottery terminals, but 34 machines will be added in March, and a total of 1,000 will be at the site by summer, casino officials said.

WAWARSING >> A plan has emerged to turn the former Nevele Hotel into a state - of - the - art «Sportsplex» that would include video lottery terminals.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — David O'Halloran, who resigned last week as vice chairman of the Ulster County Republican Party, said the lack of GOP support for his plan to bring video lottery terminals to his Kerhonkson resort shows the party is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's economy.

On Wednesday, O'Halloran said video lottery terminals are essential to the continued success of the Pinegrove and Hudson Valley Resort and the revitalization of the region.

KINGSTON >> The owners of two Ulster County resorts are renewing their appeal to the county Legislature to support state legislation that would allow video lottery terminals at their hotels.

Asking for 750 video lottery terminals at former resort, supplemented by top - of - the - line athletics and sports fields