The Senecas stopped casino
slot revenue payments to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Salamanca in 2009 saying the state broke its casino gaming compact with the Nation because it has allowed video lottery terminals at nearby racetracks.
Not exact matches
Nassau Regional Off - Track Betting Corp. has missed a $ 3 million
payment on a short - term note to a Manhattan investment bank as it awaits
revenue from a deal transferring its authority to install 1,000 video
slot machines to Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.
After the latest controversy, Cuomo's aides ordered the state Lottery Division to withhold
slot machine
payments earned at Aqueduct race track, worth about $ 3 million dollars a month, starving the financially shaky NYRA from a vital source of
revenue.
The
payment, which county officials said was due March 31, comes from
revenue from video
slot machines at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The
revenue - sharing agreements, signing separately with each tribes as they opened their casinos in the 1990s, guarantee the
payments to the state in exchange for the right to be the sole operators of video
slot machines.
Additionally, all conditions imposed by the State Legislature under the authorizing legislation for up to three Indian casinos in the Catskills (Chapter 383 of the Laws of 2001), including the
payment of 25 percent of
slot revenue to the State, have already been agreed to by the Tribe.
Back - tax
payments from the Nation's casinos and a share of their annual
slot machine
revenue has helped Oneida County collect more than $ 60 million in three years.
The Senecas and the state are in arbitration over the $ 572 million in
revenue sharing
payments being withheld because the Senecas say the state violated the compact by allowing
slot machines at racetracks.