{"id":52762,"date":"2019-03-21T20:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/?p=52762"},"modified":"2019-03-22T06:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T09:20:56","slug":"connecticut-tribal-casino-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/connecticut-tribal-casino-approval","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut tribal casino gets federal approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The federal government has approved a Connecticut tribal casino, which joint venture MMCT will now begin to develop in East Windsor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>US.- After years of fighting the government, the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes have finally won their battle. Construction work will begin at their Connecticut tribal casino in East Windsor after they received federal government\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy that finally we\u2019ve got a decision,\u201d state Senator Cathy Osten, who represents the casino\u2019s district, said. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get out there to cut the ribbon as people pour into Tribal Winds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osten had co-sponsored a bill to let tribal joint venture MMCT open the venue without federal approval. However, she believes it will likely not go up for a vote after recent news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The venue will be developed outside tribal land as it was proposed to counter the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/mgm-springfield-to-open-on-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">MGM Springfield<\/a><\/em><\/strong> over the Massachusetts state border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The struggle<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The development faced <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/east-windsor-casino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"several hurdles (opens in a new tab)\">several hurdles<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. One of the bills under consideration to let the MMCT introduce a casino in East Windsor required both tribes to have a federal compact in place. However, the DoI approved a compact for the Mohegan tribe, but not for the Pequot tribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main issue, however, lied with an investigation launched by the DoI\u2019s Office of the Inspector General, in which former Secretary Zinke may have lied. That\u2019s why prosecutors have begun presenting evidence in Washington to assess whether he should be charged with any crimes related to a potential false testimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has approved a Connecticut tribal casino, which joint venture MMCT will now begin to develop in East Windsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,54,6],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52762"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52814,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52762\/revisions\/52814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}