The long and winding road that leads to an Everett casino for Steve Wynn is getting nearer to the finish line: the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s madly demanding investigative bureau has finally provided the go-ahead from the suitability point of view for the casino mogul to open his first-ever Bay State property.

Cleared for Takeoff

The recommendation was made early last week during a commission meeting, and followed a four-member sign-off on a revised deal for the planned casino a few times earlier in the day.

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Needless to state, Steve Wynn has to be breathing a sigh of relief. With his usual colorful and wording that is cut-to-the-chase he summed up his feelings on having made it this far and being this close to the end of the regulatory hurdles entirely.

‘ This is a investment that is big us here in Boston,’ Wynn noted. ‘This is not a box of slots. This is a ‘wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am’ fancy hotel.’

Of course, there is no free meal with this commission; an organization that has became finicky up to a degree that has driven all the proposed casinos’ executives to distraction. The Commission’s Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement is still demanding that some conditions be met, such as showing the outfit that Wynn’s interactions in his Macau casinos fall suitably within what the BIE considers ‘responsible business methods. to that end’

Ensuing Doings

Wynn has hardly been the subject that is only of scrutiny by the Commission; nor has it all been going in one direction. Caesars Entertainment who ended up being essentially rejected as an appropriate company partner for Suffolk Downs’ East-Boston-now-Revere casino project recently filed a lawsuit against the Commission’s Chairman, Stephen Crosby, claiming that Crosby had failed to adequately reveal a potential conflict of interest relating to Wynn. Crosby had a business that is prior with a part owner of the land on which Everett is to be built a former Mansanto chemical plant which could at the very least give the appearance of some favoritism being shown to Wynn’s casino project there.

Caesars stated an absence of ‘objectivity and fairness’on Crosby’s part in the matter, even going to date as to imply that Crosby intentionally wanted to derail Suffolk Downs’ casino application. Caesars via that Suffolk Downs partnership, which is now dissolved was at the running for the exact same eastern Massachusetts casino license as competitor Wynn. Suffolk Downs has since regrouped and it is now intending for a Revere casino with brand new partner Mohegan Sun.

But Crosby hasn’t taken any of these allegations lying down, and records he doesn’t intend to recuse himself from voting on the Wynn casino project. In fact, the process is said by him to date has indeed been ‘incredibly transparent.’

And for his part, Wynn is backing up Crosby, saying the commissioner’s reputation and actions to date have been ‘unblemished.’

‘I think reasonable and people that are reasonable see that and realize that i have fulfilled my responsibilities of disclosure,’ Crosby added.

Wynn also fired straight back at Caesars, with an ‘I’m-nicer-than-you-are’-style retort. The casino magnate noted that he raised no protests to your commission vis-à-vis its Suffolk that is allowing Downs now move forward with their Revere-only casino plans after being rejected by East Boston voters in November.

Unsavory Shadows Hang Over Everett Land Deal

Yes, he’s now received approval that is regulatory the Massachusetts Commission, but is everything really on the up-and-up with Wynn’s Everett land deal? Not according to convicted felon Charles Lightbody, who claims he is making cash on Wynn’s land purchase, one way or another, even though Commission sees things differently.

Lightbody even bragged to a mob that is still-incarcerated friend about it on tape.

‘It’s gonna be considered a home that is real if we are able to get the licenses through,’ Lightbody told Daren Bufalino, that is in state prison, doing time for attempted extortion and conspiracy. ‘ You’ll own half the [expletive] city,’ Lightbody told Bufalino in Aug. 2012, implying that the convict may benefit also.

Lightbody ended up being referring to Wynn’s deal with the Everett land owners to fork over $75 million for his Massachusetts casino project, on spec.

In a reaction to that, the Commission unanimously approved a revised submitted land deal plan from Wynn, which lowered the parcel that is 29-acre cost down to $35 million, essentially eliminating the risk of Lightbody benefitting from the land deal. Although Lightbody’s title had never ever shown up on any documents, he was reportedly element of that original sellers group a group who paid just $8 million four years ago for the same parcel.

Wynn had to swear towards the Commission that solely the owners that are principal make any profits from the deal under the revised contract.

Lightbody’s taped jail conversations with Bufalino were subpoenaed by the commission detectives. If he gets squeezed out or not in them, the ex-felon makes clear he intends to profit from the land deal, no matter. Lightbody also indicated in the conversation that he knew how to full cover up his part-ownership from any scrutiny that is regulatory. Moreover, two regarding the Everett property owners say Lightbody bought an option on a nearby strip club, an alternative which he will exercise should the casino come to fruition.

‘The other thing around the corner that goes with a casino I own,’ Lightbody is heard telling Bufalino during one of their exchanges.’It’s the smartest thing you could have with a casino. There’s only two things, women and booze, right across the corner. [Expletive] locked it. Locked up tight as a drum.’

The commission investigators determined that Bufalino had, in fact, received prison canteen money from Lightbody, and that the two men were friends during the course of their investigations.

With Board Chairman Stephen Crosby recused due to his conflict of interest, the sleep of the Massachusetts Commission offered a thumbs-up to the revised land contract, despite investigators discovering that the selling principals had maybe not disclosed Lightbody’s original 12.5 percent ownership share, and had even falsified documents so before he actually had that it appeared the ex-con had exited from the deal.