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Pennsylvania Gambling Regulators Under Microscope
HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA --
Gambling has been a great boon in the state of Pennsylvania, creating jobs, saving race tracks, and generating revenue. But some residents are questioning whether the regulators on the state Gaming Control Board have applied too many gambling benefits to themselves.
State lawmakers are considering complaints that the board is too close to the industry it nominally controls. New laws are being debated which would require regulators to wait a period of two years or more before taking employment from gambling operations or casinos.
Citizens are up in arms after it was disclosed that five board employees attended a Rome gaming conference at the hefty price of $33,500 for taxpayers. And rumors of secretive dealings, undisclosed by current state law, involve officials taking turns vetoing rulings against casinos and gambling interests.
Governor Ed Rendell has been a staunch supporter of gambling as a source of state revenue. And legislators are concerned with bringing new casinos in the Philadelphia area up and running.
But protests about shady dealing have forced lawmakers to address the voters' concerns.
"We hear them and we'll take a look at it," said Representative Dante Santoni, the head of the House Gaming Oversight Committee.
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