\u201cunfair playing field.\u201d<\/a> The tribal operator has ceased making revenue-share payments of some $100 million per year to the state because it claims that its 2002 compact, which rolled over in 2016, no longer requires it to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe state disputes this, declaring the Senecas to be in violation of their compact and has delivered a demand for legally binding arbitration.<\/p>\n
But in the meantime, Del Lago, which pays 37 percent tax on gross revenues from slots and 10 percent on all other sources, claims the Senacas have used the spare money to offer incentives to gamblers \u2013 an accusation the tribe denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thomas Wilmot, the owner of the struggling Del Lago Resort and Casino in upstate New York, was in Albany last week to meet with Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s budget division. The shopping mall magnate did not divulge the nature of his business in the state capital, but local media has speculated that the timing of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":81225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Troubled Del Lago Resort Makes Fresh Plea for State Help<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n