\nWe believe we’re going to win in Japan,” Murren told shareholders Wednesday. He added that the company is focused on Osaka, one of the three prefectures that has publicly expressed support for welcoming an IR.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
“We just recently opened up an office in Osaka,” Murren explained. “We’ve committed to the mayor and to the governor of Osaka that MGM has adopted an Osaka-first strategy. We are focusing our considerable resources on Osaka.”<\/p>\n
So is Sands, the casino empire of billionaire Sheldon Adelson \u2013 the man thought to be behind the DOJ’s Wire Act reversal. A longtime proponent of banning online gambling, the tycoon and one of President Donald Trump’s largest donors is presumed to have gotten his way with the 2018 opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren told investors and analysts during the company’s Q4 and full-year 2018 earnings call that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) reversal of opinion on the Wire Act is “perplexing.” Union Gaming analyst John DeCree asked the chief executive to weigh in on the DOJ’s November decision that the Wire Act not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":98331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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