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Casinos Get $100M License Reprieves

HARRISBURG, PA-Sugarhouse and Foxwoods gets a break from their $50 million license fees, due to postponements that might constitute "hardship."

By Sean Ryan | Updated on July 27, 2007

HARRISBURG, PA-The pair of one-time $50 million licensing fees that Sugarhouse Casino and Foxwoods Casino needed to pay has been postponed. In a special meeting held Thursday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board had given the two developers extra time to argue that it is suffering “hardship”–at which time they might be given even more time to pay.

“They got what we call a stay,’ Richard McGarvey, of the PGCB, tells GlobeSt.com. “Basically, the board felt they didn’t have enough information to make this particular decision. So they told Foxwoods and Sugarhouse to file a legal brief with us by October 27th. There’s going to be a public board meeting on September 6th, for them to argue their case and say why they should not have to pay the $50 million for a period of time.”

Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the PGCB’s award of the slots parlors to Sugarhouse and Foxwoods. “Here at the Gaming Board, we had said once those decisions came out, they needed to pay the $50 million,” McGarvey says. The postponement came on day nine of that deadline. “I think that’s why the Board did what it did. There wasn’t a lot of time to look at the legal reasons behind the petitions, so that’s why they stayed the $50 million.”

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