having had the privilege of watching one of these lucrative project unfold up close, I can tell that McCain is on the right track. It's about the developers, the non-Indian developers ...they know that Indian Country is the perfect place to launder money and other things.
Tuesday, August 9, 2005 - Updated: 09:02 AM EST
A Capitol Hill backlash against tribal gambling threatens to torpedo the national expansion of Connecticut's two giant Indian casinos, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun.
And the budding congressional crackdown on Indian gambling could all but doom the already fading hopes of the Martha's Vineyard-based Wampanoag tribe to open the Bay State's first casino, industry experts say.
Federal lawmakers are taking aim at one particularly controversial aspect of this expansion, the phenomenon of ``reservation shopping,'' where casino-hungry tribes go hunting for real estate closer to major urban areas.
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, recently warned that this off-reservation expansion could trigger a ``backlash'' against Indian gaming. Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolfe (R-Va.) has proposed a moratorium on all ``off-reservation'' tribal gambling proposals.
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http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=97203
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