Documents reveal true backers of drive for a 2nd slots parlor
The $3.2 million campaign to open a second slots parlor in Massachusetts has been secretly financed by a team of developers who brought gambling to Maine and whose casino in Laos was seized by the government last year amid corruption allegations, new campaign finance documents show.
The documents not only show new spending on the ballot measure by the casino developers, but also revise an earlier filing to show that they have been funding the campaign since its earliest days, contradicting claims by the measure’s chief promoter.
The revised filing reports that much of the financing came from Bridge Capital LLC. The referendum campaign had originally said its financing was from a Delaware company called Capital Productions LLC.
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