Two key leaders out at Mass. casino board
Two high-profile members of the embattled Massachusetts Gaming Commission are resigning, the commission announced today.
Commissioner James McHugh and Executive Director Rick Day are “moving on to the next phase of their lives,’’ MGC Chairman Steve Crosby said in a memo posted on MGC’s website.
McHugh’s last day is September 30. Day’s role will effectively end at the end of this week. Next week, he will go on a “previously scheduled vacation,’’ the memo said. After his vacation, he’ll stay on with the MGC as a consultant.
Day said in the memo that his consulting role would last “as long as my services are required.’’
His future work for the commission will apparently be remote; he said he would be moving back to Montana, where he began his career as a police officer. Day was appointed executive director of the MGC in February 2013.
“I am proud of the work accomplished over the last 2.5 years and pleased that the state is now experiencing the benefits of jobs and revenue currently being derived from the new gaming industry,’’ Day said.
McHugh, who was appointed to the commission in March 2012, called his time on the MGC a “remarkable journey’’ and said he felt now was the right time to retire. The former Appeals Court judge had come out of retirement to serve on the commission.
Last year, McHugh was the only board member to vote for Mohegan Sun to get the Greater Boston area’s only casino permit over Wynn Resorts, which was awarded the license to build in Everett. Boston, along with Revere and Somerville, responded by filing civil lawsuits against the commission, asking, essentially, for a do-over in the Greater Boston casino license decision.
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