So Much for the Battle 

It would appear that former Governor Bob Riley has finally been vindicated and that he is triumphant over the slot machine industry in the state of Alabama. Current governor Robert Bentley has seen to it that the matter of the slot machines was handled fairly and they are in the process of having all of the slot machines removed from the state. According to Deputy Attorney General Sonny Reagan, the manufacturers were offered a deal that they just could not refuse. 

The state told the slot machine manufacturers in no uncertain terms that the electronic bingo machines were illegal in the state as they came under the heading of illegal slot machines. So they gave them sixty days to remove their slot machines from the state and after that they would be confiscating them. They had already taken slot machines from GreeneTrack and although Victoryland owner Milton McGregor had shut down his machines in an attempt to keep them, the manufacturers of those slot machines will be coming to take them back.  

They said that they would have liked to have seen the written agreement that the state and the slot machine companies came to, and that they wanted to see them go to court to settle it once and for all. They said that the Native Americans are the only ones running these slot machines now, and that they are the same kind that they are insisting be removed from other locations. The AG said that they are working to remove those same slot machines from the tribal land as well.