Developer Fighting Slot Machine Monopoly

Frank Parlato is bound and determined to have some slot machine revenue in his pocket. He doesn’t think that the tribes should be able to get all of the slot machine revenue for themselves and that it needed to be spread around a little.

He says that Senecas should not be the only ones running slot machines on their side of Niagara Falls. Parlato is going to run his own casino – but it will be illegal. He said that “based on ethnicity, a Seneca can open up a casino, an American may not.”

He says that even if he gets arrested, he won’t stop. He held a public hearing in the old Occidental Chemical Center, and says that he is going to open the casino next door. He says that everyone should be on a level playing field, even Native Americans. Perhaps he is not aware that the reason they are allowed to run casinos is because we took their land and killed them off – hence the lack of an equal playing field.

He is also upset that they didn’t have to comply with New York State building code – something a lot of people agree on. They also think that the tribe should be paying taxes on their slot machine proceeds. They say that they are making millions of dollars and none of it is going to the state, which they say just isn’t fair.
 

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