Nassau OTB cashes Lottery tickets
Nassau OTB must be open to do same
and this guy thinks he is a lawyer? NY State as competent as the USSR?
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Lottery-director-cashes-out-3758723.php
Lottery director cashes out
Gordon Medenica leaves position after five years
By James M. Odato
Updated 11:53 pm, Thursday, August 2, 2012
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Michael Vice, of Ticonderoga, center, smiles and holds the supersized check as he meets with the media with lottery spokesperson Yolanda Vega, left, and the Director of the New York Lottery, Gordon Medenica, right, on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at New York Lottery Headquarters in Schenectady, NY. The lottery held the press conference to present Vice, who won the "Set for Life" instant game at C&G Petroleum In his hometown of Ticonderoga that guarantees him a minimum of a $5,000,000 jackpot. Vice will receive 20 annual payments to total the $5 million, and if he lives past the 20 years he will net a check of $171,678 for each additional year he survives. The 46 year old is the first in Essex County to win a Lottery Jackpot in 2010. (Luanne M. Ferris / Times Union)
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SCHENECTADY — After five years leading the state Lottery, Gordon Medenica leaves Friday.
His resignation to Director of Operations Howard Glaser, submitted July 25, was accepted and the Cuomo administration is moving Rob Williams, a longtime government racing lawyer, into the vacancy on an interim basis.
As acting director, Williams will work with the state Racing & Wagering Board on a merger to be completed in February.
Medenica was unavailable for comment. He was brought to the job of director of the nation's largest lottery by Gov. Eliot Spitzer in 2007.
Medenica also resigned from the Franchise Oversight Board. Williams will take Medenica's seat on that body, which oversees the New York Racing Association.
"The change is a part of the governor's effort to improve and reform the way the state regulates gaming," said Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Williams has worked for many years for the Racing & Wagering Board but has been part of Cuomo's executive chamber staff more recently, dealing with Native American relations as well as gaming and racing law matters.
Lottery's activities include marketing and collecting revenues from an array of games such as Quick Draw, Mega Million and Powerball as well as proceeds from nine video lottery terminal racinos statewide. The division keeps little of the money, with most going back to prize winners, aid to public education and commissions to lottery agents.
In the fiscal year that ended March 31, the division reported $8.4 billion in revenues, allowing it to remain North America's largest and most profitable lottery, contributing nearly $2.9 billion in school aid, or about 15 percent of total state education funding for school districts.
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His resignation to Director of Operations Howard Glaser, submitted July 25, was accepted and the Cuomo administration is moving Rob Williams, a longtime government racing lawyer, into the vacancy on an interim basis.
As acting director, Williams will work with the state Racing & Wagering Board on a merger to be completed in February.
Medenica was unavailable for comment. He was brought to the job of director of the nation's largest lottery by Gov. Eliot Spitzer in 2007.
Medenica also resigned from the Franchise Oversight Board. Williams will take Medenica's seat on that body, which oversees the New York Racing Association.
"The change is a part of the governor's effort to improve and reform the way the state regulates gaming," said Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Williams has worked for many years for the Racing & Wagering Board but has been part of Cuomo's executive chamber staff more recently, dealing with Native American relations as well as gaming and racing law matters.
Lottery's activities include marketing and collecting revenues from an array of games such as Quick Draw, Mega Million and Powerball as well as proceeds from nine video lottery terminal racinos statewide. The division keeps little of the money, with most going back to prize winners, aid to public education and commissions to lottery agents.
In the fiscal year that ended March 31, the division reported $8.4 billion in revenues, allowing it to remain North America's largest and most profitable lottery, contributing nearly $2.9 billion in school aid, or about 15 percent of total state education funding for school districts.
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