If you want to bet and/or work at Nassau OTB any day of the year, Wayne Wink, is another useless lawyer or worse who has done nothing to see that your rights as a bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, SEc. 3 are not abridged. His possible responses likely include if you don't like a law pay me and I will bring an action.
New York State is the land of lawyers passing laws that don't pass the laugh test. Wink, Wink.
Anyone knows that Nassau OTB can't close on Roman Catholic Easter in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter. Wink Wink. Money. We don't need no stinking money.
Greeks?
Eastern Orthodox.
Julian Calendar
Gregorian Calendar
who the hell cares. certainly not Wayne Wink. He'd rather ... NYC OTB bankrupt be the model for all?
Partner Wayne H. Wink Jr.
Mr. Wink is a graduate of Hofstra
University, where he majored in Political Science, and St. John’s
University School of Law, where he served as Executive Notes &
Comments Editor of the St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary. He was
admitted to the New York Bar in 1997 and to the U.S. District Court for
the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Wink is currently serving as a
Nassau County Legislator, representing the Eleventh District, which
includes the communities of Port Washington, Roslyn, Glenwood Landing,
Albertson, Searingtown, Herricks and Garden City Park. He has also
served as a Councilman in the Town of North Hempstead for over five
years and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at
Hofstra University.
Mr. Wink concentrates in residential and commercial real estate transactions, mortgage closings, land use and zoning, as well as banking and civil litigation. He is also experienced in commercial and securities litigation. Mr. Wink is a member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations. In addition, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Long Island Traditions, a member of the Government Services Advisory Board of the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation, the Kiwanis Club of Port Washington (Past President) and the Great Neck-Port Washington Elks Lodge, No. 1543.
Mr. Wink concentrates in residential and commercial real estate transactions, mortgage closings, land use and zoning, as well as banking and civil litigation. He is also experienced in commercial and securities litigation. Mr. Wink is a member of the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations. In addition, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Long Island Traditions, a member of the Government Services Advisory Board of the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation, the Kiwanis Club of Port Washington (Past President) and the Great Neck-Port Washington Elks Lodge, No. 1543.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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