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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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A New York judge has ordered Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office to turn over to The New York Times documents related to a corruption investigation of former state officials and upstate contractors that it has withheld for the last year.
The decision, issued last week but filed with the Albany County Clerk’s office on Thursday, compels the governor’s office to release, within 45 days, schedules, email and other records requested by The Times under New York’s Freedom of Information law. The Cuomo administration had fought to keep the documents secret on multiple grounds, including that disclosing them might compromise the criminal investigation.
“The chamber has failed to establish how disclosure would interfere with law enforcement investigations or judicial proceedings,” Justice Patrick J. McGrath of State Supreme Court in Albany County wrote of the governor’s office in his decision, which also denied the government’s claims that such disclosures might adversely affect the reputations of people named in the records.
Justice McGrath cited the text of the state’s Freedom of Information statute, or FOIL, in determining that the government’s arguments fell short of what was needed to deny information to the public. “The legislative declaration section of FOIL announces New York’s public policy that finds that ‘a free society is maintained when government is responsive and responsible to the public, and when the public is aware of governmental actions,’” he wrote.
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The Times sought a wide-ranging group of records after reports emerged about an investigation into two former aides of Mr. Cuomo: Joseph Percoco, whom the governor has called a “brother,” and Todd R. Howe, a lobbyist who has long been connected to the Cuomo family.
The inquiry yielded a series of indictmentsbrought by the former United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, involving accusations of bid-rigging and other crimes as part of the so-called Buffalo Billionproject, a multiyear plan introduced by the governor in 2013 to re-energize the long-suffering city in western New York. Prosecutors have said Mr. Howe is cooperating with them, and the case against Mr. Percoco and several other defendants is expected to go to trial as soon as this fall.
The governor’s office did not say whether it would appeal the ruling. “We are reviewing the decision and evaluating our next steps,” Lauren Grasso, the state’s Freedom of Information law counsel said in an email.
David McCraw, deputy general counsel for The Times, said the newspaper appreciated “Justice McGrath’s careful and thorough legal analysis,” and “his conclusion that the governor had failed to show why these important documents should be kept secret.”
He added: “This is a victory for the people of New York, who have a right to a transparent government that is accountable to the public.”
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