while andrew may want to ride the harley southbound. the beef, pork and wandering dago food truck are right in here in new york not to mention that cynthia nixon and andrew cuomo apparently agree that andrew decides when nassau otb closes, ny pml sec 109 violates rights of nassau otb bettors secured by ny const art 1 sec 3
Al D’Amato’s fingerprints all over
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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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It looks like Al D’Amato has conflicts of interest with at least three of the candidates for governor.
Although he’s a Republican, the former US Senator is personally supporting Democrat Andrew Cuomofor re-election. But his lobbying firm, Park Strategies, is running the campaign for the leading GOP candidate, Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive.
A third candidate, former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra , who is seeking the Reform Party nomination, is an ex-Park Strategies executive.
“That’s a trifecta of conflicts,” one Albany veteran told me. “He has his finger in every pie.”
The 80-year-old power broker is embroiled in a drama with his second wife, Katuria, who is fighting him in Mineola, LI, divorce court over custody of their two children, Luciana, 8, and Alfonso, 10,
D’Amato, once known as “Senator Pothole,” was granted custody in September after Katuria was taken away from their Lido Beach home in an ambulance.
But Katuria, 51, testified last month that he’d been abusive. “He calls me the F-word, he calls me the C-word,” she said.
Park Strategies, which was founded by D’Amato, is said to have lost a number of people in recent weeks. “I am aware of six people who have left,” said my source.
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