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State budget would require audits of NUMC, Nassau IDA and OTB
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.
The state budget would require audits of the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.
ALBANY — The state budget scheduled to be approved Friday includes a measure that would require audits of the Nassau University Medical Center, the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and the Off-Track Betting Corp., which have long been subjects of partisan battles.
The measure is called the Nassau County Transparency and Accountability Act of 2022. It will continue a clash between Long Island Democrats in the Senate and Assembly against the NUMC, the IDA and OTB, which historically had been controlled by Republicans and now under County Executive Bruce Blakeman.
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