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Chairman Of Massachusetts Gambling Commission Under Investigation

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published June 10, 2015 at 8:48 AM EDT

The chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission confirms he is under investigation by state ethics officials.

Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby told the Boston Globe he is cooperating with the investigation and has done nothing wrong.

The newspaper said the state ethics commission received a sworn statement alleging Crosby participated in the process to award a casino license in the greater Boston area despite publicly recusing himself because of personal ties with a casino landowner.

Former Massachusetts Inspector General Greg Sullivan said state law holds the gaming commissioners to very high ethical standards.

"Chairman Crosby ignored those rules," he said.

The city of Boston has sued the gaming commission over the awarding of the casino license to Wynn Resorts in Everett.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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