Casino Riverboats Politically Connected

BATON ROUGE, Los Angeles. (AP) _ The state’s fledgling playing sector is actually a prize for friends of Gov. Edwin Edwards.

– The governor’s past laws spouse, William Broadhurst, offers a $350,000 acquire with Casino The usa, whose mom company is the owner of half of a Bossier urban area riverboat.

– Edwards’ kid Stephen stall to earn over to $132,000 in legal fees from the Atlantic City-based funds playing International, and that is adding a speed boat in brand-new Orleans.

– Stephen’s father-in-law, Fred Lieux, will earn $2 million in a great deal with a riverboat casino.

Overall, seven regarding the state’s 11 trained riverboat casinos are actually connected to Edwards’ family members or constitutional and monetary backers.

Both Edwards and his awesome kid actually have appeared before a state grand panel examining Louisiana’s gambling market. (more…)