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by spgadmin

The federal government has awarded $54 million to Connecticut’s politically well-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which operates one of the highest grossing casinos in the U.S.

The Mohegan tribe, which owns the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn., has been awarded a $54 million loan from federal stimulus funds. The tribe runs the sprawling Mohegan Sun casino, halfway between New York City and Boston, which earned more than $1.3 billion in gross revenues in 2009.

With federal, state and local government budgets all in dire straits, it is stunning that taxpayers dollars, intended to act as a economic stimulus, were awarded to a casino tribe who run a business based on milking existing wealth rather than creating new wealth.