A must-read piece by nationally acclaimed investigative journalist David Cay Johnston. Read the whole piece here.
An excerpt: “After decades of resisting easy-money promises by gambling moguls, New York State and City plan to license casinos in Midtown Manhattan, Coney Island and near Citi Field in Queens. Promoters and politicians alike promise a cornucopia of jobs and new tax revenues, but even more certain is what they dare not admit: more corruption. Indeed, the last great wave of legal American gambling ended more than a century ago in a corruption scandal run out of Manhattan.