Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn made a low-key visit to the Hub Monday, taking meetings with legislators, including the rep who authored the state's gaming legislation, and state Gaming Commission investigators, whose probes led him to decry Bay State background checks as heavy-handed.
Wynn met with Ways and Means chairman Brian Dempsey, the Haverhill rep who partly authored the gaming legislation, as well as Sen. Sal DiDomenico of Everett, where Wynn wants to build the $1.4 billion resort. The Sin City titan also was scheduled to speak on the phone with Senate majority leader Stanley Rosenberg of Amherst, another key force in passage of the gaming law, but that conversation did not happen, the Herald has learned.
It was not clear what was discussed, or why Wynn would meet with lawmakers who don't have a dog in the Everett casino fight. Dempsey and Rosenburg did not return calls for comment yesterday. Wynn spokesman Michael Weaver would only characterize the visit as "providing an update of our project to legislators, a discussion about the industry in general and the entry of gaming into the commonwealth."
"You heard Mr. Wynn's comments before the Gaming Commission last time he appeared," Weaver said when asked what Wynn said during the meetings. "It was helping (legislators) understand how the process moves forward."
Wynn has publicly ripped the Gaming Commission as "freshmen" with an "unbelievable preoccupation that maybe a gangster is going to get in." In October, Wynn told the commission he was "scared to death" he'd be vulnerable to sanctions on the basis of "murky" investigations into his Macau operation.
DiDomenico said Wynn stopped by his office unannounced Monday, and stressed what his resort could do for Everett.
"There was nothing I could say I definitely gained from it, other than he was coming to say, 'Hey, we are going to your community and we're going to do good things,'" DiDomenico said. "It was quick. Done, over, see ya later."
Gaming Commission spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said Wynn asked investigators Monday to set up a meeting with the commission. Wynn representatives will appear before the commission next Friday to outline a land ownership plan, and on Dec. 16 to determine if the company is suitable to apply for the sole eastern Massachusetts casino license. A proposal by Suffolk Downs and Mohegan Sun in Revere is also in the running.
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