Tribal Recognition Procedure "Disgusting" - 2004-02-17
Liz Bentson in the Las Vegas Sun has reported that Scott Scherer, a member of Nevada’s Gaming Control Board and a “top Nevada casino regulator” has requested for a “review of the federal process by which Indian tribes are recognized and lands are approved for casino development.”
“It's a loophole that investors are exploiting,” he explained, adding that tribes with no possessioon of land are manipulated into purchasing land, gain recognition, and then build casino businesses, with the investors dividing the profits, of course, in a business they themselves would not otherwise have any legal access to.
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