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Boyd Accused of Funding Anti-Tribal Casino Campaign10 May 2002NEW BUFFALO, Michigan — As reported by the Michigan City Newstand: "About 100 backers of a proposed Pokagon `Four Winds' casino in New Buffalo Township gathered at the planned complex site Tuesday evening to get a collective morale boost, while calling on Taxpayers of Michigan Against Casinos `to stop their heavy-handed tactics to block development of the casino.' "Pokagon Band Acting Chairman Mike Zimmerman, New Buffalo Township Clerk Judy Zabicki and Marketing Resource Group President Tom Shields, representing the Pokagon's Lansing-based public relations firm, took turns at the podium lambasting TOMAC while calling on the private group to open its financial books, amid allegations that Kevin Flynn, a former owner of the nearby Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, is working with TOMAC and Blue Chip to prevent the Pokagon casino's construction. "Blue Chip's operator, Boyd Gaming, was called upon to drop its contractual agreement with Flynn. Under the agreement, according to Shields, `Boyd is paying Flynn $5 million to stop any casino from competing with Blue Chip.' "Flynn`was denied a gaming license in Illinois last fall for his connection to organized crime,' Shields claimed in a news release provided to the media at Tuesday's rally — a passionate gathering that came as supporters prepared to travel in two charter buses to a federal court hearing Friday in Washington, D.C…" |