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In reply to the discussion: Christie Crime Digest-Vol. I [View all]rocktivity
(44,576 posts)298. ...After Illinois declared the first privately run U.S. state lottery a failure
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New Jerseys similar experiment is faltering...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-24/n-j-lottery-missing-christie-goals-with-private-operator.html
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, a Democrat defeated this month by Republican Bruce Rauner...ended a contract seven years early with Northstar Lottery Group LLC because of serious concerns. Northstar...missed revenue targets for three straight years...
While it fell $1.6 million short of the fiscal 2014 goal, (Northstar partner company) Gtech delivered record revenue of more than $1 billion...(to) Indiana...which it signed to a 15-year contract in 2012.
(Northstar) pledged to outdo (New Jersey) governments performance estimates by at least $1.42 billion over the life of the contract ...(Their) administration costs for the year ended June 30 were $50.3 million...a 45 percent increase from the $34.7 million under state control a year earlier...
Northstar took control Oct. 1, 2013...On Jan. 17, the treasury approved Northstars request for a downward adjustment to the income target as the result of Superstorm Sandy, according to a contract amendment. That storm struck 11 months before Northstar took over the lottery...For fiscal 2013, the last year under full state control, the lottery had ticket sales of $2.82 billion...the sixth-straight year of higher contributions... Patrick Diegnan, a...Democrat...who sponsored a bill vetoed by Christie that would have made lottery privatization subject to legislative approval...said...It doesnt make any sense...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-24/n-j-lottery-missing-christie-goals-with-private-operator.html
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, a Democrat defeated this month by Republican Bruce Rauner...ended a contract seven years early with Northstar Lottery Group LLC because of serious concerns. Northstar...missed revenue targets for three straight years...
While it fell $1.6 million short of the fiscal 2014 goal, (Northstar partner company) Gtech delivered record revenue of more than $1 billion...(to) Indiana...which it signed to a 15-year contract in 2012.
(Northstar) pledged to outdo (New Jersey) governments performance estimates by at least $1.42 billion over the life of the contract ...(Their) administration costs for the year ended June 30 were $50.3 million...a 45 percent increase from the $34.7 million under state control a year earlier...
Northstar took control Oct. 1, 2013...On Jan. 17, the treasury approved Northstars request for a downward adjustment to the income target as the result of Superstorm Sandy, according to a contract amendment. That storm struck 11 months before Northstar took over the lottery...For fiscal 2013, the last year under full state control, the lottery had ticket sales of $2.82 billion...the sixth-straight year of higher contributions... Patrick Diegnan, a...Democrat...who sponsored a bill vetoed by Christie that would have made lottery privatization subject to legislative approval...said...It doesnt make any sense...
Fifteen million that could have gone to the lottery beneficiaries went straight down the drain. And Northstar should have been fired on the spot for that intelligence-insulting Sandy excuse -- why weren't they?
In 2013, Gtech gave $101,800 and (Northstar partner company) Scientific Games gave $76,000...to the Republican Governors Association, where Christie was chairman for a one-year term that ended this month.
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Is it your prediction that Christie will be charged with a crime or crimes?
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Since I believe that it's DOING something criminal that makes you a criminal
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For the record, I think he should be charged and am cautiously optimistic that he will be
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...After Illinois declared the first privately run U.S. state lottery a failure
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