Gaming director files claim to dig into land purchase for casino

Daniel Bergin
Daniel Bergin

By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/YourWestValley.com

Arizona’s gaming director wants a court order allowing him to pry into the decision by the Tohono O’odham Nation to buy land for a casino near Glendale.

And the tribe is trying to block the move.

In legal papers filed in federal court here, attorneys for Daniel Bergin say he needs notes from closed-door tribal meetings going back to 2002 to support his claim that the nation defrauded the state by hiding its plans for full-blown casino gaming. He said those will buttress his claim that tribal officials acted in a way that shows they are unfit to operate a new casino.

But Bergin wants more.

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