More Casinos for Mashantuckets-MGM Mirage Team

CONNECTICUT As reported by the Rhode Island Providence Journal: “A memorandum of understanding signed this spring by the Mashantucket Pequots and MGM Mirage, the publicly traded gaming colossus, lays out a plan for possibly more casinos in southeastern Connecticut, elsewhere in Indian Country, in Atlantic City or on the Las Vegas strip.

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Tue, August 29th, 2006

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