Sentence examples for video gambling terminals from inspiring English sources

In addition, federal investigators have subpoenaed records from the administration relating to the recent awarding of a lucrative contract for video gambling terminals to a politically connected bidder.

And the governor himself has long proposed using billions of dollars in proceeds from video gambling terminals to satisfy the court's order.

Whatever benefits the new grandstand brings would not cover the price in addiction and broken lives that comes along with those 4,500 video gambling terminals.

In 2004, they reached an agreement to give New Jersey's racetrack operators $86 million over four years to enhance racing purses to try to keep them from installing video gambling terminals.

The casino was to include a 184,000-square-foot gambling floor and 4,500 video gambling terminals as well as restaurants, a hotel and a 60,000-square-foot conference center.

Alderman John Pope (10th Ward) told them he believed that a "large majority" of City Council members would soon join him in voting to lift the ban on gambling in Chicago, placing the city in a state program that will allow as many as five video gambling terminals in any business that has a license to sell liquor for on-site consumption.

The bill approved Wednesday allows Aqueduct, Yonkers and Monticello raceways, as well as some upstate tracks, to install video lottery terminals, similar to video gambling machines in casinos and likely to face the same legal challenges.

Officials originally said video gambling, which lawmakers legalized last year, would begin by the end of the year.

Governor Pataki said that his office conservatively estimated that the video lottery terminals that had already been approved would raise $1.5 billion a year, and that with his proposal to add even more video gambling parlors the revenue would rise even higher.

The video gambling revenues will be taxed at 30 percent.

If video gambling does become a reality, the vast majority — 70 percent — of revenues from the new machines will be divided evenly between the liquor license holders and the companies licensed by the state to own and operate the new gambling terminals.