INQUIRER: Since a state grand jury found that Pennsylvania’s casino agency acted too often like a player – rather than a regulator – it may be that a longtime prosecutor is just what the state’s Gaming Control Board needs at its helm.
Gov. Corbett’s appointment of his former top deputy in the Attorney General’s Office, William H. Ryan Jr., provides good reason to hope for an overhaul in the way the agency regulates the nearly $3 billion casino industry.
Ryan, sworn in as gaming board chairman on Aug. 29, already has said the agency should work to meet all recommendations contained in a scathing report that grew out of an attorney general probe… (more)
