1 1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 2 CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION 3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 5 PUBLIC MEETING NO. 06-02-15 6 7 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8 9 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10 Atlantic City Commission Offices 11 Joseph P. Lordi Public Meeting Room - First Floor 12 Tennessee Avenue and Boardwalk 13 Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401 14 10:32 a.m. to 10:49 a.m. 15 16 17 Certified Shorthand Reporter: Darlene Sillitoe 18 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19 20 CIPOLLONI & ASSOCIATES, INC. 21 CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTERS 22 1125 ATLANTIC AVENUE, SUITE 416 23 ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY 08401 24 (609) 348-9190 25 www.cipolloni-associates.com 2 1 B E F O R E : 2 CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION: LINDA M. KASSEKERT, CHAIR 3 RALPH G. FRULIO, VICE CHAIR MICHAEL C. EPPS, COMMISSIONER 4 MICHAEL A. FEDORKO, COMMISSIOENR 5 PRESENT FOR THE CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION: DARYL W. NANCE, ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYST 6 DANIEL J. HENEGHAN, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER 7 OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL: DIANNA W. FAUNTLEROY, GENERAL COUNSEL/EXECUTIVE 8 SECRETARY DAVID C. MISSIMER, ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL 9 MARY WOZNIAK, ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL STEVEN M. INGIS, ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL 10 SETH H. BRILIANT, SENIOR COUNSEL LON E. MAMOLEN, SENIOR COUNSEL 11 BERNADETTE T. FRIGEN, PROGRAM SUPERVISOR SANDRA DELIA, LEGAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST 12 DIVISION OF GAMING ENFORCEMENT: 13 DEPUTY ATTORNEYS GENERAL TIMOTHY FICCHI, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 14 NORMA STANCIL, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL DOROTHY TURI, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 3 1 A P P E A R A N C E S : 2 ITEM NO. 5 KAREN WOZNIAK, ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL DOROTHY TURI, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 3 BY: N. LYNNE HUGHES, ESQ. FOR: HARRAH'S OPERATING COMPANY 4 ITEM NO. 6 SANDRA DELIA, LEGAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST 5 DOROTHY TURI, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL BY: N. LYNNE HUGHES, ESQ. 6 FOR: HARRAH'S OPERATING COMPANY 7 ITEM NO. 7 SETH BRILIANT, SENIOR COUNSEL TIMOTHY FICCHI, DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL 8 BY: N. LYNNE HUGHES, ESQ. FOR: HARRAH'S OPERATING COMPANY 9 ITEM NO. 8 DAVID C. MISSIMER, ASSISTANT GENERAL 10 COUNSEL 11 ITEM NO. 9 LON E. MAMOLEN, SENIOR COUNSEL 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 4 1 AGENDA PUBLIC MEETING NO. 06-02-15 2 FEBRUARY 15, 2006, 10:30 a.m. ITEM PAGE VOTE 3 1 Ratification of the minutes of 8 8 4 February 1, 2006 2 Applications for employee and casino 8 5 service industry licenses Exhibit List 1, 10 applications 8 9 6 Exhibit List 2, 13 applications 8 9 3 Stipulations of settlement and 7 consent agreements: a) Joseph E. Thomas, Jr. (06-0043-EA) 10 11 8 b) Veronica M. Jamison (05-0726-ER) 10 11 c) Sandra D. Trettner (05-0409-ER) 10 11 9 d) William L. Wiederhold (05-0727-ER) 10 11 e) Kevin V. Nguyen (05-0462-ER) 10 11 10 f) Shudong Cui (04-0856-EA) 10 11 g) Sandy M. Fisher (05-0701-EA) 10 11 11 h) Mitchell L. Greenidge (05-0033-ER) 10 11 i) Santo Stracuzzi (05-0676-ER) 10 11 12 j) Jose A. Aviles (05-0497-ER) 10 11 k) Michael Bell (05-0465-ER) 10 11 13 l) Stanelle R. Franklin (05-0403-ER) 10 11 m) Willie J. Haye, Jr. (05-0224-34) 10 11 14 n) Robert C. Bing (04-0331-RC) 10 11 o) Melveyne K. Scudder (05-0054-ER) 10 11 15 4 Application for suspension in 11 12 State v. Deborah J. Pate (a/k/a Debbie Beck) 16 5 Petition of Harrah's Operating Company, 12 14 Inc., (HOC), Marina Associates, Atlantic 17 City Showboat, Inc., Bally's Park Place, Inc., and Boardwalk Regency Corp., for 18 a waiver of qualifiation for the Vice President of Corporate Teleservices 19 (Elsia Casale) (PRN 0110603) 6 Consideration of the qualification of 14 16 20 Scott Santos as a Vice President of Human Resources, Eastern Division of Harrah's 21 Operating Company, Inc. 7 Petition of Boardwalk Regency 17 18 22 Corporation, (d/b/a Caesars Atlantic City) for an amendment to its Certificate 23 of Operation and casino hotel alcoholic beverage license to permit a temporary 24 expansion of its casino floor (PRN 0190603) 25 5 1 AGENDA (CONTINUED) PAGE VOTE 2 8 Proposed publication of the amendments 18 19 to NJAC 19:41-9.8 (gaming related casino 3 service industry license fee) 9 Proposed publication of amendments and 20 20 4 new rules for Flop Poker 10 Proposed temporary adoption of 21 23 5 amendments and new rule for blackjack bonanza; authorization of rulemaking 6 experiment for blackjack bonanza pursuant to NJSA 5:12-69e 7 8 PUBLIC PORTION: 9 Franklin Johnson 24 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 6 1 E X H I B I T S : 2 ITEM NO. 1 DESCRIPTION ID EVD 3 EL-1 Remand for hearings 10 license X 4 applications EL-2 Grant 13 licenses X 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (Exhibits retained by Commission.) 7 1 (Public Meeting 06-02-16 was commenced at 2 10:32 a.m.) 3 MR. NANCE: I'd like to read an opening 4 statement: 5 This is to advise the general public that in 6 compliance with Chapter 231 of the Public Laws of 7 1975 entitled the "Open Public Meetings Act," the 8 New Jersey Casino Control Commission on October 9 13th, 2005, filed with the Secretary of State at the 10 State House in Trenton an annual meeting schedule. 11 On October 14th, copies were mailed to the Press of 12 Atlantic City, the Newark Star Ledger, and the 13 office of the clerk of Atlantic City. 14 Members of the press will be permitted to 15 take photographs, and we would ask that this be done 16 in a manner which is not disruptive or distracting 17 to the Commission. 18 The use of cellular telephones in the public 19 meeting room while the Commission is in session is 20 prohibited. 21 Any members of the public who wish to 22 address the Commission will be given the opportunity 23 to do so before the Commission adjourns for the day. 24 Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. 25 (The flag salute was recited.) 8 1 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Good morning. 2 MR. NANCE: Good morning. 3 The matters discussed in closed session 4 were: Employee and enterprise license matters. 5 The Commissioners approved the February 1st, 6 2006, closed session minutes. 7 Litigation update regarding Warren Lackland 8 and Lewis Springer, Jr., versus State of New Jersey 9 and the Casino Control Commission and Tyron J. Floyd 10 versus the Casino Control Commission and Sands Hotel 11 Casino. 12 Item No. 1, ratification of the minutes of 13 February 1st, 2006, public meeting. 14 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to approve. 15 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Second. 16 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 17 and seconded. All in favor? 18 (Ayes.) 19 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 20 (No response.) 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 22 MR. NANCE: Item No. 2, application for 23 employee and casino service industry licenses. This 24 agenda item will be entered as Exhibit List 1 and 2. 25 Exhibit List 1 consists of 10 applications 9 1 for initial, renewal and/or key casino employee 2 licenses. 3 The Division has objected to licensure. 4 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Motion to remand for 5 hearings. 6 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 7 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 8 and seconded. All in favor? 9 (Ayes.) 10 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 11 (No response.) 12 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 13 MR. NANCE: Exhibit Lists 2 consists of 13 14 applications for initial and/or renewal of casino 15 key and casino employee licenses. 16 Staff and Division have recommended that 17 these licenses be granted. 18 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Motion to grant 19 applications. 20 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 21 and seconded. All in favor? 22 (Ayes.) 23 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 24 (No response.) 25 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 10 1 MR. NANCE: Item No. 3, stipulation of 2 settlement and consent agreements. 3 When I call your name, please come forward, 4 stand behind this middle table, spreading across the 5 room so that you may be seen: Joseph Thomas, Jr., 6 Veronica Jamison, Sandra Trettner, William 7 Wiederhold, Kevin Nguyen, Shudong Cui, Sandy Fisher, 8 Mitchell Greenidge, Santo Stracuzzi, Jose Aviles, 9 Michael Bell, Stanelle Franklin, Willie Haye, Jr., 10 Robert C. Bing, Melveyne Scudder. 11 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Has everyone who's name 12 been called come forward? 13 I think, sir, you need to come forward. 14 Thanks, Dot. 15 All right. In a moment we are going to vote 16 on the stipulations that you have agreed to with the 17 Division of Gaming Enforcement. I'm going to ask 18 each of you to state your name, starting with you, 19 sir. 20 MR. NGUYEN: Kevin Nguyen. 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Your name, sir? 22 MR. STRACUZZI: Santo Stracuzzi. 23 MR. CUI: Shudong Cui. 24 MS. TRETTNER: Sandra D. Trettner. 25 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Okay. As I said, we're 11 1 going to vote on the stipulations that you've agreed 2 to with the Division. I'm going to ask at this 3 point if any of you wish to be heard on this matter. 4 You don't have to say anything if you don't want to. 5 Does anyone wish to be heard? 6 (No response.) 7 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Okay. Miss Stancil? 8 MS. STANCIL: I ask that you grant the -- 9 approve the stipulations. 10 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 11 Any questions? 12 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to grant 13 stipulations. 14 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Second. 15 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 16 and seconded. All in favor? 17 (Ayes.) 18 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 19 (No response.) 20 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 21 Thank you very much for coming. Good luck. 22 MR. NANCE: Item No. 4, application for 23 suspension in State versus Deborah J. Pate. 24 Ms. Frigen? 25 MS. FRIGEN: Before we hear from the 12 1 Division, let me ask whether Miss Pate is 2 represented or present today? 3 Apparently, she is not here. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 5 Miss Stancil? 6 MS. STANCIL: I have nothing further, Madame 7 Chair, but I would ask that you grant the 8 application. 9 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 10 Any questions? 11 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to grant the 12 Division's application to suspend Miss Pate's casino 13 service employee registration. 14 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Second. 15 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 16 and seconded. All in favor? 17 (Ayes.) 18 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 19 (No response.) 20 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 21 Thank you. 22 MR. NANCE: Item No. 5, petition of Harrah's 23 Operating Company, Inc., Marina Associates, Atlantic 24 City Showboat, Inc., Bally's Park Place, Inc., and 25 Boardwalk Regency Corp., for a waiver of 13 1 qualification for the HOC Vice President of 2 Corporate Teleservices. 3 Miss Wozniak? 4 MS. WOZNIAK: Good morning. Miss Hughes is 5 here for the Petitioners and Miss Turi for the 6 Division. 7 And I have distributed a draft resolution to 8 counsel. 9 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 10 Miss Hughes? 11 MS. HUGHES: Thank you. Good morning. 12 On behalf of Harrah's Operating Company, I 13 did review the draft resolution. Thank you very 14 much. 15 I have no objection and ask you to grant 16 this petition. 17 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 18 Miss Turi? 19 MS. TURI: Once again, the Division has 20 reviewed the draft resolution. We have no 21 objection. 22 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 23 Any questions? 24 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Motion to adopt the 25 draft resolution and waive the qualification 14 1 requirement pursuant to NJSA 5:12-85d(1) as to Elsia 2 Casale in her capacity as Vice President of 3 Corporate Teleservices for Harrah's Operating 4 Company, Incorporated. 5 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Second. 6 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 7 and seconded. This is a role call vote. 8 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Epps? 9 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Yes. 10 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Frulio -- I mean, 11 Commissioner Fedorko? 12 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Yes. 13 MR. NANCE: Vice Chair Frulio? 14 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Yes. 15 MR. NANCE: Chair Kassekert? 16 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Yes. 17 MR. NANCE: The record will reflect that the 18 motion is unanimous. 19 Item No. 6, consideration of qualification 20 of Scott Santos as Vice President of the Human 21 Resources of Eastern Division of Harrah's Operating 22 Company, Inc. 23 Miss Delia? 24 MS. DELIA: Good morning, Chair, 25 Commissioners. 15 1 Scott Santos was found temporarily qualified 2 by the Commission on August 17th, 2005. A copy of 3 the draft resolution has been circulated to the 4 parties. 5 Lynne Hughes is here on behalf of the 6 Petitioners and Dorothy Turi is here on behalf of 7 the Division. 8 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 9 Miss Hughes? 10 MS. HUGHES: Yes. Again, acting on behalf 11 of Harrah's Operating Company, I have reviewed the 12 draft resolution. I have no objections and ask for 13 you to grant the petition. 14 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 15 Miss Turi? 16 MS. TURI: Good morning. 17 Once again, you have a copy of the 18 Division's letter report regarding Mr. Santos. 19 We've also reviewed the draft resolution, and we 20 recommend that he be qualified. 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 22 Any questions? 23 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Move to adopt the draft 24 resolution and find Scott Santos qualified to serve 25 as Vice President of Human Resources, Eastern 16 1 Division of Harrah's Operating Company, Inc. 2 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 3 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Second. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Motion made and seconded. 5 This is a role call vote. 6 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Epps? 7 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Yes. 8 MR. NANCE: Commissioner Frulio -- 9 Commissioner Fedorko? 10 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Yes. 11 MR. NANCE: Vice Chair Frulio? 12 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Yes. 13 CHAIR KASSEKERT: They do look alike. 14 MR. NANCE: Chair Kassekert? 15 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Yes. 16 They are the same age I believe, too. 17 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: I'm the better looking 18 one. 19 MR. NANCE: The record will reflect that the 20 motion is unanimous. 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 22 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: My father looks 23 better than him. 24 MS. HUGHES: I knew it was coming. 25 MS. TURI: Thank you. 17 1 MR. NANCE: Item No. 7, petition of 2 Boardwalk Regency Corporation for an amendment to 3 its certificate of operation and casino hotel 4 alcoholic beverage license to permit a temporary 5 expansion of its casino floor. 6 Mr. Briliant? 7 MR. BRILIANT: Good morning, Madame Chair, 8 and fellow Commissioners. 9 Lynne Hughes is here on behalf of the 10 Petitioner. Timothy Ficchi is here on behalf of the 11 Division. 12 I've circulated the proposed draft 13 resolution, and all counsel have indicated that it 14 is satisfactory to them. 15 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 16 Miss Hughes? 17 MS. HUGHES: Thank you. 18 On behalf of Boardwalk Regency, I would ask 19 that you approve the petition. Should you have any 20 questions, I have brought today the director of 21 table game operations, Mr. Natello (phonetic). 22 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 23 Mr. Ficchi? 24 MR. FICCHI: Thank you, Madame Chair, and 25 Commissioners. 18 1 The Division has reviewed the draft 2 resolution. And as Mr. Briliant has indicated, we 3 have no objections to the petition. 4 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 5 Any questions? 6 COMMISSIONER EPPS: Madame Chair, I move 7 that we adopt the draft resolution and approve for 8 petition of Boardwalk Regency Corporation for an 9 amendment to its certificate of operation and casino 10 hotel alcoholic beverage license to permit the 11 temporary expansion of its casino floor subject to 12 the conditions in the resolution. 13 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 14 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 15 and seconded. All in favor? 16 (Ayes.) 17 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 18 (No response.) 19 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 20 Thank you very much. 21 MR. BRILIANT: Thank you. 22 MR. FICCHI: Thank you. 23 MR. NANCE: Item No. 8, proposed publication 24 of the amendments to NJAC 19:41-9.8. 25 Mr. Missimer? 19 1 MR. MISSIMER: Good morning. 2 You should have before you a draft notice of 3 a proposal which would amend section 9.8 of Chapter 4 41. These amendments would modify the application 5 fee schedule for gaming related casino service 6 industry enterprise applicants. These would be the 7 first change in these fees that have been made since 8 1993 and would still result in a reduction of the 9 overall fees which are charged to such enterprises 10 but would be an increase in what is currently 11 charged, basically, by eliminating the cap that 12 currently exists in the regulation. 13 We would recommend that you approve this for 14 publication in the New Jersey Register. 15 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 16 Any questions? 17 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Approve for publication. 18 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 19 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 20 and seconded. All in favor? 21 (Ayes.) 22 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 23 (No response.) 24 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 25 MR. MISSIMER: Thank you. 20 1 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 2 MR. NANCE: Item No. 9, proposed publication 3 of amendment and new rules for Flop Poker. 4 MR. MAMOLEN: Good morning, Madame Chair, 5 and Commissioners. 6 This matter is before you for publication at 7 this point. It has been the subject of temporary 8 adoption and a test which was authorized several 9 months ago. As you are aware, this is a new game in 10 which they are both at simultaneous times play 11 against the house, against the posted pay table, as 12 well as against other players at the table. 13 The only change to the regulations from 14 which was proposed for adoption is increase in the 15 table size to allow for up to nine players. 16 Previously was up to six. 17 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 18 Any questions? 19 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Approve for publication. 20 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 22 and seconded. All in favor? 23 (Ayes.) 24 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 25 (No response.) 21 1 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 2 MR. NANCE: Item No. 10, proposed temporary 3 adoption of amendments and new rule for blackjack 4 bonanza, authorization of rulemaking experiment for 5 blackjack bonanza pursuant to NJSA 5:12-69e. 6 Mr. Mamolen? 7 MR. MAMOLEN: This is another blackjack 8 variation which is really just a side wager, and 9 that is a mandatory side wager in this instance. 10 The blackjack bonanza variation would call for use 11 of specially inscribed playing cards. It's an 12 eight-deck game, four deck types, two each of each 13 deck type. The game basically calls for the 14 placement of a one-dollar side wager, and it would 15 be a pay-out only in the event of a blackjack or if 16 a player were to have three sevens in his or her 17 first three cards. The game would with the side 18 wager -- would substantially increase the house 19 advantage to regular blackjack. 20 At this point in time we recommend that the 21 Commission temporarily adopt and authorize a test 22 for the game. 23 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 24 Any questions? 25 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Yes. I'm not going to 22 1 stand in the way of any tests, Lon. But I do have a 2 problem with the dollar amounts being printed on 3 playing cards. I got a problem with the confusion 4 between the amounts and suits that come up on this 5 game that you had shown us during the demonstration. 6 I got a problem with the revenue on a $5 game being 7 the same as a $25 game. And I have a problem where 8 I read where the house advantage for the blackjack 9 bonanza wager is purported to be a 26.61 percent, 10 for the record. And we'll see how it goes with the 11 test. 12 CHAIR KASSEKERT: That's right. 13 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: And be that as it may, 14 Madame Chair, I'll move to, A, preliminarily approve 15 blackjack bonanza wager as a new variation of the 16 game compatible with the public interest pursuant to 17 section 5 of the Act; B, authorize the publication 18 of the notice of temporary adoption which will 19 permit a test of blackjack bonanza wager to begin on 20 or after March 13th, 2006, subject to the conditions 21 listed below, and continue for a period of time not 22 to exceed 270 days; C, temporarily adopt the 23 amendments contained in the notice of proposal for 24 the purpose of conducting the above test; D, the 25 delegation to the Director of Division of Compliance 23 1 the authority to establish the terms and conditions 2 of a test of blackjack offered with the blackjack 3 bonanza wager and to approve any gaming equipment 4 necessary to the implementation of the test; E, 5 condition any test of blackjack with the blackjack 6 bonanza wager upon the filing with and approval by 7 the Division of Compliance with all necessary test 8 submissions for a section 69e test of the blackjack 9 bonanza wager and; F, further, condition any 10 preliminary approval of blackjack with the blackjack 11 bonanza wager and the commencement of any test of 12 blackjack offered with the blackjack bonanza wager 13 upon filing of a completed application for a casino 14 service industry license by and the issuance of a 15 transactional waiver to Blackjack Bonanza, Inc. 16 COMMISSIONER EPPS: What did you say? 17 Second. 18 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 19 and seconded. All in favor? 20 (Ayes.) 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 22 (No response.) 23 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 24 I note Mr. Ficchi is here. And I'm sure 25 that the Division will be -- 24 1 MR. FICCHI: We'll be conducting the review, 2 and nothing I would say would interfere with that 3 resolution at all. 4 The other thing we talked about, our report 5 should be coming forth -- we're very close to 6 completing it now, so you'll have that completed for 7 your staff. 8 CHAIR KASSEKERT: All right. Very good. 9 Thank you. 10 Thank you very much, Mr. Ficchi. 11 MR. MAMOLEN: Thank you. 12 MR. NANCE: In accordance with Resolution 13 No. 05-12-14-19, the next closed session of the 14 Commission shall be held on Wednesday, March 1st, 15 2006, at 9:15 a.m. in the Commission offices. 16 It is now time for the public participation 17 portion of the meeting. 18 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Is there anyone from the 19 public who wishes to be heard? 20 MR. JOHNSON: Yeah. 21 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Yes, sir? Will you state 22 your name and address for the record, please. 23 MR. JOHNSON: My name is Franklin Johnson. 24 Address is 701 East 19th Street, North Carolina. 25 My issue is racketeering and corruption 25 1 around the casino. I have been in contact with the 2 US government concerning the FBI in terms of 3 wrongful misinterpretation of the laws and 4 enforcement of those laws in terms of eviction, 5 exclusion, and ejection from those casinos. 6 Many times I've been forcibly charged and 7 prosecuted wrongfully by municipalities. 8 It is under my impression, my understanding, 9 in terms of the FBI that that is not the correct way 10 that the Division made those procedures. 11 I don't want to be too far off balance on 12 that, but your state police, in terms of some of 13 them in regards to their particular corruption -- 14 and I say in terms of their corruption -- in 15 allowing the security department to assault and 16 harass and to create an atmosphere of tyranny and 17 oppression concerning my involvement in those 18 casinos. 19 Now, I don't know whether the procedures and 20 the guidelines have been explained to them 21 correctly, but I'm quite sure it doesn't read like 22 that. 23 And that's about all I have to say for right 24 now. 25 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Okay. We appreciate you 26 1 coming today to talk to us. 2 MR. JOHNSON: Very well. 3 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 4 MR. JOHNSON: Oh, one other thing. 5 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Sir? 6 MR. JOHNSON: They want facts concerning 7 that issue of racketeering, and I'm quite sure you 8 should be in assistance of helping them establish 9 those facts if you choose to represent them in 10 regards to this particular commission. 11 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Thank you. 12 Seeing no one else, I'll declare this 13 portion of the meeting closed and entertain a motion 14 to adjourn. 15 VICE CHAIR FRULIO: Motion to adjourn. 16 COMMISSIONER FEDORKO: Second. 17 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion has been made 18 and seconded. All in favor? 19 (Ayes.) 20 CHAIR KASSEKERT: Opposed? 21 (No response.) 22 CHAIR KASSEKERT: The motion carries. 23 (Public meeting 06-02-15 was adjourned at 24 10:49 a.m.) 25 27 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 3 4 I, DARLENE SILLITOE, a Certified Shorthand 5 Reporter and Notary Public of the State of New 6 Jersey, certify that the foregoing is a true and 7 accurate transcript of the proceedings. 8 9 10 I further certify that I am neither 11 attorney, of counsel for, nor related to or employed 12 by any of the parties to the action; further that I 13 am not a relative or employee of any attorney or 14 counsel employed in this case; nor am I financially 15 interested in the action. 16 17 18 DARLENE SILLITOE CSR 19 License No XI01023 20 21 22 Dated: February 19, 2006 23 My Co mission Expires on July 10, 2009 24 ID No 2062871 25