State gambling regulators sounded unmoved Thursday by a request by Suffolk Downs officials to reconsider the selection last month of Wynn Resorts to build the only resort casino in Greater Boston.
In selecting Wynn’s proposal for Everett, the state gambling commission passed over a proposal by Mohegan Sun at Suffolk Downs in Revere.
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Racetrack officials this week asked for the reconsideration in a lengthy letter to the commission, citing recent indictments against three men connected to the Everett land on which Wynn intends to build a $1.6 billion hotel and casino.
Commissioner James McHugh, who chaired the board during its deliberations last month over the fate of the Greater Boston casino license, reiterated at a meeting Thursday that commission investigators have found no evidence tying Wynn to an alleged scheme by the current landowners to hide the fact that a convicted felon had a stake in the property.
“You’ve got a good proposal for the Commonwealth, a good proposal for the region, you’ve got a good proposal by people who weren’t involved in any wrongdoing,” McHugh told reporters, speaking about the Wynn development. “Why should the Commonwealth and the region and that operator be penalized for something they had no knowledge of and over which they had no control?”
Suffolk Downs’s letter included other complaints related to public access to the Everett parcel, and an appraisal Wynn used to set the purchase price of the property.
McHugh said the board would review the letter carefully before directly responding to it.