Tribal casinos owe $55M for State Police work
ALBANY -- State Sen. Craig Johnson revealed that $55 million in security fees are owed to the State Police for services at the four upstate casinos operated by Native American tribes upstate.
In the second hearing into the state's ongoing inability to collect taxes from Indian smoke shops, the Nassau County Democrat disclosed the Seneca Indian Nation owes $41 million in security and fingerprinting fees, the St. Regis Mohawk tribe owes $14.2 million, and the Oneida Indian Nation owes $739,000 through the end of last year.
The Seneca nation, whose tribal stores are the biggest cigarette merchants among the sovereign nations operating in New York, has been balking at the State Police bills because of a dispute over the costs.
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