This morning let's start with a look back at the beginning of legalized betting in the Kansas City metro.
Youtube tease: "This is the show open for a 2015 documentary called "Fun On The Run: The Story of the Woodlands."
Already, it's clear the producers have a pretty good understanding of how this gaming deal went down. Look for more on Kansas City documentary which will debut on Tuesday, May 19, at 7 p.m. on Time Warner Cable SportsChannel.
Developing . . .
We need to legalize dog fights and chicken fights also. And gladiatorial mortal combat, in stadiums, pitting arrested ghetto youths and meth addicts against each other with swords and pitchforks. People would pay good money to watch this stuff, and it would make Kansas a tourism mecca and also help make up for the Brownback economic nightmare. Just a thought.
ReplyDelete^That's called "Baltimore." Free to watch on TV news.
ReplyDeleteThe Woodlands was a big deal for like a year or two and then it faded into the woodwork. It's just an abandoned property now.
ReplyDeleteI went there till they closed. I am actually pretty good at betting on dogs and ponies. Jai-ali...not so much.......
ReplyDeleteThis government owned circus act was stolen blind. GM caught by the FBI attempting to flee the country. Was he the front man only? His hands were slapped in court and entire business swept away with all the crime and theft in KCK. Corruption Central, 9th floor City Hall and the Courthouse big winners. Taxpayers have been screwed for years.
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Kansas City: Members of the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission were informed Feb. 15 that thousands of dollars have been stolen from The Woodlands, where six employees have been fired since early January. The missing funds were reported to the commission by track management after other track employees discovered undocumented expenditures on the books.
In his first public report on the case, Tracy Diel, the commission's interim executive director, told other commission members that new information still was coming to light and that the investigation was not completed. Diel also reported that the Wyandotte County district attorney's office has been alerted to the commission's investigation at the racetrack and will be asked to consider criminal charges.
Diel told the commission that checks were made out to at least one racetrack employee and cashed, but the money was not used for track expenses. "That individual was getting cash to provide goods and services at The Woodlands, but was not procuring those goods and services," said Diel, who declined to name the employee.
Diel said the scam apparently worked for as long as it did, perhaps a year, because of the plausible cover story the employee said he used - that some merchants preferred to deal in cash because of widespread concerns that the financially troubled track could close.
Diel told commissioners the matter appeared to be a case of "a lack of control, a lack of accounting by management.”
Who was the former wrestler that worked there?
ReplyDeleteRufus R. Jones and Bob Geigel both provided security and were often good fun to us who knew them from live at Memorial Hall KCK and WDAFTV. Sightings of Bulldog and Harley also. Dotte devils let a good thing get away...friends and family from the metro still will come to wyco and drop $$ on the dog and pony trax...Bring it back...and Brian the chef too!!
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