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The Buffalo News

New York, Seneca Nation temporarily extend casino compact

The gaming compact between the Seneca Nation of Indians and New York State, which was set to expire at the end of next week, has been extended through March, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul's Office. The clock is ticking for New York and the Seneca Nation to strike an agreement allowing casino gaming to continue at three Seneca-owned facilities in…
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Seneca Resorts & Casinos rack up 39 awards from Casino Player magazine

SALAMANCA - When it comes to the best destinations in the gaming industry, the Seneca name is once again standing out in the eyes of guests and visitors from across the country. The three Seneca Resorts & Casinos properties - Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino, Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino and Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino - performed exceptionally…
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Seneca Casino announces $546,389 winner

A recent visit to Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino turned into a trip of a lifetime for a Southern Tier resident. Lisa Hargraves of Bath, located in Steuben County, won a $546389 jackpot at the casino on Saturday, July 29. Hargraves was playing a $1 Wheel of Fortune Ultimate Sevens slot machine by IGT when three "Wheel of Fortune" symbols appeared…
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Salamanca Casino Announces Major Jackpot Winner

A recent visit to Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino turned into a trip of a lifetime for a Southern Tier resident. Lisa Hargraves of Bath, located in Steuben County, won a $546389 jackpot at the casino on Saturday, July 29. Hargraves was playing a $1 Wheel of Fortune Ultimate Sevens slot machine by IGT when three "Wheel of Fortune" symbols appeared…
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Bath resident wins $546K jackpot at Salamanca casino

SALAMANCA - A recent visit to Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino turned into the trip of a lifetime for a Southern Tier resident. Lisa Hargraves, of Bath, won a $546389 jackpot at the casino on July 29. "The excitement of a guest experiencing such a memorable moment at our property is indescribable," said Linda Hitchcock, Seneca Allegany Resort &…
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Guest wins big jackpot at Seneca Allegany

SALAMANCA, N.Y. - A recent visit to Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino turned into a trip of a lifetime for a Southern Tier resident. Lisa Hargraves of Bath, Steuben County, won a $546389 jackpot at the casino July 29. Hargraves was playing a $1 Wheel of Fortune Ultimate Sevens™ slot machine when three "Wheel of Fortune" symbols appeared on the…
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Local leaders riled by apparent deal with Seneca Nation for Rochester casino

Local political leaders say they are dismayed that the New York State Senate and Gov. Kathy Hochul's office apparently have agreed to a new gaming compact with the Seneca Nation that includes a full casino in the city of Rochester. Seneca Nation leaders on their own announced last week that a "conceptual agreement" on a new 20-year compact had been…
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Lockport Journal

Seneca Nation president: Casino compact talks progressing

So what's the latest on negotiations over a new gaming compact between the state of New York and the Seneca Nation of Indians? During a recent interview with the Niagara Gazette, Seneca Nation President Rickey Armstrong Sr. said, from his point of view, talks are progressing. Armstrong said representatives from the Nation continue to meet regularly…
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Casino celebrating anniversary, New Year with the 'Goos'

Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino will celebrate its 20th anniversary and the arrival of 2023 in style this weekend as the Niagara Falls gaming site offers a free concert featuring Buffalo's own Goo Goo Dolls. The concert, and the New Year's celebration, will mark two decades since the Dec. 31, 2002 opening of the casino, the first gaming venture of…
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Niagara Gazette

Two decades after opening, Falls casino impact still up for debate

When it opened in 2002, some hailed Seneca Niagara Casino as the catalyst Niagara Falls needed to drive the growth of new hotels, attractions and other businesses in the downtown area. At the time, others weren't quite as convinced of the casino's potential impact, suggesting instead that would be more of a "piece of the puzzle" in re-establishing…
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Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino presents A Boy Band Christmas on Dec.10

SALAMANCA, N.Y. - Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino is in the holiday spirit with a very special weekend of entertainment in December. A Boy Band Christmas, featuring members of 98 Degrees, All-4-One, O-Town and Ryan Cabrera, will perform in the Seneca Allegany Event Center at Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino on Saturday, December 10 at 8 p.m.…
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The Buffalo News

The Editorial Board: As the casino compact nears expiration, both sides should commit to a fair deal

After 20 years of operation, many of them fraught with conflict, New York State and the Seneca Nation of Indians will soon take up the work of negotiating a casino agreement to succeed the one that will expire in late 2023. It's likely to be difficult, but that doesn't mean it has to be ugly and, in that regard, the Senecas are making a pragmatic…
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The Editorial Board: As the casino compact nears expiration, both sides should commit to a fair deal
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Cattaraugus County, Salamanca and school district to split $31.5M casino windfall

Cattaraugus County and the City of Salamanca have an agreement that should pave the way for the county, city and Salamanca school district to receive $31.5 million in delayed casino payments soon. New York state and the Seneca Nation had a disagreement over whether the Nation continued to owe the state a percentage of slot machine money in the…
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The Buffalo News

The Editorial Board: Senecas should drop the hyperbole about its casino debt and focus on a better future

It's welcome news that the Seneca Nation of Indians is pushing for a "fair" casino compact with New York as the existing one nears its sunset. But as it prepares to negotiate, its leaders should tone down the rhetoric. Nobody who is paying attention can believe it has been misused. The Senecas - some of them, anyway - are angry because New York…
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The Editorial Board: Senecas should drop the hyperbole about its casino debt and focus on a better future
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New York Tribe Ads Criticize Plans for Use of Casino Funds

New York-based tribe the Seneca Nation has launched an ad campaign to criticize the state government's use of casino funds. The body is spending tens of thousands of dollars on the radio and television ad campaign, which takes aim at Governor Kathy Hochul for her plan to use Seneca casino revenue to help build a new stadium for the NFL's Buffalo…
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The Buffalo News

With Seneca payment, casino cash will again flow to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Salamanca

The Buffalo Bills won't be the only beneficiaries of the $564.8 million in long-owed casino revenues that Gov. Kathy Hochul extracted from the Seneca Nation this week. While Hochul proposed targeting the vast majority of that money to the new Bills stadium, the cities of Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Salamanca will benefit as well. The state will send…
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NYC on track to get at least one casino license as Adams guns for two

The state Legislature is on track to award at least one full-blown casino license to a gambling operator in the city as part of this year's budget, a key lawmaker involved in negotiations said Thursday. Queens State Sen. Joe Addabbo, who chairs his chamber's Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, told the Daily News that negotiators have agreed to…
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Officials react to Senecas paying casino funds

The Seneca Nation announced March 29 that its Council has taken action to resolve the ongoing gaming compact dispute with New York state and begin talks for a new compact. With the Nation agreeing to transfer $565 million from a restricted escrow account to the state to resolve the outstanding dispute, local officials have yet to know what funding…
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Hochul: Seneca casino money can help offset state’s cost of new Buffalo Bills stadium

This week, Gov. Kathy Hochul won a long-running battle with the Seneca Nation of Indians over more than $500 million in back casino revenue payments. Now she wants to use most of that money to help offset the state's share of a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills. Hochul is proposing to put the state's share of the casino payments - $418 million -…
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Niagara Gazette

Senecas change course on casino cash payments

In the face of crippling sanctions on its bank accounts and those of its gaming corporation, the Seneca Nation Council voted, in an emergency meeting Monday night, to "direct the transfer of funds to resolve the Nation's outstanding gaming compact dispute with New York state as soon as practicable." The council's resolution calls for transferring…
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The Buffalo News

After banking freeze, Senecas pay state nearly $565 million in casino revenues

Facing a state-led freeze on its bank accounts, the Seneca Nation of Indians said Tuesday that it had agreed to send New York State $564.8 million in casino revenues that the tribe had long claimed it did not have to pay. The payment, approved by the Seneca Nation Council a day earlier, appears to resolve for now a five-year dispute over whether…
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After banking freeze, Senecas pay state nearly $565 million in casino revenues
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Casino compact battle ramps up

The Seneca Nation of Indians says all its bank accounts at KeyBank, for both the Nation and Seneca Gaming Corporation, are frozen because of what it calls, the "aggressive overreach" by New York State. It is an ongoing battle as the state waits for the Nation to make casino revenue payments for the three Western New York casinos in Buffalo, Niagara…
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Olean Times Herald

SNI pays $68M in casino revenues to state

SALAMANCA - The Seneca Nation of Indians gave New York Stateofficials a revenue sharing check in the amount of $68 million,Friday - with over $5 million to be received locally. At a ceremony held at the Seneca Allegany Casino,representatives of New York State and Cattaraugus Counties acceptedthe check from Seneca Nation president Barry E. Snyder,…
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The Buffalo News

Senecas still withholding casino revenue from New York pending federal inquiry

The Seneca Nation, dealing with internal strife over whether to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in casino revenue to New York State, will await the results of a federal inquiry into whether the revenue-sharing arrangement is legal before forwarding the funds. Seneca President Matthew Pagels and Gov. Kathy Hochul publicly confirmed that they had…
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Seneca Nation Settles Major Casino Dispute in New York

Seneca Nation, the owner of Niagara Resort and Casino (pictured above) among other gambling venues, has come to a settlement agreement in New York regarding casino revenue share payments. [Image: Shutterstock.com] The Seneca Nation of Indians has come to a settlement agreement in New York over a long-running battle regarding its casino revenue…
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Seneca Nation Settles Major Casino Dispute in New York
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Mayor puts tab owed to Buffalo at end of casino dispute at $40M

The mayor expects the funds to be sent from Albany as soon as Senecas pay the state. Windfall for other local communities will be nowhere near as large. BUFFALO, N.Y. - With a multi-year legal dispute between the Seneca Nation of Indians and New York State over casino revenue sharing now over, local communities impacted by the conflict are busy…
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Mayor puts tab owed to Buffalo at end of casino dispute at $40M
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Seneca Nation settles multi-million dollar casino dispute, seeks new gaming pact with NY

The Seneca Nation of Indians has agreed to settle a long-running dispute over payments it makes to the state from its Western New York casino revenues, but is seeking a new gaming compact with the state in return. Under the agreement, the Senecas will pay the state the nearly $500 million in revenue-sharing money it has withheld since the dispute…
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Seneca Nation settles multi-million dollar casino dispute, seeks new gaming pact with NY
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Seneca Allegany casino wins 12 ‘Best of Slots’ awards

SALAMANCA - The Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino in Salamanca was recently presented with 12 "Best of Slots" awards from Strictly Slots magazine, some of the nearly 30 awards given to Seneca Resorts & Casinos properties. Seneca Allegany joins Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino and Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in winning a combined 28 awards, including…
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The Buffalo News

Federal review calls into question legality of Seneca casino payments to NY

ALBANY - The Biden administration has opened an inquiry into whether a casino revenue sharing deal between the Seneca Nation of Indians and New York State is legal, a potentially significant step for the tribe that has been ordered by an arbitration panel and federal judges to pay $500 million in missed casino payments to Albany. The Senecas filed…
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New York's Seneca Casinos launches new igaming platform

eneca Gaming Corporation unveiled its play-for-fun online gaming site iPlaySeneca.com, which was created in partnership with GTECH G2. The site features more than 100 slot machines and video poker games, 30 table games, and head-to-head poker and bingo. It is also available on apps for mobile devices, developed in partnership with Bally…
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The Buffalo News

Billboard near Buffalo casino is a sign of times for Seneca Nation

A new addition to the Buffalo skyline, visible to southbound drivers on the Interstate-190, went live last week with little fanfare. It is a digital billboard, a structure that typically wouldn't merit much notice, but its location is noteworthy: The new facility at 180 Perry St., which will celebrate its grand opening Friday morning, is located…
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GAN Partners with New York Casino Operator Seneca Gaming Corporation

GAN announced that soon it will be providing its social casino and simulated gaming products to Seneca Gaming Corporation as part of the new partnership with the New York casino operator. Seneca Gaming is a leading provider in New York and runs three of state's leading casino establishments on behalf of Seneca Nation of Indians. GAN is set to…
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GAN to power Seneca Gaming social casino

GAN is to replace the existing simulated gaming solution with a bespoke product for the operator, which runs three of New York's leading casino establishments on behalf of the Seneca Nation of Indians. The B2B software supplier will rebrand SGC's social play-for-fun offering for both desktop and mobile via its core Simulated Gaming software, and…
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GAN adds Seneca Gaming to client list

he unique solution is powered by GAN's core Simulated Gaming software and provides meaningful marketing, brand building and revenue opportunities for both operators and GAN. Seneca Gaming Corporation operates three casinos in New York on behalf of the Seneca Nation of Indians: Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino in Niagara Falls, Seneca Buffalo Creek…
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Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino Welcomes Eager Patrons

Seneca Nation of Indians gave its nod to the official launch of in-person casino gaming and tribal gaming enthusiasts were eager to see everything up for grabs after three months of hiatus. June 18 saw the official start of operation at Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino, paving the way for a riveting weekend of gaming and diverse entertainment…
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