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Daniels appoints casino, lottery chiefs - 2005-01-13
Gov. Mitch Daniels today tapped a longtime Clay Circuit Court judge to head up the Indiana Gaming Commission.

His selection was judge Ernest Yelton of Brazil, who has been on the bench since 1979. He will be in charge of the state agency that regulates the Indiana's 10 riverboat casinos and will oversee the development of a new casino for French Lick.

Among Yelton's first jobs will be to review the commission's split decision in July to award the 11th casino to Donald Trump's casino company.
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Michael Jordan invests in new Vegas resort-casino - 2005-01-13
Michael Jordan has been known to wager on everything from golf to the basketball shoot-around game H-O-R-S-E. Now Mr. Jordan will try his luck as a partner in the planned Aqua Blue Luxury Condominium Hotel Resort & Spa in Las Vegas.

Jordan may be risking something more valuable with his Vegas investment however, and that is his status as Madison Avenue's all-time pitchman.

The $600 million development that includes a casino will start construction this summer. The 825-unit complex, with condos selling for $399,000 to $1.2 million, is to open in 2007.
Read the full story at AZ Central.com, AZ