Author sees tribes in Connecticut losing foothold on gaming

Wednesday, March 27, 2013  

Robert Steele, a former U.S. Congressman, says Connecticut tribes are losing their hold on the New England gaming industry as options expand in the region.

Steele, who served two terms in Congress, lived in southeastern Connecticut before the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe built their casinos. For years they were the only game in town but that's changing as competition heats up in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York and neighboring states.

“You’re starting to get casino saturation across the country,” Steele told The Litchfield County Times.

Steele is the author of The Curse: Big-Time Gambling's Seduction of a Small New England Townl, a fictional book about the rise of Connecticut's gaming tribes.

Get the Story:
Former Congressman Steele's Litchfield Talk: 'The Curse' of Casinos (The Litchfield County Times 3/27)

Novel documents 'The Curse' of tribal gaming in Connecticut (1/25)