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Originally Posted by Kasept
Don't have time to answer this except to say produce your corruption claims. Besides an incident of a handful of ticket clerks cheating IRS, what "past full of corruption" are you refering to? Specifics... Tired of the broad brush bullsh-t.
Maybe you don't anything about the training community in NY and have no idea that a certain percentage of NY trainers stay in NY in the winter and make the majority of their annual income at Aqueduct while the big outfits who dominate at Belmont and Saratoga are in Florida. But maybe you don't think everyone deserves to eat.
5 years? You obviously no little about how contracts work and how subcontractors work. The contracts that NYRA will engage with people like Centerplate to run the foodservice need to be a minimum of 10 years long and typically 15, so that the subcontractor can recoup their investment in maintaining and upgrading the facilities. But maybe you think that a subcontractor like Centerplate should install $130,000 dishwashing upgrades at Saratoga for free, like they did in 2006, or operate three enormous foodservice operations at three different plants at a loss.
Regarding the bancruptcy, you clearly have no understanding of what has transpired in this situation the last several years or the structure of the system under which racing in NY operates. I don't have time to explain it to you now, and something tells me it wouldn't be worth the effort.
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Pretty salty thread for X-Mas Eve! Nothing beats a good NYRA thread to get folks sideways.
Steve, it wasn't a "handful" of "clerks." There were 24 people indicted. At least 23 of them pleaded guilty, incluing V. Horgan and C. Imperato who were the Director and Vice President of the Mutuel Department, respectively. Bloodhorse referred to them as "former top NYRA Officials:"
http://www.bloodhorse.com/articleind...e.asp?id=22309
I do think that's the only individual-specific set of indictments and guilty verdicts/pleas there have been.
I also think the day that NYRA signed that "Deferred Indictment Agreement" and agreed to a $3 Million fine as well as to adopt "Anti-Corruption" measures and organizational changes (which led to Meyocks forced resignation), is the day that sealed much of NYRA's public opinion fate.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51C1A9659C8B63
And whatever you think about the Barry Schwartz-Daughter & Son-in-Law matter, you have to think that as the CEO, he and they would have been better advised to err on the side of over-disclosure instead of what happened.
You will always have people fueling the fire that is the bashing of NYRA. It might not be correct, but it's not entirely unreasonable.
The Inner Tube Shall Survive.
--happy holiday--