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On September 13, 2012, Greene County Sheriff Jonathan Benison presented checks from the four operating bingo establishments in the county to various political entities including the Sheriff’s office. Greenetrack, Inc. contributed a total for $59,277.42; Green Charity, $45,800; Young People Alliance Organization (YPAO/Lucky Star); $20,800 and Dream, Inc. (Frontier) $44,200. From the four [...]
On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, Greenetrack, Inc. issued $53,854.84 in bingo receipts for the month of December, 2010. The Greenetrack checks were presented to Sheriff Jonathan Benison for distribution to the various governmental entities as earmarked in the Sheriff’s Bingo Rules and Regulations. In these recent distributions from Greenetrack the Greene County Commission [...]
On Monday, October 31, Sheriff Joe Benison distributed checks from Green Charity and Greenetrack. The money was from the bingo distribution following the bingo rules and regulations written by Sheriff Joe Benison. The checks from Green Charity were for September and October; Greenetrack’s checks were for September only. Benison said there would be [...]
Racial bias was shown in the FBI investigation of electronic bingo in Alabama said Federal District Judge Myron Thompson of the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division. According to Thompson’s opinion, “The United States conducted in-person electronic surveillance of the defendants with the assistance of three lawmakers: State Senator Scott Beason, State Senator [...]
By John Zippert, Co-Publisher Greenetrack CEO, Luther “Nat” Winn, told a cheering crowd of 250 or more at the Eutaw Activity Center last Wednesday, that he plans to bring electronic bingo machines back but the State of Alabama will not be able to seize them again. On two prior occasions in the past year [...]
An emergency hearing on whether or not the state had to return the bingo machines seized from Greenetrack on June 1 ended with Judge Houston L. Brown sticking to his original ruling. He ruled on August 3 that the state must return all property seized by the State Attorney General’s Office in the June 1 [...]
On August 3, 2011, Circuit Judge Houston L. Brown issued an order mandating the return of all the electronic bingo machines seized by the State on June 1, 2011 from Greenetrack facilities. In an 11-page Order Granting Return of Seized Property, Brown pointed out several defects in testimony given by the State’s witnesses. In this [...]
Sheriff Joe Benison recently provided a statement of the first disbursements of bingo receipts from the Frontier Bingo issued through Dreams, Inc. When questioned about a distribution for May from Frontier, Sheriff Benison said, “We’re still working on that.” The disbursements made by Sheriff Benison on July 5 represented the second distribution of Greenetrack’s bingo [...]
The Greene County Courthouse was packed for a hearing that began Wednesday on the validity of the search warrant that was issued for the latest June 1, 2011 raid on Greenetrack which resulted in the seizure of more than 300 electronic bingo machines. This seizure caused the second shutdown of bingo operations in [...]
A court hearing pertaining to the illegal raids at Greenetrack is scheduled for 10 a.m. on July 6 at the Greene County Courthouse. It will be followed by a community town hall meeting held by the National Action Network in regards to the disenfranchisement of Greene County voters by the state of Alabama. A representative [...]
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