We started yesterday morning with the two emails included in yesterdays blog. Mid-morning we received a phone call from Beverly Martin, Executive Director of the Mississippi Casino Operators Association. She continues to work very hard for all of us. She has been in touch with Bill Mulvey by both email and telephone. Bill Mulvey is the new "liaison" between Mr. Feinberg's office and the GCCF in charge of managing continued handling of "casinos" claims. He has asked for further information about the nature and validity of our claims. Ms. Martin continues her remarkable work and is collecting as much pertinent information as possible to forward to him.
Yesterday afternoon we visited our local GCCF office to try to check out rumors having emanated from there. We spoke with both an office representative and a supervisor. They continue to provide very little hard news. They did confirm that all "casinos" claims were categorically denied without individual review. They did confirm that the reason that Mississippi claims overall have been so statistically skewed toward denial is that we have such a high percentage of "casinos" claims having been categorically denied. They did confirm that what Mr. Feinberg had to say about casino claims being treated equally with tourism claims had not been implemented in a manner timely enough to prevent our tidal wave of denials. They had nothing to say about pending "interim" payments.
On the positive side, they did mention "maybe more emergency advances". They also said that "next week" they will have more information on what our next steps may be. Apparently a new lawyer team will be on hand to work on this for us. The supervisor told us that they "will answer all my questions next week". We certainly look forward to the opportunity to clear up this mess.
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