good evening, everyone, i'm paige novodor. what should have been a routine licensing hearing turned into bedlam yesterday when the flamboyant tangiers casino executive, sam
'ace' rothstein, accused the state's top gaming officials of corruption.
and hypocrisy.
in a wild and unprecedented outburst that followed his gaming license denial, rothstein followed several.
stunned commissioners into the hallway, where he continued his harangue until his own lawyers and friends urged him to leave.
long suspected of running the tangiers without.
a gaming license, yesterday's hearing was to determine whether someone with rothstein's checkered personal history was qualified to officially hold the top gaming post.