According to an AP story posted by Forbes, BusinessWeek, the Houston Chronicle and elsewhere; Las Vegas gambling conglomerate MGM Mirage paid a Capitol Hill Lobbyist $160,000 to lobby in support of a bill that 
would grant -- by special Act of Congress -- approvals for an off-reservation Indian casino for the Bay Mills Indian Community in Port Huron, Michigan, 350 miles from the tribe's reservation:
would grant -- by special Act of Congress -- approvals for an off-reservation Indian casino for the Bay Mills Indian Community in Port Huron, Michigan, 350 miles from the tribe's reservation: "Casino owner MGM Mirage paid Cassidy & Associates $160,000 to lobby the federal government in the first half of 2007, according to a disclosure form."
"The Las Vegas company lobbied Congress on a bill that would allow the Bay Mills Indian Community in Michigan [to] build a casino..."
The Bay Mills Indian Community only spent $70,000 on lobbying during the first half of 2007.
MGM Mirage has strong ties to Mrs. Marian Ilitch and Michael J. Malik, Sr. who have been pushing the Bay Mills tribe's casino for Port Huron. Since 2002 their affiliates and partners have paid more than $2 million toward Capitol Hill lobbying and shelled out hundreds of thousands in political contributions.
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