The MGCB denied Mike Malik a license, what makes anyone think he can get licensed by the NIGC?

The Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) refused to grant Michael Malik a license as a partner of MotorCity Casino in 1999. He has failed to win any other license from the MGCB since. Malik has never been licensed to manage a casino and given his past history isn't likely to receive a license.

Malik claims his Blue Water Resorts LLC would have a multi-million dollar management contract for a Bay Mills Casino in Port Huron and would be paid 30% of net-win revenues for seven years . If the MGCB wouldn't license Malik, what makes anyone think that the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) would approve a management contract under Malik's control?

This suggests that Malik is fronting for some other interests (maybe Marian Ilitch, Las Vegas players, Kerzner & Wolman, etc.) who will step in and purchase the management contract from Malik before he has to go before the NIGC.

It wouldn't be politically expedient today for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, reportedly a staunch opponent of any Port Huron casino, to see that Marian Ilitch, the proprietor of the Detroit's MotorCity Casino, is bankrolling the Port Huron casino proposal today; but if history repeats itself, Malik could avoid scrutiny by the NIGC by selling the Blue Water Resorts LLC mangement contract to Marian Ilitch or some other entity controlled by Ilitch Holdings, Inc. when and if he ever gets the many approvals needed to build a Bay Mills Indian Community casino in Port Huron.

The question is ... who is Michael Malik fronting for in Port Huron -- Ilitch or someone else -- and what implications does that secret have for Port Huron?

It was revealed this past year that Michael Malik's former MotorCity Casino partner Herb Strather (he also failed to receive a license from the MGCB back in 1999) has been fronting in Massachusetts for big time casino operators Sol Kerzner and Len Wolman.