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Philadelphia Inquirer - July 2, 2010

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Three and a half years after authorizing the Foxwoods Casino project on the South Philadelphia waterfront, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is now beginning the process of licensing one key player, real estate developer Ronald Rubin, and determining the need to license a second, New Jersey lawyer and entrepreneur Lewis Katz. "If [Katz and Rubin] had just sat at their desks and watched the whole thing unfold, there would be no need to be licensed," said Edward Ellers, an adjunct instructor at Temple's Beasley School of Law and a former chief executive of a gaming company. If the two men got involved in decision making, "that's where they have a problem," Ellers said. "It doesn't matter what your title is. It's what you are actually doing."