Don't worry, the Senecas are pretty creative. I suspect they'll just open their own banking services on the reservation as a front.
I'm not exactly one of their biggest fans (their leader owes $9M in federal taxes because he insists no one can tax him, among other transgressions), but this is one issue where I agree with them (sort of). The purchases of a private individual are of no business to the State of New York (not even if it's national security-- that's the federal government's job) and to attempt to regulate this violates the federal government's supremacy over interstate commerce as well as possibly the "right to privacy."
Yep, Moe John owes probably closer to 10M now, its a debt from over 15 years ago. He’s spent time in jail, he lost his business, and his family went through a lot of turmoil for his mistake. He’s usually the first one to say it when somebody brings it up. He now councils business owners and youngsters to always deal straight with the Federal Gov. when it comes to taxes. I’m familiar with his situation because we have some mutual family friends.
I seriously hope that Spitzer doesn’t start crap with them this summer. I have to drive through there regularly and I don’t need the hassle of roads blocked with burning tires and such. I hear that they are discussing putting up their own toll booths on all of the State routes going through Irving, including the Thruway, infact, some are floating the idea of putting up their own rest area/gas station on the T-Way, which might actually be funny when you think a bout it.
When I go home to visit family in the Southern Tier of NY I pass right through Salamanca. Its my last stop before the home stretch and I always stop there and get cheap gas. Over the past couple of years what used to be some pristine reservation land now stands a large casino, with an even larger parking garage. Go up around Buffalo/Niagara Falls too, Indian casinos as far as the eye can see....