New Century Entertainment has announced that they plan to give up their state license to distribute slot machines. They are currently only one of sixteen other companies that have received licenses to distribute slot machines in the state of Pennsylvania. The company, which includes former Allegheny County Chief Executive Jim Roddey, was poised to become one of the larger distributors under a new Pennsylvania Law. 

Pennsylvanians passed a law that states that the purchase of a slot machine within the state had to go through a middleman, or a distributor that had been licensed through the state to buy and sell slot machines on behalf of the state. The law was passed to try and thwart local corruption with the slot machine dealings.  

The attorney for the company stated that New Century Entertainment had been running into roadblocks due to politics within the state and by the businesses that make the slot machines. The attorney did not, however, name names when it came to which political avenues or slot machine distributors had been holding the company back.  With such a large minority following within the company, it is a loss to see the company pull back.

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