“While it has taken longer than we hoped,” McGregor said in a statement, “the time is now here, and we are pleased that hundreds of our people will have a new job, and VictoryLand will be generating a badly needed shot in the arm for Tuskegee and this entire region of Alabama.” Last month, VictoryLand owner Milton McGregor announced the state closure was illegal, and the casino would reopen. In March, the state’s Supreme Court said the casino owners were passing off games as “bingo,” ruling the machines illegal. Located in Shorter, the casino has been shuttered since 2013, when a raid by the state took 1,615 gambling machines and $260,000 in cash.
Despite an Alabama Supreme Court ruling which shut down its electronic bingo operations for nearly three years, the controversial VictoryLand casino reopened Tuesday.
