Alabama’s VictoryLand Opens Doors Again

Play Now at Lion Slots Casino
Lion Slots features interactive slot machines called i-Slots.

Play Now at Superslots Casino
New players voted this site the most exciting casino online.

Play Now at Golden Casino
Golden Casino is the most trusted online gambling site on the internet.

Your Ad Here?

Alabama’s largest casino reopened Friday, after a judge ruled that governor Bob Riley’s anti-gambling task force could not raid the gambling hall or seize any of its 6,400 electronic bingo machines.

The doors to VictoryLand, about 20 miles east of Montgomery, opened as owner Milton McGregor gambled that the court order and his surrender of the facility’s liquor license would keep the governor at bay.

VictoryLand on Feb. 1 when more than 100 law enforcement officers prepared for a raid, which ultimately was called off.

Riley says that bingo machines are Vegas-style slots and are illegal in Alabama. The governor and his gambling task force have forced the shut down nearly all the state’s 30 casinos.

Circuit Judge Tom Young of Alexander City, whose jurisdiction includes Macon County, where VictoryLand sits, issued a temporary restraining order saying that the governor’s task force doesn’t have authority in Macon County because it’s commander, John Tyson, is Mobile County’s district attorney.

For now VictoryLand is up and running, however, Tyson says the fight is not over.

“This order is a poster child for corruption,” Tyson said. “It attempts to provide protection for all of the illegal casinos in Alabama.”

Related posts:

  1. Alabama AG Assumes Control Of Gambling Task Force
  2. Slot Casino Shutdown As A Message To Governor
  3. Alabama Governor Supports Casino Workers
  4. Alabama Casino re-opens Without Illegal Slots
  5. Task Force Sends Bingo Machines To State Line