The National Indian Gaming Commission is expected to announce the 2017 gross gaming revenues for the Indian gaming industry on June 26—and will likely also announce when NIGC Chairman Jonodev Osceola Chaudhuri will step down.
The event will be held at NIGC HQ in Washington D.C. and will be broadcast and accessible by phone.
This is an annual event. Last year the 2016 revenues were announced to be $31.2 billion, a 4.4 percent increase over the previous year.
Chaudhuri, who has held the chairman’s position for three years, is expected to leave. He held an “exit interview” in May with Indian Country Today, in which he said he expected to leave the commission this summer.
His replacement would be named by President Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate while the other two members of the commission would be named by the Department of the Interior. During Trump’s tenure he has made several controversial Indian-related appointments, such as the director of the Indian Health Service, who withdrew, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, whose nominee, Tara Sweeney, has still not been approved.
When Chaudhuri steps down that would leave Vice Chairman Kathryn Isom-Clause and associate commissioner E. Sequoyah Simermeyer. The three-member panel does not require a full complement to enact business.
