Jay Z Tried to Use Beyonce to Sway Casino Deal

This week a Jay Z backed group was denied permission to open a casino in Times Square [click here if you missed that].

Apparently Jay tried to use meeting Beyoncé to sway one of the voters...

From Variety

Early on, the Times Square group approached State Senator Liz Krueger. She may have been a die-hard gambling opponent—“I voted against bingo in church basements,” she once told me—but she controlled one of the six votes on the Times Square CAC. In a Zoom meeting, she said, the casino team asked her if she wanted to meet Jay-Z. “Why? I don’t like his music particularly,” she recalled saying. “They’re like, ‘You don’t want to meet Jay-Z? Well, you know who he’s married to?’”

She didn’t meet Beyonce, nor did she get together with Mr. Carter—not even when Jay-Z went up to the State Capitol in Albany this May.

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