Snyder Gets His Way with Gambling Board Tribal Council Replaces Redeye

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Seneca Nation President Barry E. Snyder Sr. was driven out as chairman of Seneca Gaming Corp. six months ago, but it is clear from this week's upheaval at the gambling company's headquarters in Niagara Falls that Snyder hasn't lost his power.

Snyder on Friday got the Tribal Council to replace the majority of the Seneca Gaming Board, including its chairman, Cochise Redeye, who earlier had fired Snyder ally Rajat Shah from his $750,000 job as lawyer for the gambling operation.

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Snyder Gets His Way with Gambling Board Tribal Council Replaces Redeye

"He's a better politician than I am," Redeye said of Snyder after the Tribal Council declined to rename him to the Gaming Board. "But I'm not a politician."

"I knew he would use everything in his arsenal to get the Tribal Council to do this," Redeye said. "That'...

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