MGM Empire City President/COO Uri Clinton resigns

Uri Clinton has resigned as president and chief operating officer of MGM Empire City in Yonkers, less than a year after taking the job.

In addition to overseeing Empire City, which MGM Resorts International acquired along with Yonkers Raceway in 2018 for $850 million, Clinton was involved with MGM”™s attempts to build a $675 million casino in Bridgeport”™s Steelpointe Harbor.

MGM has also filed a federal lawsuit against the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes”™ efforts to build a casino in East Windsor, Connecticut, which would ostensibly pose a threat to the nearby MGM Springfield in Massachusetts, which opened in 2018.

Clinton was heavily involved with MGM”™s efforts to convince lawmakers to allow Empire City to introduce table games prior to the scheduled 2023 lifting of a moratorium on new casinos in New York State.

MGM did not provide details about Clinton”™s resignation, instead saying only that he would remain with the company as a consultant.