A nearly yearlong battle over a lucrative lottery contract has landed the state’s gaming agency in hot water with the Maryland Board of Contract Appeals.
The gaming agency was sanctioned for repeatedly ignoring orders for records, the board said. A 16-page decision itemizes a lengthy list of ways the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency and its lawyers avoided turning over records to lawyers for Scientific Games Inc.
“Every step of the way, Respondent [the lottery agency] threw up roadblocks to Appellant’s right to discovery, obstructing access to documents to which Appellant was entitled but laying blame of noncompliance and delay at the feet of everyone else but the MLGCA — whether it be the Governor’s Office, DoIT [the Department of Information Technology], Appellant or even this Board,” the decision said.
“To add insult to injury, Respondent continued to pay lip service to the importance of a speedy resolution of the case despite failing to complete its long-overdue document production,” it said.
The board said it will now automatically assume that all documents withheld or not produced are favorable to the claims made by Scientific Games.
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