Teachers' pension plan funds privatization of PA lottery
Gov. Corbett used Gov. Rendell's investment bank to hire a British company owned by Canadians to convince Pennsylvanians to gamble more
Canada's Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan put up the $150 million cash and $50 million in credit to back UK-based Camelot Global Services that enabled Camelot to drive competing bidders Gtech and Tatts out of the picture.
If Republican Pa. Gov. Corbett is able to clinch the deal (he still needs Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane's support), Camelot and Corbett are pledged to increase the lottery's contribution to tax breaks for seniors and other state programs, add workers, and turn a profit for the operator.
To make it all work, all they'll need to do is convince a lot more Pennsylvanians to play the numbers. Camelot's Alex Kovachs tells more in my column in the Sunday Inquirer here.
(A previous version wrongly attributed to Kovachs the statement that the company's current cash flow would fund the $150 million. It's Ontario Teachers' money, Camelot spokeswoman Laura Pearson confirms.)
Joseph N. DiStefano | Columnist
Joseph N. DiStefano | Columnist
Joseph N. DiStefano | Columnist
Joseph N. DiStefano | Columnist
Joseph N. DiStefano | Columnist
Joseph N. DiStefano | Columnist
Joseph N. DiStefano | Columnist
Karen Tumulty, Matthew Choi, and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post
























