Corbett Expected To Resubmit Pa. Lottery Deal

According to a top law maker, Gov. Tom Corbett plans to ask Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office to reverse its rejection of a contract with a British firm to manage the $3.5 billion Pennsylvania Lottery.

On Tuesday Senate President Pro Tempore (temp or eh) Joe Scarnati said administration officials told him Monday that they are making changes in the contract with London-based Camelot Global Services that Kane rejected last month over concerns that parts of it contravene the state constitution or violate state law.
Scarnati says the changes are in preparation to resubmit it for her approval.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Revenue, which oversees the lottery, declined comment, except to say that certain changes to the contract would not trigger the need for a new round of bidding. The spokeswoman, Elizabeth Brassell, said the Corbett administration would say more later this week, once it announces its next steps.

The administration has a Saturday deadline to appeal Kane's decision in court.