{"id":189879,"date":"2026-04-08T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189879\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:49:10","slug":"judge-recuses-himself-from-metropolitan-park-casino-lawsuit-as-case-is-reassigned-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189879\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge recuses himself from Metropolitan Park casino lawsuit as case is reassigned \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWednesday, April 8, 2026 2:24 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Metropolitan-Park-Hard-Rock-rendering-Queens-New-York-e1760573331482-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Metropolitan Park (courtesy)\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Renee DeLorenzo, QNS\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Nicholas W. Moyne recused himself from overseeing a lawsuit filed by Queens residents against the New York State Gaming Commission on March 20, citing a \u201csocial relationship with a member of respondent\u201d as his reason for recusal on court documentation filed on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit stems from criticisms over the gaming commission\u2019s unanimous decision on Dec. 15 to issue a commercial casino license to the Metropolitan Park casino team, led by Hard Rock International and billionaire Steve Cohen, owner of the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The casino is slated to be built next to Citi Field in Flushing, and preparations for its construction are currently underway.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/04\/judge-recusal-metropolitan-park-casino-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on QNS\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/04\/judge-recusal-metropolitan-park-casino-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/14545\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"QCI-web-220301-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/QCI-web-220301-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, April 8, 2026 2:24 PM Photo:\u00a0Metropolitan Park (courtesy) Renee DeLorenzo, QNS Email, LinkedIn, and more Hon. Nicholas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-189879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}