For The Times

INDIANAPOLIS | East Chicago Second Century, Inc. (Second Century) needs to provide an accounting of $16 million it has received over 10-years announced Attorney General Steve Carter today in a news release.

Carter has filed a lawsuit seeking a court-ordered accounting from the for-profit organization and says a public charitable trust should be established to ensure gambling revenue is being utilized for the public's benefit.

"Riverboat gambling in Indiana was established to help communities with economic growth," Carter said. "I want to know, and the public deserves to know, 'Where did the $16 million go?'." Citizens living with a casino in their own back yard, promised to receive economic development from the casino by the legislature, have been denied an accounting or proof of these expenditures."

Read more in Friday's edition of The Times.