Lansing Casino Proposal Investors Named

Here, via Pechanga.

From the article:

Early on in the meeting, Lansing City Council President Brian Jeffries asked City Attorney Brig Smith for more information regarding the investors in Lansing Future LLC, the developer contracted by the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians to finance the casino.

“I have an issue in terms of knowing who the developer is,” Jeffries said.

Smith then introduced Bill Martines, managing director of Lansing Future LLC, who assured the committee that his group wasn’t intentionally trying to cloak itself in secrecy, and listed every investor in Lansing Future.

Besides Martines, president of All Day Interactive, the other investors in the group are Jerry Campbell, CEO of HomeBancorp; Robert Liggett, Jr., owner of the Big Boy Restaurant chain; John Krasula of Decision Consultants; Winfield Cooper, a Flint-based commercial mortgage broker; Mike Garavaglia, a special counsel to Mortgage Investors Corp., and The Sovereignty Group, comprised of Lansing-based lawyer Richard McLellan and Bill Cross Jr.

McLellan joined The Sovereignty Group two weeks ago, after telling media he was not involved in Lansing Future or the casino project. He was not involved in the group until after he made the comments, he said.