When two of Rhode Island’s largest public companies resolved their long-running dispute over a 20-year lottery contract early this year, there was one name that kept coming up: Marc A. Crisafulli.
That’s because Crisafulli, an executive vice president at Providence-based Bally’s Corp., was front and center in the casino operator’s opposition to a 20-year contract that the state wanted to award to lottery company International Game Technology, also based in Providence.
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In the end, the legislation that settled the high-powered battle was named after Crisafulli, who was battling cancer earlier in 2021.
The Marc A. Crisafulli Economic Development Act gave IGT a 20-year extension to run the state’s lottery system, while IGT agreed to partner with Bally’s on a $100 million expansion of its casino in Lincoln.
At the bill signing ceremony outside the Statehouse in June, Crisafulli talked about how he was touched that legislators named the measure after him. He said it gave him positive energy in his cancer battle. After a leave of absence to undergo treatment, he returned to work in October.
Crisafulli – once a managing partner of the Providence law firm Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP – oversees Bally’s operations in Rhode Island, including casinos in Lincoln and Tiverton that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars into the state’s coffers annually.
The Rhode Island operation is set to grow. A $100 million expansion at the Lincoln casino – now called Bally’s Twin River Casino Lincoln – got underway in September. When complete in October 2022, the project will add 50,000 square feet to the facility.
