Gibson had an agreement with Hard Rock for it to operate the planned $125 million casino there, but the state commission voted in June against renewing the casino license for Gibson’s company because it hadn’t hired an executive team or secured full financing after more than a year. State officials forced Spectacle last year to give up ownership of that project to Terre Haute businessman Greg Gibson. The Spectacle investigation has also snarled plans for Terre Haute to become the state’s first new community to get a casino since 2008. Right out of the gate, we felt something. Its 202.2 million drop this year is more than all Illinois casinos combined by nearly 40 million.

Ratcliff has denied wrongdoing and hasn’t been charged by federal authorities in the campaign financing case. To wit, the 6.7 million in exclusively baccarat revenue for July would have led the state in overall table games revenue and was more than half of Hard Rock’s 11.9 million total table games revenue. State officials have also alleged that Ratcliff continued exerting control over Spectacle in violation of state orders, wrongly funneled nearly $1 million in casino company money into his own horse race wagering account and made improper job offers to government lobbyists. The gaming commission has said Ratcliff was involved in that scheme, citing an email from a Ratcliff employee and his electronic calendar about an April 2015 meeting at Indianapolis International Airport with a Virginia political consultant who was sentenced last year on federal fraud charges.