"as locals argued about how many jobs, cars, and people the project would bring to the neighborhood, a new number began to circulate. "Let me give you one other figure that I know many people here are very familiar with today, especially the pro-casino side, and that is $80," said Malik Hassan, executive director of MAS Brooklyn, at the September 10 meeting. "$80 is the amount of money the pro-casino side is being paid.""
"In audio recorded by Brooklynite Nat Towsen and first released by activist group Save Coney Island, two people discuss what appears to be a plan to get paid after the hearing. "After they speak a couple of words, a couple of people speak, then we're going to meet at Nathan's," a man says on the recording. "Just hang in there man, you're going to get paid.""
At a public hearing on the proposed Coney Island casino, attendees alleged that some pro-casino speakers were being paid $80 to testify. Malik Hassan, executive director of MAS Brooklyn, stated the $80 figure at the September 10 meeting. An audio recording captured people discussing payment after the hearing and planning to meet at Nathan's to receive money. Brooklynite Nat Towsen recorded the conversation while waiting to testify and described overhearing talk about payment and questions about when payments would occur. Activist group Save Coney Island first released the recording. The hearing crowd was reportedly split for and against the casino.
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