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Zuniga Named To Mass. Casino Commission

BOSTON (AP) — State Treasurer Steven Grossman has named Enrique Zuniga to the commission that will oversee the state's casino gambling law.

Zuniga is the third member to be appointed to the five-member panel, which will have broad powers to select bidders for resort casino licenses and regulate the gaming industry in Massachusetts.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Bernice Corpuz reports

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He's currently the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Pollution Abatement Trust and has previously served in management positions with Ernst & Young and the Boston Housing Authority.

Gov. Deval Patrick previously named Steven Crosby, a UMass-Boston professor and former state official, to chair the commission.

Gayle Cameron, a former New Jersey state police investigator, was named to the commission by Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Patrick, Grossman and Coakley will jointly name the final two members of the panel.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.

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