The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe paid Taunton $2.4 million on Wednesday — which means the tribe is now current on its annual payments to the city and no longer owes money from missing payments that started in 2021.
Currently, the tribe is constructing an addition to its casino Welcome Center in Taunton, which contains 50 slot machines, pictures taken by the Gazette show. Brian Weeden, the Chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, told the Gazette in a statement that “we’re adding additional space to the Welcome Center to provide even more opportunities for entertainment, additional artifacts and new material on our culture.”
The $2.4 million was transferred to Taunton from Genting, a Malaysian company that had previously lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the tribe.
