editorial
The state’s top economic development official pitched the benefits of resort casinos to Massachusetts lawmakers at the same time he owned stock in two Las Vegas gambling companies that want to build casinos in Massachusetts. If that doesn’t look like a conflict of interest, what does? But Gregory Bialecki, the secretary of housing and economic development, decided on his own that it did not. He sold the stock only after the Globe raised questions about it.
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