The dispute between Rick Heidner and Dan Fischer began in November 2018, with what at the time appeared to be a routine merger in Illinois’ video poker business. Since then, potentially damaging evidence against both sides has tumbled out of court papers and into the hands of Gaming Board investigators.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.