Hamilton County might ignore $2.67M stadium payment to Bengals

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(12-09-2017, 03:05 AM)Trademark Wrote: CINCINNATI -- County leaders might skip a $2.67 million payment to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Hamilton County taxpayers are expected to pick up some of the tab for this season's football game-day expenses at Paul Brown Stadium. The bill is due early next year.

The team’s 26-year stadium lease calls for county taxpayers to pay for game clean up and security at the stadium during the final nine years of the deal. The Bengals are supposed to start collecting that payment in early next year, to cover the current season.

But Hamilton County Commission President Todd Portune told WCPO he has no plans of writing that check to the NFL team.

When asked if the Bengals are aware the county intends to ignore the request for payments, Portune said: “I think they know it’s coming.”

http://www.wcpo.com/news/insider/hamilton-county-might-ignore-267m-stadium-payment-to-bengals

"I think they know it's coming." because there was probably an agreement to defer the payments for a fee, or something along those lines, allowing everything he said publicly to be 100% true.  The locality knows damn well they are legally liable for every cent, and if it goes to litigation they will most likely be forced to cover the litigation expenses and damages.  NO politician is dumb enough to do that.  Perhaps in the end it will come out that the team has allowed the payments to be deferred into the down payment on the next stadium provided by the city?