The state’s gaming enforcement agency is banning electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc. from doing business with any casinos in New Jersey.The state’s gaming enforcement agency is banning electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc. from doing business with any casinos in New Jersey.



For the next five years, the automaker will not be allowed to do business with any of the state’s casinos and any person representing a casino, according to a Nov. 28, 2018 letter from the Division of Gaming Enforcement.



Any existing agreements were terminated and Tesla was not among an approved vendor list dated Jan. 6.



Tesla has seven charging stations between the Golden Nugget Atlantic City Hotel, Casino & Marina and the Borgata.



DGE Director David Rubeck alleged in the letter that he and the agency had been given the runaround by Tesla when pressing them to comply with the regulations of a vendor registration form the Tesla dealership in King of Prussia, Pa. filed with the state in April 2016.



The DGE attempted to obtain applicant information on May 2018 from Jason Kim, an ownership advisor at Tesla, only to find out he no longer worked for the dealership.



The agency was told to reach out to Tesla’s Cherry Hill dealership, after which Stacy Sabo, the branch manager, indicated Tesla was not interested in moving ahead with the application.



“When you stated that the … application should be cancelled, you were advised that withdrawal requests were required to be in writing, but you refused and ended the call,” Rubeck wrote to Sabo.



“When you were contacted again, you claimed the division was harassing you, insisted that you not be contacted again and ended the call,” Rubeck continued.



Rubeck said Tesla did not have any transactions with Atlantic City casinos within the past year, which factored into the ban.



Representatives from Tesla and the DGE did not return requests for comment.

