He was joined by part-time commissioners Kenneth MacDonald, a Haddonfield car dealer Red Bank attorney Prospero DeBona Albert W. Byrne named Essex County Prosecutor Joseph P. It was a humble beginning for an agency that would grow to regulate a multi-billion dollar industry. When the Casino Control Commission was created in 1977, it checked into the Inn of Trenton and set up shop in two rooms. A Brief History of the Casino Control Commission
