Hopes dashed that the state would clear the way for him to sell his casino by a Friday deadline, Andy Sanborn has moved to keep the clock running in hopes he can still close a deal. The state is objecting, arguing that Sanborn shouldn’t have gotten his latest extension in the first place.

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In a filing Friday, Senior Attorney General Jessica King argued the judge overseeing the fate of Sanborn’s license erred in giving Sanborn more time to sell after determining he didn’t have the authority to do so. The legal route he took to get there is “seemingly at odds with that determination,” King wrote.

The latest issue in the state’s 13-month effort to revoke Sanborn’s gaming license over alleged pandemic aid fraud centers on the state’s “suitability” review of Sanborn’s unidentified buyer, a step Sanborn argues is taking longer than the state indicated.