Court: Police can collect $1M lottery prize

If the money was gotten illegally, it was gotten illegally from the Lottery and should be given back to them and added to prizes won by the people who provided that money in the first place - the lottery players.

The stupidest thing ever allowed was when they gave Police Departments the right to confiscate money and property for their own use.

Officer Krupke: "Hey, I really like your car! Mind if I search it?"

bought with a dead woman's credit card

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If the withdrawl from the dead persons credit card did not create an overdraft or denied payment the ticket and winnings belongs to the deceased persons estate.

When were you able to buy tickets with credit cards?

No retailer is allowed to accept anything but cash for lotto purchases. Must have been an uniformed or careless clerk.   

I thought that was strange too when I first read it because in my state you have to buy tickets with cash. I just assumed that maybe in that state you could do it. If indeed you can't then that would be a good defense against the loss of the winnings.

Probably used the card at an ATM machine.

This whole paragraph doesn't seem right..

Oregon allows police to keep money seized in criminal activity. The winnings were awarded to the police when Christina Elizabeth Goodenow, 45, pleaded no contest to using the card that belonged to her boyfriend's mother said.

You aren't suppose to be able to buy lottery tix with cc'ds in RI... but there are some clerks that let you.  I have no idea how that works out but I suppose that they balance out when they close out their drawers at the end of their shifts maybe?

In some states You can use your debit card as long as you enter your PIN

I have purchased tickets using a credit card,  I fill up with gas grab a few items plus a scratcher and pay with a

credit or debit card, no problems.   The woman was a thief and should have to repay all the money back to the

lottery and the credit card company should get back the dollar or however much the ticket cost and the police

should get a pat on the back for catching the thief even though it took them quite a while.  The police should

not get to keep anything because they are being paid through our taxes.   We got to start electing people who

care about this country before it's too late. 

RL

DCF

"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world." Marilyn Monroe

My wife would agree, the problem is that I am beginning to thein the right

pair might not exist.  She looks, she buys, she throws them in the closet.

I am going to suggest she click her heels three times at the store before

she buys them. 

RL

Be glad she throws them in the closet, mine leaves em all over the house,

I always tripping over em.

LOL.... my husband can relate with you RL- some women love chocolate some women love shoes ...

LOL... haymaker I once bought some shoes & was trying to sneak them in the house I left the in the trunk of my car not thinking my hubby would ever look there.... well he did he told me I need an intervention

It takes a while sometimes, dallas, but eventually we catch on to the hiding stuff in the trunk routine, lol.