"Culler says games in the following states are affected: Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, South Dakota, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, Tennessee and Washington, D.C."

My state isn't listed

Eddie Tipton affected so many lives. He was a person in authority and abused that position.

 It will be interesting to watch this class action lawsuit. No one knows where it will end.

There are so many ways to join a class action suit. All they have to do is say they were affected and they'll get a piece of the settlement.

The only persons who's going to benefit from Class Act Suits , will be the Attorney(s) !!!

NOT the people who bought the Tickets !!! 

l doubt it’s that simple TMM. These folks joining this class action lawsuit better have containers of losing stashed away. Simply saying “l played and lost” while Eddie was up to no good, won’t cut it.lf it was that easy, panhandlers  could come forward saying they played the lottery as well, but threw away their tickets when they read “ Sorry, not a winner.” 

LP will probably get at least one new member asking for losing tickets from the states and time framed mentioned.

I just want to see restitution from those two Brothers.  They seem intent and not paying back the judgment against them.

” Eddie affected so many lives.” He probably thinks, not according to him, given that it’s a game of chance.I also wonder how much Culler thinks HE should be getting in this settlement, a million dollars or more? 

l am surprised the courts haven’t  attacked his bank accounts. What are they waiting for?

Good point.  Doesn't the government seize money launderers and drug king pins monies as well as their assets such as houses, boats, airplanes etc.?  Seize and sell!!

I can't recall if it was Culler or not, but wasn't there a Hot Lotto winner right after Tipton "winning" his jackpot? That person would have won the won the money that Tipton tried to get.

You thinking of Larry Dawson rcb- that guy won “ $9 Mil” but said that it “ should have been $ 26 mil” had not Eddie screwed around with a prior drawing. I guess $9 mil is not good enough for Ol Lucky Larry. 

l guess the government does not feel that they were personally gipped by Eddie. They seem to have washed their hands, given that it’s been reported that Eddie has paid hardly anything back thus far.Probably hoping to dig up his stash when he gets released.

Don't be surprised if once the case is settled, the law firm handling the class action suit gets something like $10 Million and each class participant gets $1.05 each.

"Eddie affected so many lives."

Just like when MM and PB draw numbers 94% don't have. Maybe we should all non jackpot winners should sue. Without the melodrama, if any lives were actually affected, the blame should be on the people who hired Eddie and the lottery he worked for. Is the Multi-State Lottery Association responsible for paying all the "affected lives" if the Hexham Investments Trust can't?

Even though the numbers Tipton picked were the only numbers that could win the jackpot, players still can't prove their numbers would win the jackpot had he not rigged the drawings. "Lucky Larry" Dawson won the next jackpot after the fix; wonder if fix affected his live too or how if he wins his suit will affect the class action suit?

*And I understand "affected so many lives" isn't yours. Just thought replying to you post was more fun.

Hilarious Stack. I did a search on this guy Dawson, and it turns out he took the bulk of his $9 mil & expanded his business. I guess when word got out that fast Eddie was doing a " fast one" he figured that he could get a 2nd bite at the lottery apple. Culler on the otherhand spent $63.00 on two games, but somehow interprets his investment covers him for 9 years. You couldnt make this stuff up, even if you tried. You remember that episode where a woman played the penny slot machine & it rang her up that she had won " millions of dollars"- the casino offered her a steak, but she pushed back..

Costco had a class action lawsuit against one of their vendors for LED bulbs.  Had no idea until a check came, it was either for $24 or $48 can't remember, they went by how many you bought.  Now these guys like you said duckman will get $1.05 each if they even win that is.

"I guess $9 mil is not good enough for Ol Lucky Larry."

I'm pretty sure that everybody who doesn't work for the lottery thinks the $16 million that Tipton tried to claim is prize money that the lottery shouldn't be keeping. There's absolutely no doubt that if Tipton didn't have a fraudulent ticket with numbers that wouldn't have come up if he hadn't rigged the game that money would have gone to a different player (or players) in that or a future drawing.

That means there's also absolutely no doubt that Dawson's prize was affected by Tipton. Of course the higher advertised jackpot in subsequent drawings means more tickets would have been sold before Dawson won, so there's a chance that somebody would have won the jackpot before Dawson did. That means that there's a very good chance that he actually benefited from Tipton's scheme by winning a bigger jackpot. OTOH, there's also no disputing that he was the first legitimate jackpot winner after the previous legitimate winner.

So how do you decide what's fair when you know for a fact that Dawson's prize almost certainly wasn't what it should have been, but you've got no way of knowing how much it would have been without Tipton? Maybe the best solution is to multiply that $16 million by the probability that nobody would have won before Dawson if sales had been as high as they would have been. The exact sales volume isn't certain, but they can make a fairly accurate estimate, and for that estimate they'll know almost exactly what the chances of a winner would have been. That might mean Dawson should get almost nothing, or it might be several million. The rest should go to players one way or another.

 Good read Floyd. I for one, seriously doubt Larry will get millions more. He can try, but ultimately the powers that be could turn around & tell Dawson that because of Eddie's machinations, he, larry benefited from that draw.Kinda like those folks who can't hold their liquor, leave the bar, get into an accident & then turn around and blame the bartender, who was only doing his job, by not doing it, for overserving him or her drinks.

* In other words: Everything was great, until it was not so great.

One of the required elements in a lawsuit asking for damages is being able to prove the damages. Dawson's problem is that he can't prove that he would have gotten all the money if it weren't for Tipton. It might be unfair not to give him something, but the law doesn't always do what's fair.

OTOH, all the people who lost in the rigged drawings can prove that their chance of winning was probably reduced to zero (Tipton's scheme allowed a couple of hundred possible combinations, so a few players had a pretty good chance). If they can also prove how much they spent on those drawings then they're able to prove their damages.