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Why it is important to remain anonymous
This is undoubtedly one of the most important posts that you will ever see at Lottery Post, and as someone who has posted on here for years, I honestly suggest that you read this very carefully! For months, I thought about what I would do if I won the lottery, and what my life would be like. I thought about where I would want to buy my tickets. Sometimes, I would think about being anonymous. Sometimes, I would think about whether to hold a news conference if I couldn't be anonymous i
Mar 2, 2007, 11:58 am - rundown99 - Lottery Discussion Forum

A History of Lottery Scamsters
With permission of Gail Howard and NY Lotto News, submitted by El-Ho. This article was published on 20 September in NY Lotto News. A History of Lottery Scamsters by Gail Howard An email I received last week brought rushing back bad memories of people I had trusted who deceived me and my readers. Randy Miller of Lockport, New York, wrote: Hi Gail, I received an interesting $100 lottery refund check yesterday from a class action lawsuit. It was started about 10 years ago and it
Sep 23, 2006, 11:50 am - hosni - Lottery Discussion Forum

Texas lottery raises concerns over GTECH's practices, ethicsNews Story
Lottery giant's merger with Lottomatica requires that Texas agree to keep its contract with the company GTECH Holding Corp.'s stock plummeted as much as 14 percent yesterday morning before rebounding after the Texas Lottery Commission and the Texas Department of Public Safety raised concerns about the company's business practices and ethical integrity. Investors, anticipating that Texas might adversely impact GTECH's pending $4.8-billion acquisition by Italy's Lottomatica SpA, sold off so
Jul 21, 2006, 10:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery in courtNews Story
According to N.C. constitution, games are a tax, former justice says Just 10 days before the first scratch-off tickets go on sale in North Carolina, lawyers argued yesterday about whether legislators followed proper procedure when they adopted a state lottery last year, and they asked a judge to block the lottery's start March 30. Ultimately, the decision could come down to whether the lottery is considered a tax. Lottery opponents from both the left and the right filed suit last year a
Mar 21, 2006, 6:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery finally gets a logoNews Story
It may not be pretty, but at least the North Carolina Lottery finally has adopted a symbol to represent itself. The state's lottery logo will reflect the character of the state, not a generic burst of fireworks. At a commission meeting last week, Tom Shaheen, the lottery's executive director, presented a proposed logo with a flourish, removing a sheet from a logo perched on an easel - but that clearly puzzled some commissioners. After scrapping the failed attempt, officials today approved
Feb 22, 2006, 11:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. lottery is quickly piling up a lot of dirty laundryNews Story
Editorial By Asheville Citizen-Times published February 19, 2006 The North Carolina Lottery may bring extra money into state coffers, but the questionable ethics surrounding its inception and the controversies it continues to generate raise serious questions about whether the cost outweighs the value. Last week two new conflicts presented themselves. The first confirms the worst suspicions of many lottery opponents and the fears of some lottery supporters. The second is a slap in the face
Feb 20, 2006, 8:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

California Lottery fixes major problem with Derby gameNews Story
Computerized lottery drawings the culprit in flawed results Dave Andres, an insurance underwriter from Altadena, California, thought he alone was in the habit of scanning hundreds of winning numbers in the lottery's least-popular game, Daily Derby. He assumed no one else noticed that for 100 days running this winter, none of the winning times in the horse race-themed game had numbers that were repeated. He knew that players had to not only pick the right horses but also the last three d
May 13, 2005, 10:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

One ticket sold in California wins $1.08 billion Powerball jackpotNews Story
6th-largest lottery jackpot in history By Todd Northrop For the second time in less than a year, someone in California won a lottery jackpot worth more than $1 billion. After a run of 36 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 37th drawing of the multi-state Powerball game produced a single $1.0798 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in California matched all five numbers plus the Powerball. The whopping jackpot is the sixth-largest the world has ever seen, and
Jul 20, 2023, 7:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

New York seizes $20 million in lottery prizes from people on public assistanceNews Story
New York state has reclaimed nearly $20 million in lottery prizes since 2013 from winners who had received public assistance in the last 10 years. The little-known program, one of the toughest of its kind in the country, has grabbed back prizes from an estimated 30,000 winners in the last four years. At least six other states have similar programs, but New York is the only state that seizes prizes of those on public assistance, experts said. Other programs take back unpaid child support pa
Jul 5, 2017, 9:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Seminoles Hard Rock CasinoReply
thanks to truesee More news on Tribal Casino Soverinty plus IRS Appearently Tribe refuses to render to Caeser their fair share of wampum for US taxes EddessaKnight ~ Miccosukee tribe launches counterattack against IRS The Miccosukee Tribe has launched a counterattack against the IRS, saying that millions of dollars in gambling profits distributed to members are not subject to federal income taxes. JAY WEAVER Miami Herald In a legal showdown with the IR
Aug 2, 2010, 4:24 pm - eddessaknight - Gaming Forum