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Powerball lottery jackpot makes Iowa historyNews Story
$241 million Powerball ticket is bought at Cedar Rapids Hy-Vee Winners might be Quaker Oats workers Will the winner or winners of the biggest lottery jackpot in Iowa history please step forward? Cedar Rapids residents were busy speculating Thursday on the identities of possible lucky ticket holders after the Iowa Lottery announced that a single ticket sold at a Hy-Vee grocery store there was the sole winner of a $241 million jackpot in Wednesday night's multi-state Powerball drawing. No
Jun 15, 2012, 8:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

what is your thoughts on randomness is there structure even in chaos?Reply
A legal way for them to cheat. Its true. State lotteries are not honest. If they were they would run them as I explained above. I had a friend who worked at the lottery and said saw them run the machine 20 times till they got the number they wanted. Then would post those numbers as the winning numbers. You can not trust any business who does not want you to see what their doing and just wants you to openly trust them. The governor is the one who puts the 5 commisioners in place in each state lot
Apr 23, 2012, 12:31 am - Scientistman - Lottery Discussion Forum

Jury awards jailed illegal alien $750,000 lottery ticketReply
@ Sully16, Why yes I agree, lets be real. First of all your only post is in defense of people who break our laws, and your from Nevada, hmmmm, Are you here illegally ? No but none of your business. I m AMERICAN. It s not the only post, it s the first one which could be on any topic I m sure you agree. Lets be real, Do you pay taxes ? Yes. More than you (fact). Because anyone who is getting their paycheck chopped to pieces is sick of the cost involved with illegals. I b
Mar 20, 2012, 6:30 am - lincolnAbe - Lottery News

Jury awards jailed illegal alien $750,000 lottery ticketNews Story
After deliberating only 35 minutes Thursday, a Houston County jury awarded ownership of a $750,000 lottery ticket to an illegal alien who claimed he was taken advantage of by the man he had worked for as a day laborer. Jose Antonio Tony Cua-Toc, 27, a native of Guatemala who entered the country illegally in 2000, had filed a lawsuit against Erick Cervantes, a Fort Valley business owner who claimed the winning Jingle Jumbo Bucks lottery ticket from Georgia lottery officials. (See Illegal al
Mar 14, 2012, 8:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Surprise! Winner of $34.5M Lotto jackpot is not estranged husbandNews Story
A Shelbyville man hits a $34.5 million lottery jackpot but then takes pains to hide it from his estranged wife by claiming it covertly. It was a made-for-TV story that turned out to be too good to be true. The wife of the purported winner of the Hoosier Lotto's latest jackpot made clear in a local TV interview last week that she wanted her share. And it even took on a legal dimension this week, when a Shelby County court entered the fray, ordering the husband not to spend a dime. But th
Mar 2, 2012, 6:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery tries to recover $12.5M insider winNews Story
Chung family created 'spider web' of properties, bank accounts More than seven years after a Toronto-area woman cashed in a stolen $12.5 million Lotto Super 7 ticket, Ontario's lottery corporation is trying to recoup the money, but the lengthy wait may have cost the Crown agency. CBC News has learned that the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) filed a lawsuit in March against the woman who claimed the ticket, Kathleen Chung, and her family and associated companies for deliberatel
Nov 15, 2011, 8:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Professional lottery player wins tax disputeNews Story
Big winnings, tiny taxes Several times a week, Clarance W. Jones does something most people can only dream of: He cashes in bunches of winning lottery tickets. And even better, he has found a way to pay barely any taxes on the massive take. Over the past decade, the 73-year-old from Lynn has redeemed more than 10,000 tickets from the state lottery more than any other person worth a total of more than $18 million. He has also long fought efforts by the state to collect considerable ta
Nov 5, 2011, 9:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

D.C. continues rollout of online gamblingNews Story
The bright glass-and-copper library on Benning Road NE just beyond the Anacostia River opened last year as an anchor for redevelopment and a refuge for the mind. Now, District officials are deciding whether they should use the gleaming outpost in a depressed section of the city for another pioneering purpose: as a gateway to online gambling and the promise of millions of dollars in government revenue. The scramble is on to launch an online casino in the District, which is the first jurisdi
Jun 30, 2011, 8:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

Florida lawmakers pushing for more, bigger casinosNews Story
Seminoles and pari-mutuels say they'll fight plan Two state senators announced Friday that they have filed legislation that would allow five Las Vegas-style casino hotels in Florida, spaced across the state. Dennis Jones, R-Seminole, and Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, announced the news via a release Friday. Jones is chair and Sachs is vice chair of the Senate Regulated Industries Committee, which gambling falls under. The legislation would authorize what Jones calls one destination resor
Mar 7, 2011, 9:57 am - Todd - Lottery News

I bought an entire book of $20 GA tickets - $3,000,000 Taxes PaidReply
As many of you have read, I HAD come to the conclusion that the lottery was in fact random, but now I am forced to eat my own words. I am currently in the process of reading this story on LP: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/227079, in which a statistician supposedly breaks the code to scratch offs. Given I have not finished reading it, it is very interesting so far. One FACT that we all tend to overlook is that the scratch lottery CANNOT truly be random, it only appears that way. The lottery MU
Feb 2, 2011, 8:21 pm - CarHauler - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum