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Amid delay in new lottery policy, repeat winners keep on winningNews Story
It's been a charmed decade for Ali Jaafar. The Watertown man keeps hitting it big on the Massachusetts State Lottery, winning millions of dollars from thousands of scratch tickets. For the past two years, Jaafar has held the title of the state's winningest lottery player. But he is just one of hundreds of individuals who repeatedly cash in on the Massachusetts lottery. The lottery does not know how some of these so-called frequent winners manage to win so often. Many of these players hold
Apr 28, 2018, 10:00 am - Todd - Lottery News

Feds seize gambling site Bodog, indict founderNews Story
The sports gambling site Bodog was shut down and four Canadians indicted, including founder Calvin Ayre, for illegal gambling that generated more than $100 million in winnings, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. The website's domain name was seized Monday and the indictments, which were returned Feb. 22, were unveiled Tuesday in Baltimore, prosecutors said. The indictments follow federal prosecutions last year of three of the biggest websites involved in online poker. More than 75 comp
Feb 29, 2012, 7:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

Florida Scratch Offs - Post Pictures if posibleReply
Did you guys notice the latest news on FL Lotto website ? LOTTERY SECURITY REPORTS LATEST STING RESULTS; MAKES ONE ARREST TALLAHASSEE - This week, law enforcement agents with the Florida Lottery's Division of Security visited 52 retailer locations as part of its on-going Operation Integrity program. Lottery retail locations in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, St. Johns, and Flagler counties were included. As a result of these stings, one arrest was made on charges of Grand Theft (violation o
Jul 18, 2016, 5:26 pm - krissam - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Texas Lottery joins missing seniors programNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission in September joined the newly-opened Silver Alert Network, which assists efforts by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to find missing senior citizens. The Texas Lottery Commission is working in conjunction with the Division of Emergency Management at the DPS, the state agency tasked by Governor Rick Perry with implementing the Amber Alert Network in Texas. The Texas Lottery is now issuing alerts at the 16,000-plus Lottery retail locations on LED screens and
Oct 22, 2007, 8:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

California man claims winning $2.04 billion Powerball lottery ticket was stolen from himNews Story
Individual launches allegations after lottery winner steps forward to claim world's largest jackpot By Kate Northrop An individual has claimed in legal filings that he was the one to purchase the winning lottery ticket for the world-record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot and that the ticket was stolen from him. Another Altadena man named Jose Rivera has launched allegations that Edwin Castro is not the true winner of the $2.04 billion Powerball lottery jackpot just over a week after
Feb 24, 2023, 11:03 am - Todd - Lottery News

"Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland charged with robbing jackpot winners of millionsReply
The lottery winners paid between $75,000 and $200,000 in upfront payments to hire Mr. Kurland and his law firm, according to court papers. Mr. Kurland then charged monthly fees of between $15,000 and $50,000 . After persuading the lottery winners to invest, the four men then spent some of the funds on golf club memberships, yachts, private jets, a Porsche and other luxury cars and shopping sprees at stores like Fendi, prosecutors said. Law enforcement officials had been wiretapping the m
Aug 18, 2020, 9:12 pm - lejardin - Lottery News

Wife questioned in lottery winner deathNews Story
The widow of a West Rogers Park, Illinois, man who died of cyanide poisoning weeks after winning a $1 million lottery jackpot was questioned extensively by Chicago police last month after the medical examiner's office reclassified the death as a homicide, her attorney said on Tuesday. Authorities investigating the death of Urooj Khan also executed a search warrant at the home he had shared with his wife, Shabana Ansari, according to Steven Kozicki, her attorney. Ansari later was interviewed b
Jan 9, 2013, 12:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Federal online gambling legislation clears big hurdleReply
That was not a law either legalizing online gaming or even making it illegal. It was a law that prohibits any kind of banking transaction for financing online gaming. There has never been a USA law ever passed in any way affecting online gaming directly. The feds say that the Wire Act prohibits online gambling, but I personally think that's a big stretch. I think they know it's a stretch, because they have never attempted any kind of law enforcement for anything except sports betting online.
Aug 8, 2010, 1:27 pm - Todd - Lottery News

travel to buy lottery ticketsReply
The Rolling Stones played here about a year ago, and a bunch of dumbasses bought up blocks of tickets thinking they could rip off their fellow concert-goers by selling them at double the price in the parking lot before the concert. Turns out, TRS aren't as popular as they used to be, and the concert was far from a sell-out and these dumbasses lost their azzes on the deal. lol Anyway, the local news did a live remote from the concert site and you could see dozens of people in the background
Aug 25, 2007, 6:56 pm - LuckyLilly - Lottery Discussion Forum

Arkansas Lottery director hires core management staffNews Story
Outcry over high salaries; Director defends Ernie Passailaigue, who started his job two weeks ago as executive director of the Arkansas Lottery Commission, has been steadily hiring employees to fill core management positions, while defending the high salaries he is giving the new staff. Before the hiring commenced, a legislative committee signed off ealier this month on the newly hired lottery chief's plan to pay his top deputies more than $200,000 each. Passailaigue asked legislators t
Jul 15, 2009, 11:53 am - Todd - Lottery News