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Missouri shuts down illegal lottery Web siteNews Story
A young man from Festus, Missouri set up his own online lottery and named it after a TV show. He called his Web site pimpmyride.com. Pimp My Ride is a show on MTV. There's no connection between the show and the lottery.The lottery Web site invited people to enter the contest for a $2 fee. The winner of a random drawing was to get $20,000 to customize, or pimp out, their vehicle.The site drew entries from across the country. Some people entered as many as 100 times.According to court record
Jul 29, 2004, 1:30 pm - Lottery News

NY Court Says Video Lottery Games UnconstitutionalNews Story
Video lottery games at New York State racetracks are illegal, a panel of state judges ruled on Wednesday, dealing a setback to Gov. George Pataki, who is counting on revenue from the terminals to help fund education.The judges' ruling found that a part of the law authorizing the terminals was unconstitutional because it earmarks a portion of revenues to horsebreeders and for larger racetrack purses. The law requires that the money be allocated exclusively for education, the court said.However, a
Jul 7, 2004, 5:50 pm - Lottery News

Jamaica Lottery RecoversNews Story
Supreme Ventures Ltd., Jamaica's sole lottery company, has seen a substantial recovery in its business since the Government decided to lift the tax it had imposed on winnings last year.The company is also looking forward to expanding its business over the next 12 months and this will include the introduction of a third daily Cash Pot draw, a Caribbean Pin Ball Lotto and several new instant win games, better known as Scratchers.Bryan George, president of Supreme Ventures who made the announcement
Jun 30, 2004, 7:59 am - Lottery News

Playing Lottery 'not gambling'News Story
Pick 6 and Jersey Cash 5 were among the topics highlighted at the Millville, NJ's chamber of commerce luncheon meeting on Tuesday.The luncheon's featured speaker was Jaimee Gilmartin, public information officer for the New Jersey Lottery.She described how the contest enjoyed by millions benefits the state.The state Lottery, Gilmartin said, has since its 1970 inception provided more than $13.1 billion to programs and institutions that directly serve New Jerseyans.In 2003, 36 percent of Lottery re
Jun 10, 2004, 7:31 am - Lottery News

Pennsylvania Lottery to enforce ID checkNews Story
The Pennsylvania Lottery will announce a new program this morning in Harrisburg designed to enforce age limits on lottery ticket sales.Lottery ticket ID checks will be added to those checks already in place at Pennsylvania stores to verify IDs on people buying beer and cigarettes. A special machine reads the magnetic strip on the back of a driver's license.The owner of Old Forge Beverage in Lackawanna County thinks adding checks for lottery tickets is a good idea. It's going to enhance it, act
May 12, 2004, 6:38 am - Lottery News

Michigan authorities break up private lottery, seize $2.2 millionNews Story
Authorities have seized $2.2 million and broken up a private lottery that they say mimicked the Michigan State Lottery but paid off significantly more money for matching winning numbers.Operating from modest homes in Detroit and nearby Oak Park, the family business appears to have roots going back 30 years, the Wayne County sheriff's department and prosecutor's office announced Friday. Numbers operations have been around for several decades before the lottery, but this is the largest we have ser
Apr 9, 2004, 9:53 am - Lottery News

Autopsy: Minnesota lottery director died of overdoseNews Story
The longtime director of the Minnesota State Lottery, who committed suicide in January during a legislative review of the lottery's operations, died from an overdose of pain medication, a final autopsy report found.Earlier reports had said he died of hypothermia in freezing weather after cutting his wrists.Toxicology tests show that George Andersen took a fatal dose of hydrocodone, more commonly known as Vicodin, the medical examiner's office said Thursday.Andersen, 53, was found lying outside h
Mar 26, 2004, 8:39 am - Lottery News

GTECH says not linked to scandal in BrazilNews Story
A fired government aide met with executives from GTECH's Brazilian unit but was not involved in negotiations West Greenwich, Rhode Island-based GTECH Holdings Corp., the world's biggest supplier of online lottery systems, said yesterday a Brazilian government aide who was fired amid a probe of campaign finance allegations wasn't involved in extending the company's contract in the country.Waldomiro Diniz met with two executives from the company's Brazilian unit last year to discuss a contract dis
Feb 25, 2004, 4:33 am - Lottery News

Counterfeit lottery tickets in TennesseeNews Story
The Tennessee Attorney Generals Office is working with the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) to determine how to deal with illegal tickets being circulated throughout Tennessee.TELC CEO Rebecca Paul said she first heard about the problem from victims of the scam who wanted the TELC to refund their money.They look like a lottery ticket, they scratch like a lottery ticket, but they are a phone card, Paul said, adding some victims reported that when they asked a retailer for lottery ti
Feb 3, 2004, 5:35 am - Lottery News

Jamaica scales back lottery tax planNews Story
Only lottery winnings over $15,000 to be taxedThe Jamaica givernment yesterday announced a $15,000 threshold on lottery winnings, before the 15 per cent tax is applied, confirming Sunday's lead story in the Observer.Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies admitted at a post-Cabinet news briefing at Jamaica House that the decision to tax winnings had led to a fall-off in sales of the popular Cash Pot game run by Supreme Ventures, while fuelling underground gaming.Cash Pot sales, which generated $970 mi
Dec 16, 2003, 5:27 am - Lottery News