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Review: Vultures feast on desperate lottery winnersNews Story
Money for Nothing is a glimpse into a seedy business few will ever encounter. Edward Ugel writes about the trade of preying on bottomed-out lottery winners, crazy for cash to meet their growing debts, waiting for their next annual annuity check to arrive from the state coffers. His tale is a colorfully written account by a self-proclaimed overweight, chain-smoking, Krispy Kreme doughnut-eating, fanatical gambler. For just shy of a decade starting in the late 1990s, Ugel says he worked i
Sep 24, 2007, 11:05 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner: 'Kind of exciting, I guess'News Story
Dorothy Elliott stays low-key. She just won the lottery $1,000 a week for the rest of her life. But when the 68-year-old Norfolk resident met with the media this morning at the 7-Eleven store where she bought the fateful Win For Life ticket, she seemed completely unfazed by her good fortune. When I looked at the numbers in the paper, I had to read them a couple of times to make sure they matched, she said. It was kind of exciting, I guess. In the Win for Life drawing on June 13, t
Jun 20, 2007, 11:20 am - Lottery News