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CT Lottery all-in on sports betting in stateNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery is making a big push to include sports betting across the state. Sports betting is a top priority for this year's General Assembly session and Governor Lamont is on board with the concept. One year after a big blunder with a special New Year's super draw game in 2018, which has been attributed to human error, the new president and CEO of the Connecticut Lottery is touting that last budget year, the lottery games made $345 million for the state and gave out about $80
Jan 17, 2019, 8:13 pm - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery considering switch to computerized drawingsNews Story
Apparently new CEO looking to make things even worse at beleaguered lottery By Jon Lender The Connecticut Lottery Corp. (CLC) is quietly examining possible changes to the drawing procedures by which it selects winning numbers in its various games from the daily Play 3 game on up and one option under consideration is to discontinue live TV drawings that have been broadcast on local stations since 1977. Another option could be that, in addition to taking the drawings off TV, the lottery w
Dec 30, 2018, 10:04 am - Lottery News

Mom finds late son's name on lottery ticket, wins $10,000News Story
A Connecticut woman is $10,000 richer after winning on a lottery ticket that she said was a tribute to her late son. Amy Johansson of Branford, Connecticut, said she decided to buy a couple of CT Lottery $100,000 Cashword 9 scratch tickets on Tuesday. She said she scratched off the your letters box of the ticket and four of the first 18 letters revealed the name Eric, followed by the word, love within the game's puzzle board. Johansson's son, Eric, passed away at the age of 24. She said
Dec 5, 2018, 9:38 am - Lottery News

New CT lottery chief draws flak over his response to auditors' report on Jan. 1 drawing disasterNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s new president and CEO, Gregory Smith, was hired this past July amid hopes of a fresh start for the agency that was hit by a million-dollar mistake in a Jan. 1 drawing, after enduring two years of turmoil following a fraud scandal that shut down the 5 Card Cash game in 2015. But Smith has quickly been drawn into a controversy stemming from those very same problems after writing a letter to two key state legislators in which he defended the lottery agency for act
Nov 26, 2018, 7:45 pm - Lottery News

Woman given lottery ticket for graduation gift wins $2,000 a month for lifeNews Story
By Todd Northrop Imagine starting life after graduation with a $2,000 a month head start. That's exactly what one Connecticut woman did. 22-year-old Anissa Dellaripa of South Windsor, Connectiucut, was given a $1 Win for Life Ticket for graduation and it paid off in a big way. My dad often buys me scratch tickets for fun, Dellaripa told lottery officials. He gave me this one and said, 'Here, scratch it.' The ticket cost only a dollar. Dellaripa scratched the ticket and couldn't bel
Sep 15, 2018, 8:54 pm - Lottery News

CT Lottery official disciplined for botched raffle draw claims lottery has vendetta against himNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. opened 2018 with a million dollar blunder at a Jan. 1 drawing, and months of controversy followed. But that seemed to die down as the agency recently reported a record $345 million in revenue on $1.2 billion in annual ticket sales, and took a step toward normality last month by hiring Gregory Smith, the acting Illinois lottery chief, to fill its long-vacant CEO position. However, the surface calm is deceiving. There's still big trouble. It comes in the form of
Aug 5, 2018, 8:25 am - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery hires director of Illinois Lottery as new CEONews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s governing board voted Thursday to hire Gregory Smith, acting director of the Illinois Lottery, as its new CEO in hopes of stability after nearly two years of turmoil, recriminations and investigations at the quasi-public agency with a $1.2 billion annual budget. The lottery's top job had been vacant since Sept. 22, 2016, when last CEO, Anne Noble, stepped down amid controversy and entered an unusual and lucrative severance agreement with the agency's board of d
Jul 6, 2018, 10:10 am - Lottery News

Connecticut woman stole more than $25K in lottery ticketsNews Story
Police in a small Connecticut town said a former gas station worker in stole more than $25,000 in scratch-off lottery ticket revenue from the business. Juliana Perillo, 55,was charged with first-degree larceny Monday in connection to lottery revenue that went missing from Petro Pat's in Wolcott. She was released on a promise to appear and is next scheduled to appear in court on July 2. Police said Perillo faked numbers on a store log sheet to make it seem like customers had returned their
May 23, 2018, 11:09 am - Lottery News

Two CT Lottery employees suspended without pay for their roles in botched raffle drawingNews Story
Two middle-level Connecticut Lottery Corp. employees have been suspended without pay in the continuing fallout from a million-dollar mistake in the Jan. 1 drawing that selected winners in the New Year's Super Draw game. Disciplined for neglect of duty were drawing supervisor Valerie Guglielmo and investigator Robert Balicki. Both served on a five-member drawing team that mistakenly excluded 100,000 of 214,601 eligible tickets that had been sold to players. The error resulted in a do-over draw
Mar 23, 2018, 8:47 pm - Lottery News

CT Lottery security chief on paid leave following review of botched raffle drawNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. has placed its $139,000-a-year year security director, Alfred DuPuis, on a paid leave pending possible disciplinary action after an internal investigation concluded that he acted with gross neglect... of his duties leading up to a million-dollar blunder in a Jan. 1 drawing. (See Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error', Lottery Post, Jan. 2, 2018.) Interim lottery CEO Chelsea Turner imposed the leave Thursday. That was
Feb 17, 2018, 8:28 pm - Lottery News