N.C. Lottery fraud trial: E-mail disclosure has witness in tearsNews Story
An office manager for former state lottery commissioner Kevin L. Geddings broke down in tears on the witness stand Tuesday when she was asked to read for jurors an e-mail message that Geddings had sent her last year. The message directed Cheri Moore Pfisterer of Charlotte to not disclose that lottery vendor Scientific Games was a client of Geddings' public-relations firm. Geddings sent the message four days after House Speaker Jim Black appointed him to the lottery commission. Pls neve ...
Sep 27, 2006, 1:39 pm - Todd - Lottery News forum

Woman sentenced to life in prison for slaying of lottery winnerNews Story
A 23-year-old woman has been convicted of helping kidnap her lottery-winning brother-in-law and then executing the man, who was also her lover, with a shot to the head. Victoria Jackson was sentenced to life in prison immediately after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in the July 2005 slaying of Jeffrey Dampier, an Illinois lottery winner turned Florida popcorn entrepreneur who was married to Jackson's sister. Prosecutors said Jackson and boyfriend Nathaniel Jackson, ...
Sep 22, 2006, 2:08 pm - Todd - Lottery News forum