N.J. Lottery scratch games called 'paper slot machines'
Stephen Sunny Big Guy Bernath buys a fistful of instant lottery tickets every day and takes his place on a wooden bench next to a garbage can in front of the Krauszer's R J Food Store in Perth Amboy.There, the heavyset 70-year-old man rubs each ticket with a finger, cusses at it, then tosses it in the trash.Rub, cuss, toss.Rub, cuss, toss.He has been known to do this for hours, filling the garbage can with his losers before going back into the store to try his luck again. Crossword. Betty Boop ...
Dec 5, 2005, 1:23 am - - Lottery News forum
Newspaper takes a hard look at the N.J. Lottery
They call her the Queen of the Lottery.Her realm: the North Broad Foodmart, a convenience store behind a gas station off Route 22 in Hillside.One evening, as the queen, aka Pat Howard, an insurance agent who lives in Newark, waits in line for the green machine, someone asks how much she spends. Maybe $20, $30 a day, she says.At this, the crowded store falls silent. Then, all at once, everyone laughs.After the queen is finished with her order, store manager Rashmi Patel spins a swivel scre ...
Dec 4, 2005, 7:24 am - - Lottery News forum
Scientific Games appeals N.J. Lottery's award to GTECH
Overbid by nearly $32 million in its unsuccessful attempt to get the state's lottery contract, Scientific Games filed a protest Tuesday claiming officials skewed the bid proposals to keep its current operator.Earlier this month, the state announced its plans to give GTech Corp., the current lottery operator, a new five-year contract, even though it wasn't the low bidder. The state justified the decision by saying GTech offered a more secure and reliable system and outscored Scientific Games on a ...
Nov 23, 2005, 8:30 am - - Lottery News forum
GTECH awarded N.J. lottery contract despite highest bid
The state of New Jersey yesterday signed a five-year extension with longtime lottery manager GTECH Corp., despite a competitor's offer to do the job for $32 million less.State records show that GTECH's bid, which totaled $107 million over five years, was accepted because of concerns over the experience and equipment offered by rival Scientific Games, which said it could do the job for $75 million. In general, the committee bases its recommendation on the overall technical superiority of GTECH's ...
Nov 8, 2005, 6:45 am - - Lottery News forum
Who's laughing now? Jokester is $258 million richer
Last week, he was a guy who drove a Toyota Camry to work trying to convince people they needed to buy pots and pans, a guy whose shtick was mildly amusing -- at best -- to friends, a guy whose own wife said he talked too much.But on Friday, Harold Lerner got to do his shtick in front of hundreds of people and more than a dozen television cameras, knowing he probably had more money than all of them combined. He and his wife, Helen, were introduced at a press conference as the sole winners of a $2 ...
Sep 24, 2005, 12:30 pm - - Lottery News forum
New Jersey Couple Wins $258 Million in Mega Jackpot
What to do with a piece of paper worth $258 million?That was the immediate question that confronted Helen and Harold Lerner last Saturday morning after they checked the lottery numbers in the local newspaper and found that they had bought the winning ticket in the Sept. 16 drawing of the Mega Millions jackpot.First they hugged and kissed. Then they checked the ticket about 500 times, Mr. Lerner said, and all of a sudden we were in a dreamland. They wrapped the ticket in cellophane, put it in ...
Sep 24, 2005, 11:57 am - - Lottery News forum
Mega millionaires celebrate lottery jackpot
It's hard not to grow giddy at the thought of millions and millions of dollars, even if the money isn't yours.As Harold and Helen Lerner pulled into the driveway of their two-story English Tudor home in Rutherford on Friday afternoon, just a few hours after announcing to the world that they had won the $258 million Mega Millions jackpot, Michele Luna, who lives across the street, couldn't help herself. They're home, they're home! she exclaimed, trying to quiet her two children, who were, at thi ...
Sep 24, 2005, 11:10 am - - Lottery News forum
New Jersey Couple are Lottery Mega Millionaires
A married couple from Rutherford is the winner of the largest single-ticket lottery jackpot in New Jersey history.Helen and Harold Lerner are the holders of a ticket for last Friday's $258 million Mega Millions jackpot.Helen chose the cash option when she bought the ticket at a newsstand in Rutherford last week. The couple will receive $156,141,600 million, before the 25 percent federal income tax deduction.Helen is a lifelong New Jersey resident, and her husband has lived in the state for 28 ye ...
Sep 23, 2005, 11:50 am - - Lottery News forum
Mega Millions lottery winner to be revealed Friday
The winner of last week's $258 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot will be revealed tomorrow.New Jersey Lottery officials have scheduled an 11:30 am news conference on the campus of Seton Hall University to introduce the winner. They won't say whether the winner was a single individual or a group.The winning ticket from last Friday's drawing was bought at a newsstand in Rutherford.The winner will collect the fifth-largest lottery jackpot ever awarded in the US.Officials have even refused to r ...
Sep 22, 2005, 11:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.J. Lottery's scratch games hit $1 billion sales record
Why wait all day or even overnight to see whether you've won Pick 6 Lotto or Mega Millions, when you can find out in seconds whether you've won an instant lottery game?Judging by the latest annual figures announced Monday by the New Jersey Lottery, that's exactly what an increasing number of Garden State residents seem to be thinking.Sales of instant games in the fiscal year ending June 30 passed $1 billion for the first time, with revenues from those games rising 9.5 percent from the previo ...
Aug 30, 2005, 9:24 am - - Lottery News forum
