N.C. Powerball lottery winner had to disconnect phone
Count Roxboro, North Carolina, resident Willie Scott among the fans of the still-growing North Carolina Education Lottery.
Of course, it helps that Scott still is counting his money.
It's great, said Scott, who recently won $800,000 in a Powerball drawing. It's the best thing because a lot of money was going out of state, but now that money is staying in the state to help with education.
Even with big winners such as Scott claiming life-altering prizes, the lottery has generated ...
Oct 18, 2006, 7:58 am - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery trial: prosectutor calls ex-commissioner 'crafty'
Former lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings is a very crafty individual who chose to deliberately withhold information about his work for a lottery company, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments in Geddings' federal fraud trial.
His duty was to the public and not to himself, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Duffy told jurors, who received their instructions Wednesday afternoon and were scheduled to start deliberations Thursday.
During his 90-minute statement, Duffy describe ...
Oct 12, 2006, 2:09 pm - - Lottery News forum
New N.C. lottery game exceeds expectations
Lottery officials say North Carolina's newest game sold more tickets than expected this weekend.
Carolina Pick 3 launched Friday with its first drawing. Those who know the pick 'em games were fired up to see the new game start last week.
It gives you more opportunity to win, plus it gives you the opportunity to spend more money, put it back into the state and back into the schools, lottery player Shawn James said.
More money was spent than lottery officials expected. Through Sunday, s ...
Oct 10, 2006, 9:45 am - - Lottery News forum
New N.C. lottery games debut this month
First Pick 3 drawing this Friday
Two new North Carolina lottery games make their debut this month. The game Carolina Pick 3 launches Friday and lets you win as much as $500 by picking three numbers in a daily drawing.
OK, so you're doing 50/50's at $1 and we're doing four different games.
Wake Forest resident Sam Boone got a crash course Monday on how to play the new game.
A lot of numbers to choose from, you have three numbers, a lot of chances of winning, Boone said.
Lottery ...
Oct 4, 2006, 12:29 pm - - Lottery News forum
Witness Says N.C. Lottery Commissioner Met With Possible Vendor
Within days of joining the state's lottery commission, Kevin Geddings met with a man who wanted to do business with North Carolina, an attorney testified Monday at Geddings' federal fraud trial.
Joe Lucas, a Charlotte lawyer, said he arranged for Geddings to meet with a friend who maintained instant ticket machines for the Georgia lottery. The friend performed the work under contract with Scientific Games Corp., Lucas said.
Prosecutors have accused Geddings of failing to disclose to the St ...
Oct 3, 2006, 12:29 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery fraud trial: E-mail disclosure has witness in tears
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 - - Lottery News forum
N.C. lottery fraud trial puts S.C. Lottery under microscope
The federal trial of Kevin L. Geddings is probing as deeply into his pro-lottery work in South Carolina as it is into his activities leading up to his appointment last year to North Carolina's lottery commission.
And the evidence presented so far by prosecutors suggests they see a pattern of conduct payments to Geddings by lottery vendor Scientific Games in exchange for helping the company win lottery business.
Testimony and evidence show that creating a lottery in the Palmetto state ...
Sep 27, 2006, 12:57 pm - - Lottery News forum
N.C. Lottery commissioner on lottery firm payroll for years
Four years before North Carolina lawmakers created the state lottery, a for-profit lottery company was paying former state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings to work as a consultant, a company executive said Monday at Geddings' fraud trial.
Patrick Traub, an executive at Scientific Games Corp., affirmed government evidence showing that Geddings received $9,668.66 in April 2001 from a company later acquired by Scientific Games. An invoice from Geddings' public relations firm stated the payme ...
Sep 25, 2006, 1:51 pm - - Lottery News forum
Trial in N.C. lottery fraud case begins
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that former N.C. lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings spent 60 telltale days last year working for a lottery company, holding a state lottery post and deceiving the public.
In opening statements in Geddings' fraud case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Duffy said Geddings had a lucrative relationship with lottery vendor Scientific Games that was a conflict of interest as a commissioner. By failing to disclose the relationship, Duffy said Geddings violated a law ...
Sep 22, 2006, 2:30 pm - - Lottery News forum
First N.C. lottery chairman Sanders resigns
The first chairman of the North Carolina lottery commission resigned Tuesday after a year on the job that began tumultuously and ended up with ticket sales of more than $400 million.
During his tenure, Charles Sanders helped create the North Carolina lottery from scratch, handled ethics questions surrounding the approval of the games and watched three other commissioners give up their seats.
Gov. Mike Easley appointed Sanders in September 2005 to a one-year term that expired Aug. 31. In a ...
Sep 12, 2006, 5:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
