Man finds $50,000 lottery ticket, returns it to owner
A deli owner in Newington found a winning lottery ticket in the trash and returned it to his customer.
George Rusin has a loyal customer base at Your Store deli in Newington, Connecticut. He gets credit for his talent in the kitchen and his honesty behind the counter.
George says he sees people buy scratch tickets and leave them behind all day. He knew one day he was bound to find a big winner in the trash.
I thought it was a dinky $5 winner, then I'm seeing a five and four big zero ...
Sep 22, 2007, 7:30 am - - Lottery News forum
Tennessee Lottery takes back refund offer
Today the Tennessee Lottery rescinded its offer from last week to refund tickets purchased with the wrong jackpot amount listed.
In a release issued on their web site, the Tennessee Lottery emphatically stated, The Tennessee Lottery is not offering refunds for Powerball tickets purchased last week.
The Lottery regrets any confusion or inconvenience created by recent reports concerning some tickets sold on Sept. 6 and the morning of Sept. 7, 2007.
The lottery stated that players have ...
Sep 14, 2007, 2:24 pm - - Lottery News forum
Clerk tricks lotto winner, pockets money
A man who went to a 7-Eleven in Roseville, Calif., to check on his lottery tickets had picked the right numbers, but state officials said it was the clerk who almost hit the jackpot.
The female clerk told the customer he won $4 on his Mega Millions picks for Aug. 14, and then pocketed his winning ticket worth $555,000, California Lottery officials said.
However, the clerk's alleged scheme fell apart after the unnamed victim became suspicious and called lottery officials.
Rajinder Kaur, ...
Sep 7, 2007, 10:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
$93 million lottery winner has yet to claim her prize
Gas station owner Simon Kim has looked at the photograph of the woman captured on security tape dozens of times since Friday night, when she came into the business and purchased a winning lottery ticket worth a staggering $93 million.
Kim said he recognizes the woman, who visits his Bay Farm Island station at least once a week.
He just doesn't know her name.
Neither do California Lottery officials, who late Thursday afternoon were still waiting for her to come forward to claim the money ...
Sep 7, 2007, 9:11 pm - - Lottery News forum
Atlantic Lottery adds new ticket security measures
The Atlantic Lottery Corp. is introducing more measures aimed at tightening the security of lottery ticket validation, the corporation said this week.
Starting Monday, the corporation's online ticket terminals will print two slips whenever a winning ticket is validated for an amount the retailer is to pay, a release Wednesday said.
After validating winning tickets, retailers will be required to pay the prize, stamp the winning tickets Paid, and return them along with one of the validation ...
Aug 12, 2007, 10:17 am - - Lottery News forum
Retailers sue N.M. Lottery over scratch-off games
Eastern N.M. businesses say some prize money not being awarded
Eastern New Mexico retailers have accused the New Mexico Lottery of misrepresenting scratch-off games to the public by advertising prizes, then pulling the games before all the money is awarded.
The retailers, in a class-action lawsuit filed in state District Court in Albuquerque last week, allege the lottery has adopted a practice over the past several years of prematurely pulling games statewide while substantial cash prizes ...
Jul 3, 2007, 7:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
2 more execs fall victim to Ontario Lottery scandal
VP fired, another shuffled out of job
One senior executive was fired and another reassigned yesterday as the fallout from a scandal involving allegations of fraud and suspicious insider wins at the provincial lottery corporation widened.
Michelle DiEmanuele, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation's interim chief executive, announced the changes yesterday afternoon in a memo to staff.
Vice-president Ingrid Peters was fired after eight years with the company. She earned more than $267,000 ...
Jun 13, 2007, 8:36 am - - Lottery News forum
8-time B.C. Lottery winner has history of fraud
A Kamloops store clerk who won the lottery eight times over the past five years was convicted of fraud in 2001.
On May 30, after a scathing report from the B.C. ombudsman on possible retailer fraud, the B.C. Lottery Corp. released the names of 24 retailers known to have won multiple prizes over the past seven years.
Court records obtained by The Vancouver Sun show that one of those retailers Kulvinder Kaur Bains, 43, an employee at the Halston Market in Kamloops pleaded guilty in Augus ...
Jun 12, 2007, 9:29 am - - Lottery News forum
Yukon lotteries go under microscope
Lottery operations in the Yukon are currently under review, in the wake of similar probes in other Canadian provinces, but Yukon lottery officials foresee no problems.
The Western Lottery Corp. has hired Ernst Young to audit its operations, which include those in the Western provinces and the Yukon. A final report is expected by late September.
The audit will examine, in part, how many lottery retailers are winning at games for which they sell the tickets something Yukon Lottery Commis ...
Jun 4, 2007, 4:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
Lottery thief sets himself on fire
Firefighters said it can't get more ironic than this: an arsonist breaks into a convenience store, steals scratch-off lottery tickets, tries to cover his tracks by setting a fire, and in the process, sets himself on fire.
It happened early Thursday morning in Rome, Georgia, just off of Rockmart Highway.
Safarez Chunara surveyed his store on Friday the first time he and his family had seen the damage. The inside is completely torched.
We trying to work and serve the community, Chunar ...
Jun 2, 2007, 7:16 pm - - Lottery News forum
