Is Georgia too much on their minds?
Tennessee's new lottery board appears to be rushing headlong into a partnership with Georgia, and someone needs to slow the train down so the public can have a better view of where it is headed.The plunge to do business with Georgia has raised more questions than members of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. have answered. The first and foremost is the legality of such a contract.That question is expected to have an answer from Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers in a formal legal opinion ...
Sep 3, 2003, 3:54 am - Lottery News forum
Lottery deal may lead to lawsuits
Tennessee's lottery board is pushing ahead with preparations for an unprecedented partnership with Georgia despite escalating criticism of the arrangement and no definitive answer as to whether it would be legal. That question is expected to be answered by Attorney General Paul G. Summers in a formal legal opinion before Friday, when the seven-member board of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. has scheduled a vote on acceptance of Georgia's offer.If given the legal green light, there is an ar ...
Sep 2, 2003, 4:04 am - Lottery News forum
Woman bilked out of $9,000 by 'Latin lotto scam'
West Texas authorities are urging residents to be on the lookout for con artists running what has been dubbed the Latin lotto scam. Investigators said a Tahoka woman was bilked out of $9,000 on Saturday.She told authorities that a Hispanic woman approached her at a Slaton store and said she needed $20,000 to collect on a lottery ticket worth $24,000.Slaton is 15 miles southeast of Lubbock.The victim said she had only $9,000, but a man posing as a passer-by offered to cover the difference.The v ...
Sep 2, 2003, 4:01 am - Lottery News forum
Man wins battle with Hoosier lottery
Richard Termite Allender doesnt know if his ticket had the winning Powerball numbers on March 12, but he already feels like he won the lottery.After a six-month battle, the State Lottery Commission of Indiana agreed to release the time the winning ticket was purchased at Joes Junction in Trafalgar.Thats important to Mr. Allender because he has the stores timed security video and hopes to recognize the winner so the prize can be claimed.The lottery commission succumbed to Mr. Allenders request af ...
Aug 29, 2003, 4:22 am - Lottery News forum
Two men face sentencing in "remarkably unsophisticated" lottery plot
Was it a scheme by a mastermind who developed a remarkably unsophisticated, but almost successful plot as prosecutors claimed, or was it more of knuckleheads in the news when a scheme was attempted to rig a $20,000 raffle drawing, as a defense attorney claimed?Two Cumberland County men will stand before an Ohio criminal court judge tomorrow to learn their fate after both were convicted of their roles in a scheme to defraud a homecoming celebrating Ohio community of thousands of dollars durin ...
Aug 28, 2003, 4:35 am - Lottery News forum
Winners in waiting
Teri and Cornell Davis may be lottery millionaires, but so far their lives lack bling.There are no new clothes or shoes, no marathon shopping sprees or impromptu luxury vacations - yet.The Englewood couple virtually ended up homeless when they hurriedly moved out of their rented Palisade Avenue home - in anticipation of purchasing their own place - after hitting the jackpot in March.But five months later, Teri and Cornell Davis are still empty-handed. They hope to receive their $25.4 million lum ...
Aug 22, 2003, 3:59 am - Lottery News forum
Elderly Couple Going to Court Over Million-dollar Lottery Ticket
A Long Island couple married for 16 years recently bought a New York Lottery ticket and won $25 million. Then the divorce papers were filed, and the lottery jackpot is now at the center of a bitter custody battle.Long Island correspondent Lauren DeFranco files this report from Garden City.We're told the wife in the case went to collect the millions at the Claim Center in Garden City. Now the husband's afraid he won't see a penny of it, so he's taking the Mrs. to court.Kenneth Parker, Lottery Win ...
Aug 22, 2003, 3:50 am - Lottery News forum
Burglar Has Lotto Fever
Columbus, Georgia police are talking about an unusual late-night break-in at a convenience store -- unusual because of what was taken.Officers say someone broke through a glass door around 2:00 a.m. Tuesday at the Citgo station on Veterans Parkway at River Road. But all he stole was a machine for printing lottery tickets, and two rolls of scratch-off tickets valued at $600. Trouble was, a getaway driver reportedly drove away, leaving the burglar behind.Police chased down and arrested a possible ...
Aug 19, 2003, 4:07 am - Lottery News forum
Lottery Corporation Names Consortium Of Law Firms
The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation Friday named a consortium of law firms including Waller Lansden Dortch Davis PLLC, Burch Porter Johnson PLLC, Metz Hauser Husband PA and Spence Wade PLLC to provide outside legal services to the Tennessee Lottery. We received applications from a number of impressive firms and groups of firms, said lottery board member Jim Ripley of Sevierville, who led the search for a legal-services provider. At the end of the day, Ripley said, the consorti ...
Aug 18, 2003, 3:22 am - Lottery News forum
Employee accused of stealing $17,000 worth of lottery tickets
Teresa Lynette Guyton, 31, is charged with theft between $1,500 and $20,000, a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Authorities accuse her of activating, stealing and cashing an unspecified number of scratch-off tickets from the Copper Mart on Boonville Road.Guyton was arrested Wednesday and released from the Brazos County Jail later that day on a $15,000 personal recognizance bond. She could not be reached for comment Thursday.Copper Mart managers cont ...
Aug 15, 2003, 3:38 am - Lottery News forum
