Did the Oklahoma Lottery break its promise?

Comment #7

cps10 — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:45:04 GMT

I see nothing wrong with it either. I might look into that if I ever win Powerball here! :)

Well, at least there's hope

Comment #6

okmarc — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:07:41 GMT

I see nothing wrong with forming a trust to remain anonymous, especially considering the amount of the prize in this instance.

Regarding the Muskogee Phoenix editorial quoted here, bear in mind that the Phoenix was against the Lottery in an editorial back in November 2004 when the issue was up for vote. On the other hand The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) and Tulsa World both endorsed the Lottery at the time, and the voters of Oklahoma apparently agreed.

Comment #5

cps10 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:37:56 GMT

It would be pretty easy to do...especially given that they allow you 6 months before you have to come forward anyway.

Comment #4

bellyache — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:36:01 GMT

It doesn't bother me either. If I could get away with forming a trust and remaining anonymous I would.

Comment #3

cps10 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:33:01 GMT

Outstanding take on this guesser...I can definitely see your side of things that way.

Comment #2

guesser — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:29:37 GMT

I can see it both ways, but I tend to think they should disclose the winner's names 'at a later date', say maybe 60-90 days after they have their ticket verified, or something like that.

This would give the MUSL a chance to do the background checks, and also give the winners a chance to pull up their stakes, move, change phone numbers, get their (new) lives in order, etc. If somebody owed back-child support or taxes, I think witholding a certain percentage until all the checks are done woul... [ More ]

Comment #1

cps10 — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:52:37 GMT

This kind of thing doesn't bother me...I think that's a clever way that the winners created to protect themselves and their families from total harrassment. Kudos to the winners.

I also think that it will also make distributions a lot easier for the people within the trust. Only those who participated in the pool, if that's what it was, will be allowed distributions, which I am sure the Trust Agreement had to be signed by all parties involved.

So this may serve two-fold: (1) to protect the... [ More ]

Did the Oklahoma Lottery break its promise?

Lottery Post — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:57:02 GMT

Published by the Muskogee Phoenix

August 17, 2006

The Oklahoma Lottery Commission may not be doing anything different than lotteries in other states in allowing trusts to claim prizes, but we don't want to be like other states.

We want winners identified just as the commission said they would be identified with the minimum name and hometown.

Despite stating on its Web site that winners cannot be anonymous, the commission allowed the June 17, $101.8 million Powerball winners to claim... [ More ]