Ontario Lottery chief fired

Comment #5

Amazing Grace — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:33:04 GMT

Retailers can be crooked in more ways than one, scratch ticket counting,for example, based on the odds of the game, give me a book of 100 and see how many winners i can pick from it,

scratch tickets should come from a dispenser that is loaded by the lottery corp.

as for not checking you tickets, lazy, when i ran my group , we were buying 3000 numbers a week, we checked them all, sorted the winners and knew within $20.00 how much we won.

Comment #4

Guru101 — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:38:25 GMT

I agree. For a person to even think they can claim a ticket worth that much at a local store is just idiotic.

Comment #3

dvdiva — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:33:00 GMT

If people aren't smart enough to check their own tickets it's the fault of the lottery player and not the lottery itself.

Half of a 29.8 million prize will most likely go unclaimed in Alberta for example. Is it the fault of the lottery that this person was unable to check their ticket? At some point players are responsible for their winnings and trusting anything larger than $1000 with a clerk is idiotic.

The person who won $100,000 should have signed the ticket and cashed it out a lotter... [ More ]

Comment #2

Wintariofan — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:01:18 GMT

The downfall to this story is that Duncan Brown was only at the helm of the lottery over the past two to three years. It's sad because he is so respected in the lottery/gaming circles. The nicest guy who in fact was a civil servant before coming to OLG.

The previous board(s) of directors had not done their job very well and really on the retailer level, players were too naive and taking the retailers word, instead of checking what they won. Where OLG went wrong was they didn't do enoug... [ More ]

Comment #1

RJOh — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:35:16 GMT

CEO Duncan Brown was escorted out of the lottery corporation's offices in Toronto, two sources told the CBC, speaking on condition of anonymity.

That's the extra touch that many organizations like to add to a firing, there's nothing like an security escort out the door on your final day, it's almost like a kick in the behind as you leave.

Ontario Lottery chief fired

Lottery Post — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:12:49 GMT

The head of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation was dismissed from the scandal-plagued organization on Friday, according to CBC News.

CEO Duncan Brown was escorted out of the lottery corporation's offices in Toronto, two sources told the CBC, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Repeated calls to officials at the lottery corporation went unanswered Friday.

The dismissal follows allegations that several lottery clerks stole winning tickets from unsuspecting customers and cashed in... [ More ]