Ontario police to announce charges in lottery insider investigation

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justxploring — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:15:31 GMT

When I purchased my tickets last night, I was thinking of these articles on LP. A man next to me asked the clerk to check several tickets. I'm sure we all see this frequently. Some people walk in with a pile of them. The clerk, who seemed like a very nice guy, ran them threw the terminal and said no winners and the customer left. Since I was next in line, I observed him tearing up the pile of tickets and throwing them into the wastebasket behind the counter . I wanted to say to the player... [ More ]

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lmatlaw — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:49:04 GMT

This is a major scandal. I'll be anxious to see what happens.

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ThatScaryChick — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:55:09 GMT

An audit in Nova Scotia found retailers pocketed 85 winning tickets - each worth more than $25,000 - for a total of $14 million. The Nova Scotia government is demanding a review of the Atlantic Lottery Corp. after it was unable to explain why lottery insiders won approximately 10 times more major prizes than expected.

I hope those clerks and retailers who did this see jail time.

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nanolike — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:00:23 GMT

Wel theeer ya go

Ontario police to announce charges in lottery insider investigation

Lottery Post — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:25:32 GMT

Police refuse to elaborate

Insider lottery charges to be explained in Wed. press conference

The Ontario Provincial Police will announce Wednesday that they have laid a set of charges following investigations into insider lottery wins in Ontario.

The charges, which will be announced at a news conference, relate to a multi-million-dollar fraudulent lottery prize claim, said Inspector Dave Ross of corporate communications for the Ontario Provincial Police.

The charges come nine month... [ More ]