Ohio Lottery director under scrutiny for equipment debacle

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Kaptainess — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:52:44 GMT

Let's get the guy with the RICO Law? Investigate all his expenses, income/outgoing, bank records, real estate, stocks; partners records, close family records. If he did take money under the table, tax evasion.

People that get large sums of money can't help but to spend it.

Too aggressive huh?

Same thing happened with the radio system that the Police and Fire uses in Philadelphia, instead of making the company correct the system they will pay 10's of millions of dollars more to upgrade... [ More ]

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diamondpalace — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:28:14 GMT

Let's see how all this evolves.

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L J1 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:27:08 GMT

It's too bad...that emotion called GREED takes over again.

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LottoVantage — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:39:38 GMT

Well, it looks like just another major snafu from our elected leaders. What could have possibly been so wrong with GTECH Inc., to promote the millions of additional dollars in operating cost over the next couple of years? Are these officials enjoying monumental kickbacks from lottery contract guarantee's, or what

Ohio Lottery director under scrutiny for equipment debacle

Lottery Post — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:51:05 GMT

A year ago, Ohio Lottery Director Michael A. Dolan persuaded skeptical lawmakers to buy $11.6 million worth of equipment to launch the state's new Keno game on a promise that the setup would still work after a year a premise that Dolan later admitted was false.

Now, as Dolan prepares to ask the same legislative panel to approve a $41 million contract with a company to run Keno and other lottery games for the next two years, the director's own dubious promises could return to haunt him.

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