Kentucky Lottery manager faces lottery ticket fraud charges

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helpmewin — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:48:33 GMT

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helpmewin — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:47:55 GMT

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helpmewin — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:47:13 GMT

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JoeCanWin — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:07:41 GMT

A regional manager at that. Glad they got him, sets a good example to the public to get someone higher-up, not just the bottom-rung employees. Good, right

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Teddi — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:24:04 GMT

Ikr. Somehow he thought 1,800 tickets going missing were going to get overlooked

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RedStang — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:27:41 GMT

I'm not the smartest Clam in the Bushel, but i know if you take lotto tickets, write bad checks, or steal the Girl scouts tip jar, you're probably going to end up in jail and more broke then you were before. I read stories like this everyday and always wonder what the morons were thinking.

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TnTicketlosers — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 01:02:34 GMT

You will get caught,it takes some folks longer than others I guess.

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Jon D — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:32:01 GMT

It's the temptation, many cannot resist.

Lottery employees and vendor/contractors, with their inside access to information, people and systems, will always be tempted to take advantage of their position. That is why they are not supposed to be allowed to play the lottery, because of the potential for abuse and fraud. But that rule doesn't stop them.

Just like the previous case of a lottery security official with ticket fraud:

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/263544

They cannot resist... [ More ]

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KY Floyd — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:07:25 GMT

Since they were promotional tickets he was probably thinking, We give away a few hundred thousand of these every year. As long as the prizes are small enough to collect at a store they'll never notice that I just gave a few to myself instead of to other people.

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HoLeeKau — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:31:10 GMT

That was my first thought, too. Surely this guy knew about lottery security, and knew he was likely to get caught. What was he thinking

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Shelby Mustang — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:06:09 GMT

I do understand why these people keep trying to scam the lottery commission, dont they know they're being watched and monitored

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sully16 — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:49:16 GMT

Hope he gets more then a slap on the wrist.

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noise-gate — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:13:55 GMT

Right about that Ridge.As the old saying goes. .

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely

A fish rots from the head down .

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rdgrnr — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:31:18 GMT

Somewhere between blind faith and conspiracy theory as it applies to the integrity of lotteries, lies the reality that we're all human and endowed with the frailties and shortcomings assigned thereto.

And there but for the Grace of God go all of us.

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TNPATL — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:23:24 GMT

*In my Donald Trump Voice*

You're FIRED

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mypiemaster — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:53:20 GMT

Umm, what else is new

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Jon D — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:37:02 GMT

Another case of lottery industry insider ticket fraud...surprise, surprise.

Kentucky Lottery manager faces lottery ticket fraud charges

Lottery Post — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:30:53 GMT

Updated: Additional information from the Kentucky Lottery

By Todd Northrop

A regional manager for the Kentucky Lottery Corporation is accused of fraudulently using lottery tickets after an investigation into 1,800 missing tickets, according to the Kentucky State Police.

Jeffrey L. Riley, 55, of Lexington, was charged Friday with three counts of fraudulent use of a lottery ticket, a class C felony.

Riley's arrest followed an internal investigation in January into 1,800 missing promoti... [ More ]