Trial underway in world's biggest lottery fraud case

Comment #8

KY Floyd — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 07:21:48 GMT

Failure to get a guilty verdict doesn't mean there wasn't an inside job. It just means they couldn't prove to the jury that it was an inside job perpetrated by Tipton.

Considering that the lottery appears to be making the embarrassing admission that their official position is that it's entirely possible that an employee was able to tamper with the drawing computer, such tampering seems like a very plausible explanation. Of course even if it's an absolute certainty that the drawing was rigged... [ More ]

Comment #7

Stack47 — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:06:02 GMT

Bogle said he did not recognize Tipton in the store video as being the man who was buying the winning ticket. And The man is a longtime employee of the Maine Lottery. Defense attorney Stowers asked how many times the man had met Tipton. He replied, twice. The witness said he was not 100-percent sure it was Tipton in the video. The witness said he could not identify individual in the video by face. But The second witness on the stand was an Iowa lottery employee. She said she recognized Tipton as... [ More ]

Comment #6

Bradafleck — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:24:33 GMT

Root kit program with self delete after activation, just sayin. Eddie may have even given a presentation on the security risks these root kits present.

Comment #5

pickone4me — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:51:11 GMT

He said this is a case of an inside job. Didn't my haters say that an inside job could never happen, or that it was a conspiracy theory and laughed it off

Comment #4

Technut — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:49:07 GMT

All lottery drawings should be done using actual machines and balls and this is why.

Comment #3

TnTicketlosers — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:05:54 GMT

How many more State Lottery does what he did,makes you wonder why we never win.

Comment #2

Lottonovice — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:17:45 GMT

Wow! Good question! The odds of winning -specially for bigger jackpots-are just so astronomical to begin with. I got to think at some level most of us already know we are probably not going to win. Yet we still play! Its the fun of the chance even with the better snowball chance in H-E-double L de facto.

Comment #1

LottoMetro — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 01:04:13 GMT

Tipton wrote the program that picks the Hot Lotto numbers.

If I'm not mistaken, the same program is used to pick Hot Lotto, Powerball's PowerPlay, 2by2, and Wild Card, among others.

Trial underway in world's biggest lottery fraud case

Lottery Post — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:35:15 GMT

Includes video report

The first witnesses, including the lottery's vice president of security, took the stand Tuesday after opening statements in the trial of a former lottery worker charged in the Hot Lotto mystery winner case.

The trial for Eddie Tipton is being held in a Polk County courtroom. Tipton, 51, is charged with two counts of fraud.

Tuesday afternoon, Steve Bogle, Iowa Lottery vice president for security, took the witness stand and talked about why people hired by the lot... [ More ]