FBI missed rigged jackpot in 2006 before lottery scheme grew

Comment #8

HaveABall — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:08:23 GMT

Todd, FYI ... in your home page's article link, the first time Tipton is spelled, it has a slight typo.

Everybody else, the more I read about Eddie and Tommy Tipton in this very good article, the more they appear to be very similar! Both should have been sent to PRISON. Why doesn't the FBI routinely quickly run an employment check before they perform interviews of accused folks? Ugh.

Comment #7

noise-gate — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 02:27:50 GMT

Sometimes, using siblings is detrimental to your health safety. Cannot remember where l read or saw this but it goes something like this When your friends betray you, the only ones left to turn to, are strangers.

Eddie's friends rolled on him.

Comment #6

Kingofearth — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:35:17 GMT

They use a sibling to claim it in 2006: Put under investigation

2010 jackpot: They decide to use the hacker himself to buy the ticket.

They didn't even need to reveal their plans, all they needed to do was ask random people to buy them tickets and to claim any large winnings, then they'd never would have been caught. I would say this is like a fictional crime drama, but some in-competencies can only truly happen in real life.

Comment #5

psykomo — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:55:41 GMT

CAVEAT EMPTOR

Comment #4

noise-gate — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:15:41 GMT

Right- That is why in the movie Ocean's Eleven George* Danny Brad * Rusty recruit eight others to pull their thing off. Eddie should have watched that movie, he could have learned something.Life does at times imitate art.

Comment #3

dpoly1 — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:59:33 GMT

The FBI seems to miss a lot of things .............

Comment #2

Kingofearth — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:12:52 GMT

If they simply found another accomplice to buy the 16 Mil ticket then they wouldn't have been caught either.

Comment #1

rcbbuckeye — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:02:26 GMT

If they hadn't gotten greedy with the $16 million Hot Lotto jackpot, they would have gotten away with the other draws they rigged.

FBI missed rigged jackpot in 2006 before lottery scheme grew

Lottery Post — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:51:34 GMT

Investigators were suspicious in 2006 when they heard that a rural Texas judge was trying to exchange $450,000 in consecutively marked bills.

But Tommy Tipton, a Fayette County magistrate, told the FBI that his actions were innocent, if odd: He won the Colorado lottery but couldn't tell his wife because gambling was against their Christian faith. The FBI accepted the story and dropped its inquiry of Tipton, who soon bought a new truck and more property around the town of Flatonia, 110 miles... [ More ]