Lottery rigging mastermind sentenced to 25 years in prison

Comment #31

sailmumm — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:53:31 GMT

Can you say rootkit program? Virtually undetectable, he even did a seminar at a NASPL event on the topic

Comment #30

Slick Nick — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:46:51 GMT

He got what he deserved

Comment #29

MillionsWanted — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:14:14 GMT

And still the lotteries continues with computer draws. It's crazy.

Comment #28

MoneyMind — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 01:45:00 GMT

Greed causes things like this to happen.

Comment #27

Dead_Aim — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 06:15:35 GMT

Tipton has agreed to pay about $2.2 million in restitution, including $1.1 million to the Colorado lottery, $644,000 to the Oklahoma lottery, $391,000 to the Wisconsin lottery and $30,000 to the Kansas lottery.

When Judge Brad McCall asked him on Tuesday how he intended to repay the money, Tipton said, Initially, I really don't know.

He will get the money from the other 47 times he got by with it they still haven't found out about yet probably.

And how often would he have got by w... [ More ]

Comment #26

wander73 — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 04:40:13 GMT

Not at all. I used to work armored car for one of the atm companies. Someone stole $39 million and tried fleeing to Mexico. Here's another tip off. If someone had a corvette or something expensive lets say then the company knows something is up.

People don't think.

Comment #25

Hit2nite — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 04:36:37 GMT

I'm feeling a certain kinda way about lottery drawings anyway...I'mma pick 3/4 player ... I play all games....Buuuuuuut something changed years ago...this article helps me doubt lottery legiticy even more...lottery officials are paid very BIG BUCKS! ....for what

Comment #24

Hit2nite — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 04:32:15 GMT

Really stinks! His brother was a former JUDGE??? Rotten EGGS

Comment #23

FULLYBLESS — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 01:02:31 GMT

Graybar hotel lol wowww but Its plenty more that needs to be investigated, i dont like those states that run test draws, my number probably came up a lot in those test draws and we are steady getting rip off ,aint no one to be trusted anymore...

Comment #22

haymaker — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:57:45 GMT

Eddie,

Enjoy you stay at the Graybar hotel and thanks for proving that RNG games should not be trusted.

Comment #21

mypiemaster — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:53:52 GMT

I feel sorry for the players who might have shared a jackpot with Tipton or one of his cohorts. THEY GOT ROBBED. You know that the lottery bosses are very greedy when it comes to free money, right? As for Tipton himself, he is soft and plumpy and BUBBA will be glad to meet him. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!.

Comment #20

Groppo — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:20:27 GMT

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OK, so is this finally the last I have to read about Eddie Tipton

Comment #19

dpoly1 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:33:18 GMT

Awesome

Comment #18

keepitreal — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:09:50 GMT

How old is the guy now? If he over 40 and 25 years in jail. He will be all most 100.

Comment #17

JAMORA — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 04:30:32 GMT

While focusing on the criminal , let's not forget that the RNG system is flawed, which is what made this rigging possible, and tempted Tipton to exploit it.....and it's still flawed, no matter how many yrs they gave him...

Comment #16

rca1952 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 04:06:38 GMT

He's sorry alright, sorry he got caught

Comment #15

eddessaknight — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:31:55 GMT

'Avaritia facit bardus'

Greed makes you stupid.

Eddessa_Kbight

Comment #14

Cassie8620 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:02:05 GMT

Im not at any time going to condone what he has done. However, a co-worker of mine was sounding like HopesDreams tonight lol so i had to say i hear ya.But i guess he didn't want to live in the lap of luxury on a beach front in a lovely beach house/condominium where there are zero extradition.

Heck,even murderers and or worse in many cases child molest azzhat's do not get this long.The hammer was really dropped on him.

Comment #13

grwurston — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:52:08 GMT

They obviously weren't expecting to get the max. You don't get the max in a plea bargain, unless it's life instead of death

Comment #12

sully16 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:40:44 GMT

Up next, Tipton gets caught rigging dice games in prison laundry room scandal.

Comment #11

Stack47 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:38:46 GMT

He looks forward to putting this entire matter behind him and moving on with his life after he serves his sentence, lawyer Dean Stowers said in an email. He had asked the judge for a suspended sentence.

If 25 years was part of a plea bargaining arrangement, what would the sentence be if he was found guilty

Comment #10

grwurston — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:01:35 GMT

I wonder if this will someday be an episode of American Greed.

Comment #9

DELotteryPlyr — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:17:50 GMT

When asked how how he would repay the money, he responded with 'I have no idea'

How about we start with you SELLING the giant house you built with the money. Plus any and ALL assets (cars, boats, planes ect).

Comment #8

LottoL — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 23:12:01 GMT

8/22/2017

. . . Tipton was formerly a programmer with the Multi-State Lottery Association,

the agency that administers some state lottery drawings.

He designed and maintained software

for computerized random number generators

used to select winning lottery numbers. . .

==================================================

Oh Boy!! And THEY said it couldn't be rigged!

Doesn't surprise me one bit! His sentence was to light IMHO!

So, by definition, were these random dr... [ More ]

Comment #7

GuesssWork — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:26:51 GMT

LIKE KABOOM take a nice long nap in you going to need it where your going no more y days for YOU.. lol... ...Ed don't drop the soap

Comment #6

lejardin — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:17:34 GMT

Dont give any of them any ideas lol.

I remember years ago there was one store clerk who stole a winning million dollar ticket. He told the owner of the ticket it was worth a thousand dollars. The clerk claimed the money and immediately headed off to Nepal. If I recall correctly it was the lottery that found the ticket owner was ripped off. The U.S. froze the thief's account in Nepal.

This was a show on The Lottery Changed My Life so you know it was years ago and at that point there was st... [ More ]

Comment #5

music* — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:06:27 GMT

Greed. Pure Greed.

Comment #4

picktowin — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:54:33 GMT

He's sorrylol

What a joke !!

It sure didn't bother him while he was colleting all the money.

He should and the rest of them should ROT in Prison

Comment #3

hopesanddreams — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:47:36 GMT

What gets me is why don't these criminals who steal millions flee to a non-extradition country? Everyone gets caught eventually. Just run as soon as you have enough to retire on. Plenty of very nice non-extradition countries offer economic citizenship.

Comment #2

lejardin — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:28:05 GMT

It appears he thought he was going to get away with this since he started building a beautiful custom residence. Too bad he isnt ever going to call it home. What a waste.

Comment #1

noise-gate — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:03:57 GMT

They lowered the boom on Eddie.

Lottery rigging mastermind sentenced to 25 years in prison

Lottery Post — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:49:23 GMT

A former lottery security chief was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday for rigging the computerized lottery drawings in several states so he could collect the jackpots.

Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), received the maximum sentence from an Iowa judge, who mentioned Tipton's greed in his sentencing.

I certainly regret my actions, Tipton told the court. It's difficult even saying that with all the people that I know behind me that... [ More ]