CT consumer protection agency issues investigative report about botched raffle drawing

Comment #8

justguessin — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:14:29 GMT

And they get paid leaves of absences. ...will wonders ever cease

Comment #7

noise-gate — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:21:26 GMT

it's truly amazing. When there is a pileup on the freeway, the finger is usually pointed at speeding, driving to closely behind the vehicles in front. When a volcano erupts, its the magma rising through the cracks in the earth. When someone drowns, it's because of the riptide or being a poor swimmer or something else.Yet when there is a major screw up involving money, and lots of it, no one is responsible. How is this even possible

Comment #6

Bleudog101 — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:53:46 GMT

Guess it is the retired US Army in me, but I disagree with you on this one. All parties should be held equally responsible IMO. Especially in sentences 4 5.

Comment #5

KY Floyd — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 07:33:00 GMT

Let's see if I understand this correctly.

The observer was there to fulfill Marcum's contractual obligation to [o]bserve] that... the Lottery's Official Drawing Procedures ... are followed by the drawing personnel. Marcum's general counsel says that the observer had a copy of the official drawing procedures, in the form of a full set of illustrated procedures, and had said he intended to use them. An employee of the Department of Consumer Protection, not the lottery, allegedly handed the Mar... [ More ]

Comment #4

justguessin — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:25:12 GMT

100 THOUSAND tickets left out .They disappointed all those customers in one shot on New years day. You would think a make up game would be aimed to even out the score for the first group but NO that would be illegal. They made a make up game and gave the first group yet another chance to win again! Maybe Ripley s believe it or not would be interested in buying my 2 tickets for their hall of shame page

Comment #3

Kim jensen — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 01:23:28 GMT

I would like to know what Joe Verrengia is going to do for those that were left out of the first drawing. I honestly don't think the second drawing was fair to those that were left out as I didn't have a second change at winning, I didn't have two changes at all and that in itself is not fair. I hope they find there was criminal intent on those programmers just as they did with the Draw 5 game that suddenly disappeared.

I think all of us who were left out of the first drawing should be given... [ More ]

Comment #2

OneTrickpony — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:10:37 GMT

Maybe they should hold the next drawing (if there is one) on Jan. 2nd instead of the first of the new year. Everyone should be sober by then...

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Bleudog101 — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:31:36 GMT

Human error and several missed it.

Maybe Connecticut will sue Marcum for the amount of the blunder or at least get out of the contract. Hopefully without paying for the rest of the contract, but that never happens somehow.

CT consumer protection agency issues investigative report about botched raffle drawing

Lottery Post — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:10:55 GMT

An investigative report on the $1.375 million, New Year's Day lottery blunder spreads blame among the Connecticut Lottery Corp., state Department of Consumer Protection (DCP), and a national accounting firm hired to send an observer to the drawing to verify that proper procedures were followed.

But that accounting firm, Marcum LLP, is denying all culpability in the snafu despite a contract with the lottery corporation requiring it to [o]bserve] that... the Lottery's Official Drawing Procedure... [ More ]