Two CT Lottery employees suspended without pay for their roles in botched raffle drawing

Comment #6

Tattoued — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:52:53 GMT

How about the unfairness of the SECOND drawing? To include ALL the numbers - even the ones that already won - was completely out of line. The 100,000 tickets that were omitted got ONE chance to win. All the other numbers got TWO chances to win, and to include the numbers that ALREADY WON IN THE FIRST DRAWING threw the odds out of balance, especially since many of those numbers DID win twice! Where s the fairness in that? I want to know whose bright idea it was to come up with the rules for the S... [ More ]

Comment #5

ckrakowski — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:58:54 GMT

It probably will be months before the fallout from the Jan. 1 drawing snafu dissipates.

Um no. Try years.

A R Union President John DiSette said last month that the drawing's adverse outcome was the result of systemic deficiencies, not misconduct or negligence.

Of course blame it on the machines even though the evidence points to your company as the screw up.

He said that investigative reports by the lottery corporation and the DCP on the drawing snafu show that th... [ More ]

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:31:44 GMT

Bet they love their Union protecting them. I do believe that had the Union not gone along with this slap on the wrist, termination would eventually become reality.

As for DuPuis, FMLA only last 12 weeks/calendar year. You'll run out of that in no time. Where I retired from folks would use up their FMLA and then get 10 points for tardies/calling out sick and be fired. I had FMLA only to prevent them from making me work 16 hours with my heart condition and never abused it.

Comment #3

GiveFive — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 08:25:20 GMT

I had tickets for the botched SuperDraw raffle. All I want to know is when is the next SuperDraw Raffle? That ought to tell you how at least one player took the news. G5

Comment #2

music* — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:22:09 GMT

It appears that Connecticut Lottery is pursuing justice. I wonder how the players will take this news.

Comment #1

noise-gate — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 01:54:32 GMT

Valarie Robert would understand... Marcum LLP- not so much

Two CT Lottery employees suspended without pay for their roles in botched raffle drawing

Lottery Post — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:47:19 GMT

Two middle-level Connecticut Lottery Corp. employees have been suspended without pay in the continuing fallout from a million-dollar mistake in the Jan. 1 drawing that selected winners in the New Year's Super Draw game.

Disciplined for neglect of duty were drawing supervisor Valerie Guglielmo and investigator Robert Balicki. Both served on a five-member drawing team that mistakenly excluded 100,000 of 214,601 eligible tickets that had been sold to players. The error resulted in a do-over draw... [ More ]