Longtime Mass Lottery employee fired for allegedly cashing unsold winning scratch tickets

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noise-gate — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 18:39:18 GMT

CA has strict rules governing the purchase of any lottery game when it comes to their employees. l know cause l asked.

A few years ago l spoke to two workers of the State lottery who were loading vendor machines and they told me flat out: That not only were they prohibited from playing, but all family members living under their roofs those living close by as well.

Made sense.If you l were playing our State lottery for years with no serious luck during all that time, and suddenly the lotter... [ More ]

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Artist77 — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:39:55 GMT

Great info. This lack of oversight is going to help make all states anonymous. Everyone is laughing at the transparency argument.

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cottoneyedjoe — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 04:56:14 GMT

I agree. He is either a total moron, or he had to have been stealing a ton of unsold scratch-offs from storage over a long period of time to make it worth his while to risk a comfortable salary in a relatively easy job. From the description of the lottery's security procedures, he must have had accomplices too. I wonder how much they were getting out of it?

How ironic that the MA lottery makes winners' names public in the name of transparency and fostering public trust, and yet they cannot ke... [ More ]

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GiveFive — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:25:07 GMT

Perfect example of Stupid is as stupid does .

Who in their right mind is willing to trade a $100,000 a year job for a scratch off worth maybe $50?

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. (He isn't guilty until his guilt is proved in a court of law) And let's suppose he didn't steal any returned winners, and that he simply went into a store and bought a winning $50 scratch off. And yet he was willing to risk his $100,000 a year job by being seen cashing it for a lousy 50 bucks???

He'd... [ More ]

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TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:08:53 GMT

I guess he thought it was worth risking his $100,000 per year salary and now a possible jail sentence.

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cottoneyedjoe — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:46:51 GMT

So he was helping himself to unscratched tickets stored at the lottery offices, cashing in only the sub-$600 ones that he could do anonymously at a gas station. He must have occasionally come across a scratch-off worth more than $599, so what did he do with those? Destroy them? Give them to people further removed from his immediate family? Sell them?

It's pretty funny (to me at least) that he was only caught because a coworker saw him cashing them at some retailer. Really makes you wonder ho... [ More ]

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faith117 — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:38:38 GMT

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Bleudog101 — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:11:16 GMT

In this day and age of increased scrutiny glad he got caught. Greed gets you everytime.

Also in MA, some state troopers under fire for payroll discrepancies. Again, big brother is watching, you play you pay.

Nice paying job he lost.

Longtime Mass Lottery employee fired for allegedly cashing unsold winning scratch tickets

Lottery Post — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:26:07 GMT

A longtime sales supervisor for the Massachusetts State Lottery was fired Tuesday after he was seen cashing winning instant tickets, a state official said, sparking fear that the lottery's supposedly strict security protocols may have been violated.

David Cannistraro, a $100,000-a-year employee who had worked for the lottery since 2002, was first placed on paid administrative leave in June after another lottery employee saw him cashing tickets at a store on Cape Cod, said Chandra Allard, chie... [ More ]