Florida bill would enhance criminal penalties for lottery retailer theft and fraud

Comment #8

KY Floyd — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:27:21 GMT

One potential update involves expanding the law to allow sworn law enforcement officers employed by the Lottery's Division of Security to purchase lottery tickets and present them to retailers to claim a prize when it is necessary for undercover duties

Are they morons? Losing tickets are useless for enforcement purposes, most tickets are losers, and they'll have to pay retailers a commission on every ticket, so why buy regular tickets from retailers? If they want to check to see if retailer... [ More ]

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Il2c — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 06:44:05 GMT

Perfect. So as I win, retailers must pay up! BBHM money

Comment #6

ShagE3 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:16:06 GMT

Yeah I almost thought looking at the info late Friday early Saturday that the GA was CA.

I was like ...... Noooo not Cali again!

Has the show me state ever won before noise-gate? If your state wins in the future I hope it is you that is the ticket holder but as to tonights PB .... may the best ShagE3 win ...whoever he is.

ShagE3

Comment #5

noise-gate — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:35:12 GMT

* Yeah, l saw that ShagE3. The lottery drought in that State has been awful. Glad for once to have the spotlight off CA. Next winner coming out of Missouri.

Comment #4

ShagE3 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:33:28 GMT

Hey not on topic but Georgia is on a roll ... First the huge jackpot Friday night only to be followed by a a huge 1st runner up prize on Tuesday .... the only runner-up prize at that!

Have a shaggy day!

ShagE3

Comment #3

noise-gate — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:53:08 GMT

*... it's no different than a neighbor walking their dog who takes a dump on your lawn with you yelling hey, don't forget to pick that up!

* What's the penalty for that

Comment #2

play4shekels — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:01:12 GMT

Talk about a flagrant waste of lawmaking...who's gonna stand up to the state's prehistoric constitution ( that was written LONG before a 5-year old could find any human being within five planets on the internet) and let the players that make our great lottery what it is remain anonymous

Comment #1

Wavepack — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:35:42 GMT

What is the penalty now in FL? Typical jail time before and after change? How many cases of store employees declaring a winning ticket has no prize and then transfer the ticket to themselves

Florida bill would enhance criminal penalties for lottery retailer theft and fraud

Lottery Post — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:11:52 GMT

Bill targets retailers and employees who steal tickets from the workplace

By Kate Northrop

A Florida Senator filed a bill on Monday that would enact harsher penalties on lottery retailer employees who conduct ticket theft schemes and would crack down on those who falsify prize claims.

Florida Senator Corey Simon proposed a bill that tightens up Florida Lottery security measures and targets individuals attempting to steal tickets from their workplace or make false prize claims.

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