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Forum criticized for including Georgia lottery firmsNews Story
A lottery forum planned for minority businesses in Memphis next week came under fire yesterday, with some vendors saying that inviting two companies that work for the Georgia lottery to participate makes it appear that a Tennessee-Georgia partnership is a done deal.Three African-American lawmakers are planning a ''Tennessee Lottery Business Opportunities Forum'' Sept. 4, featuring GTECH and Scientific Games. A state lottery board member, originally scheduled to appear, has pulled out of the prog
Aug 28, 2003, 4:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Vendors Object to Tenn.-Georgia PartnershipReply
I am in favor of the partnership myself. the lottery would start much earlier and make more money..The 4 vendors who are against the partnership are sore losers. They want absolute control. I personally feel that they are against the checks and balances in the Georgia system. In other words I feel as if the 4 vendors win, there is room for hanky panky which is not so easy if a sister state is looking over their shoulders.
Aug 26, 2003, 6:14 pm - Littleoldlady - Lottery News

California lottery retailers investigated for massive prize claimsReply
Actually they do get out much Stack- this Tacchini guy is a pit bull. A few years back he took Chris Hansen from To catch a predator on a ride along to nail some of these rogue vendors who were not playing by the rules. They were confiscating their equipment right there and then sending a clear message to all.If l recall correctly, they were sending folks in with genuine scratcher tickets specifically manufactured with amounts of $500.00 and asking the clerks if they had won anything- some clerk
Oct 31, 2014, 9:53 pm - noise-gate - Lottery News

Lottery work moving ahead of scheduleNews Story
The chief executive officer of the Tennessee lottery said yesterday that she is expecting upward of 20,000 applications for the lottery's approximately 300 jobs.Among the openings are a few senior staff positions that pay upward of $150,000 a year. Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul says she hopes to have those positions filled by the end of the week.People hired to fill those executive positions will serve on a committee that will evaluate proposals from companies wanting to snare a multimillion-dollar c
Oct 7, 2003, 5:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery leaders convene in D.C. to discuss future of gamesNews Story
La Fleur's annual symposium draws hundreds of lottery personnel, vendors By Todd Northrop This week leaders from nearly every U.S. and Canadian lottery met in Washington, D.C. at the annual La Fleur's Lottery Symposium to discuss the future of government lotteries, especially with regard to Internet sales and play. Emboldened by a U.S. Department of Justice opinion issued in Dec. of last year clarifying that the Wire Act only has bearing on sports wagering, state lotteries have immediat
Apr 26, 2012, 3:40 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery contracts not renewedNews Story
The Colorado Department of Revenue will not extend two key Colorado Lottery contracts, choosing instead to seek new bids for advertising and public relations services.The move comes in the midst of a criminal probe into the timing of gifts given to top Lottery officials by vendors doing business with the agency and as Department of Revenue Executive Director M. Michael Cooke reviews all of the Lottery's contracts to make sure they were crafted fairly. It's a perfect time for us to look at these
Feb 4, 2004, 5:26 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery board ups goalsNews Story
Profit expectations for Tennessee's new lottery director Rebecca Paul increased Tuesday by roughly $6 million following a vote by the state's lottery board.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) board, due to Paul's starting one week earlier than planned, increased the amount of net proceeds the lottery must garner if Paul is to receive the whole of her $400,000 incentive package. A former goal described by Paul as Herculean -- of $122 million by June 30, the end of the fiscal year
Sep 24, 2003, 4:05 am - Todd - Lottery News

Paul to run sales, advertising for Tenn. LotteryNews Story
Sales and marketing of the Tennessee lottery will be controlled by lottery head Rebecca Paul, while other aspects of running the games will be handed over to private vendors.That was the style Paul used when she ran the Georgia lottery for 10 years and that's how she plans to run the Tennessee lottery, she said yesterday.On her second day on the job, Paul made several recommendations to the Tennessee lottery board, including what she plans to include in two major contracts with gaming vendors.Bo
Sep 24, 2003, 3:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

Other vendors could have saved Tenn. lottery $23MNews Story
While Tennessee's lottery won uncommonly good rates from two companies vying to sell lottery tickets here next year, those rates were not the lowest offered.Indeed, they were the highest.The difference: an estimated $23 million over the seven-year term of the contracts.That's enough to help put almost 2,000 students through four years of college the intended purpose of the lottery.Lottery officials say there were good reasons for rejecting the lowest rates. They had concerns about the reliabilit
Dec 22, 2003, 6:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

Divide and Conquer: Meet the Lottery TitansNews Story
Enveloped in neon lights, murmuring crowds and the tinny melody of computerized games, a convention center showroom here bears the trappings of a Las Vegas casino. But the players, mostly state employees sporting suits and name tags, haven't come to this annual expo to gamble. Instead, they are sampling the wares of one of government's biggest cash cows: lotteries, which rang up about $202 billion in sales last year in the United States and overseas. Amid sales pitches and glad-handing, there
Oct 20, 2007, 9:57 pm - Todd - Lottery News