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Iowa Lottery wins International Gaming-Compliance award for work in lottery rigging investigationNews Story
Long-running case culminated in 2017 guilty pleas from three men The Iowa Lottery has won an international gaming-compliance award for its work in the long-running lottery jackpot investigation that uncovered fraud against U.S. lotteries and resulted in guilty pleas from three men. GamblingCompliance on Wednesday named the Iowa Lottery its 2018 recipient for outstanding achievement in compliance. The organization's annual awards that recognize excellence in 11 categories focused on regulat
Apr 19, 2018, 10:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

Illinois lawmakers call for investigation into lotteryNews Story
State lawmakers from both political parties are calling for an investigation of how the Illinois Lottery managed scratch-off games in response to a report showing the lottery didn't award many of the biggest prizes in the biggest games. I just don't think we should promise people things we don't deliver, said state Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie. And if we say we have a game that's going to pay X and it doesn't pay X, then we've lied to the people who bought the tickets. Lang was joined by stat
Dec 13, 2016, 8:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Court filings outline steering of D.C. lottery dealNews Story
In recorded conversation, official suggests ousting winner of bidding Documents filed in federal court Thursday portray in vivid detail the efforts of a number of D.C. officials, including then-Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi, to manipulate the outcome of the competitively bid, multimillion-dollar D.C. Lottery contract. The documents, supported by transcripts of tape-recorded conversations, were filed in response to efforts by the city to resis
Sep 16, 2011, 10:06 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Post member receives Distinguished Service AwardNews Story
GoArmy earns highest-level civilian decoration for saving a woman and two children Two Sailors and one civilian received the Distinguished Service Award during a ceremony held in the Bop Hope Theater at Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar Oct. 2. For Lottery Post members, it is a special moment of pride, as one of their own earned the highest-level civilian distinction. Electronics Technician 1st Class (SW) Verlon Cox, who goes by the member name GoArmy at Lottery Post, Mineman 1st Cl
Oct 16, 2007, 3:18 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Oops, Georgia Lottery can't find a C8 Corvette to award man who won 'Corvette and Cash' gameNews Story
By Kate Northrop A Georgia man who won the top prize of a C8 Corvette in a scratch-off lottery game is having trouble claiming his prized car, as the Georgia Lottery is unable to locate a car to award him. Dennis Kahler did not get what he bargained for after playing and winning the Corvette and Cash scratch-off game for $5. After discovering that his ticket would earn him the top prize of $250,000 plus a Corvette, the Georgia Lottery found itself in a bind when it could not locate a singl
Jan 20, 2021, 5:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Investigation: Illinois Lottery didn't award 40% of scratch-off grand prizesReply
As pressure was building to change the structure of the deals, Northstar began the final four of the 17 games studied. The last three awarded every grand prize, and since then games have generally printed fewer tickets and are on track to award a greater share of grand prizes. So the only reason they awarded every grand prize was because they knew they were being replaced. So they don't award all the grand prizes, print more tickets then they will need and even shut the game
Dec 9, 2016, 10:34 pm - ckrakowski - Lottery News

$2 million Hoosier Lottery winner has to give ex-wife $50,000Reply
Magic 007, it appears to be the latter. As the possibly fair $50,000 judgment award [that's $10,000 -- non-taxed again by Fed and State, paid five times annually to his wife during the time of win and claim) is 2.5% of the full advertised $2,000,000 annuitized jackpot win. I understand your confusion though, the article never stated, so we readers have no idea, if he received the annuitized value (paying lower annual taxes 30 times in a much lower tax bracket) or the cash value (receiving 1
Apr 24, 2014, 3:30 pm - HaveABall - Lottery News

Lotto winner shot by deputies wins settlementReply
Well, getting shot five times by one police officer and two times by the other (good aim) is dreadful on one's own property. I believe that the police officers knew who owned the property, and what the homeowners looked like. Certainly, any good training should have told the two police officers that their uniforms probably weren't identifiable in the dark, and so should have identified themselves upon hearing halt from possibly a homeowner!!! I think that $3.2 million dollars, nontaxable, pa
Sep 1, 2011, 4:41 pm - HaveABall - Lottery News

Worker accused of stealing winning Oregon lottery ticketReply
But people have found tickets in FL and claimed them, and the Lottery awarded them the entire prize. If the original owner doesn't come forward, I could see why the lottery would award it to the bearer. But if someone else comes forward and has some type of proof they lost it or that it was stolen, would the lottery still award the prize to the bearer? Or would they let the courts decide? I just thought of the movie Thelma Louise. It's been too long since I saw that movie, I d
Jan 9, 2008, 5:55 pm - LuckyLilly - Lottery News

Lotto winner's ex-wife fights backReply
> This is the same reason I don't believe in Alimony either. This is not lottery related but is a humorous-but-true aside on alimony. Years ago, a radio/TV personality named Henry Morgan (was a regular on the old What's My Line show) was shocked when his wife was awarded a substantial alimony award ... part of which was to pay for the rent on a Manhattan apartment they both used to live in prior to their split. Morgan's approach was interesting. He didn't challenge the alimony award at all.
Jan 5, 2006, 5:31 pm - AlecWest - Lottery News