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Lottery jackpot rigger's Iowa convictions dismissedReply
In a news article titled Five times computer programmer Eddie Tipton rigged lottery draws - and won millions Accused of installing software on Random Number Generators that allowed him to predict winning combinations for drawings that occurred on three dates every non-leap year Nov. 23, Dec. 29 and May 27 Do you think he wasn t greedy enough to buy a ticket on all the winning days. Believe me that is all he got caught on. What makes me sick is The brothers will repay $3 mill
Jun 25, 2017, 6:26 am - lotto holic - Lottery News

No $50K bonus for Washington retailer who sold winning lottery ticketReply
This doesn't surprise me and causes me upset with all these changes that the states lay claim to nowadays. So the legislature decides to get rid of bonuses in Washington and just keep taking from the lottery playing public and people like Singh who owns the store that won the ticket, even when they are clearly wrong for doing so. No wonder people are angrier with government. I had played the lottery in the past when it seemed less contrived and rigged. I hope lottery players are angr
Mar 11, 2016, 12:22 pm - Lucklives - Lottery News

Kansas lottery players questioning game's integrityNews Story
Lottery players are now questioning the integrity of the game after learning that rigged lottery tickets were sold in Kansas. I'm not sure if I'm going to buy lottery tickets anymore or not, because I don't have a chance to win because he is rigging the numbers, said one avid Kansas lottery player. Lottery ticket holders are angry after finding out that Kansas is the latest state connected to a lottery scandal. Back in July Eddie Tipton, the former lottery Security Director for the Iow
Dec 23, 2015, 2:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery assures public no computerized drawings used in stateNews Story
Disastrous computerized drawing scandal sparks public distrust, even in states with real lotto ball drawings Other states may be tainted by an alleged lottery scam involving rigged winning numbers, but not South Carolina, says S.C. Education Lottery executive director Paula Harper Bethea. We don't have the random-number generator in South Carolina, and we don't sell the Hot Lotto game, Bethea said Tuesday in response to a query. Instead, she said, We do live draws, where a human being
Dec 23, 2015, 8:46 am - Todd - Lottery News

ILLINOIS LOTTERY MOVES TO COMPUTERIZED DRAWINGSNews Story
By Todd Northrop If the Illinois Lottery issued stocks, now would be the time to sell. Despite widespread player sentiment that is strongly against computerized drawings, the Illinois Lottery stated Friday that it is dropping real lottery ball drawings, and moving to the despised computerized draws. Computerized drawings are conducted by having a computer system that picks the winning numbers using a Random Number Generator, or RNG . Players generally dislike the fact that it is imposs
Sep 25, 2015, 2:15 pm - Todd - Lottery News

NY lottery retailer won 16 times in 2 yearsNews Story
A Bronx businessman who has won more big lottery prizes than any other New Yorker doesn't have to go far to buy tickets he owns a store that sells them. Armand Paganelli scored an astounding 16 winning tickets in 2013 and 2014, amassing a tidy $625,000 in jackpots. One was $250,000; the others were $25,000 apiece. The winning ducats were all bought at the drugstore Paganelli owns with his brothers Mt. Carmel Pharmacy on East 187th Street. The Ossining resident has won more $10,000-plus
Jun 7, 2015, 8:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas man charged in Iowa lottery case contests extraditionNews Story
A Texas businessman accused of helping a lottery security official to try to claim a rigged $14 million jackpot is out of jail while he fights extradition to Iowa. Robert Rhodes, 46, of Sugar Land, Texas, left a county jail after posting bond April 9, three weeks after his arrest on two counts of fraud, court records show. He's expected to contest his extradition to Iowa during a May 7 hearing and is under electronic monitoring in the meantime. Rhodes is denying charges that he worked with
Apr 20, 2015, 7:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Texas Woman Scammed by 'Friend' in 'Facebook Lottery'News Story
Includes video report A woman in Texas says she was the victim of a well-worn scam, but what was unique in her case was that the fraudulent pitch came to her through a Facebook friend and was allegedly endorsed by President Obama. Kris White admits that she shouldn't have been fooled last week by the Facebook message saying she had won $250,000 in a Facebook Powerball lottery, ABC News affiliate KTRK reported. She said she was shown documents that wrote United States with lowercase letters
May 23, 2014, 2:05 pm - Todd - Lottery News

$319M Mega Millions lottery ticket redeemedReply
CT I still think it is just chance, If luck and chance are the same then if one can improve their chances then I guess luck would also be increased. The women had the correct numbers and that is why she won. If I make a mistake filling out my playslips I call it a mistake. I can' t change the numbers that will be drawn but I can play a smarter set, if they don't hit it does not mean that my numbers selected were unlucky it just means that they did not match the draw. No system wi
Mar 30, 2011, 2:33 pm - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Lottery News

Lottery winner facing tax fraud trial diesNews Story
Editor's Note: A less in-depth news story about this lottery winner was posted earlier today: $13 million Florida Lotto winner dies a pauper Former lottery multi-millionaire Alex Toth, who was broke and facing tax fraud charges, has died at the age of 60. Toth was scheduled to go on trial in June, accused of filing fake tax returns with his wife, Rhoda, who has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. By the time the couple were charged in 2006, authorities said they appeared to have
Apr 25, 2008, 7:11 pm - Todd - Lottery News