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South Florida musician gets prison term for lottery fraudNews Story
A South Florida musician who helped funnel money from elderly victims of a $500,000 lottery hoax was sentenced Tuesday to three years and five months in federal prison. Delroy Drummond, aka Top Banga, 26, of Hollywood and Miami Gardens, admitted he worked with allies who contacted seniors all over the U.S. and duped them into believing they had won a lottery prize. The victims were told they had to pre-pay several thousands of dollars in taxes and fees before their winnings could be turned
Jun 1, 2016, 8:07 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

MUSL employee arrested in Hot Lotto jackpot mysteryNews Story
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has made an arrest in the four-year-old case involving a winning Hot Lotto ticket worth more than $16 million which the winner mysteriously decided not to claim. Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, of Norwalk, was arrested on Thursday. He has been charged with two counts of fraud, which are class D felonies. Tipton is Director of Information Security for the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which is a vendor of the Iowa Lottery. His job prohibits hi
Jan 15, 2015, 10:44 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Undercover officers catch store clerks keeping winning lottery ticketsReply
Where I live in New York in many of the stores have lottery scanners that don't work . I had my own experience several times where I had to have the clerk scan the tickets and have been cheated out of my money. I know one store in particular that I no longer frequent because I have seen the clerk scan the tickets because the scanner is broken and say you have a $50 winner they will tell you that you have a $40 winner and keep your $10 it's up to you to know how much you won before giving the cle
May 2, 2014, 11:17 pm - Lexi26 - Lottery News

UK lottery winner recounts downsides of winningReply
Recon MegaSuperPower some would be targeting you to have consensual sex and then cry rape with the dna evidence intact? After your arrest, their lawyer would contact you and agree not to press charges for a million! What choices will you have SuperMan? Take alot of trips by yourself way out of state or country and introduce yourself as John Smith! Otherwise date rich gals exclusively at that point! Cheers!
Dec 29, 2013, 11:41 pm - veganlife125 - Lottery News

Pa. lawmaker wants to give lottery winners right to remain anonymousReply
When did Dee Dee Moore become Abraham Shakespeare? It took an arrest and a trail before they could punsih her, but would you seriously argue that she didn't become his killer as soon as he was dead? That the ticket needs to be validated is irrelevant. It may result in a determination that somebody isn't a winner, but I don't see a valid argument that you despite bneing the lawful owner of the winning ticket you don't become a winner until the validation process is started, let alone finished.
Dec 14, 2013, 4:18 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

NJ $338 million Powerball winner and ex-girlfriend in court over moneyReply
Have been watching this Pedro of a guy and with my best opinion l think he should be in the tv show the Biggest losser instead. First of all with all that money if you can't make the woman closest to you happy after you won then maybe you lucky she didn't use cyanide like the other lady did to her husband . Am not trying to be mean to pedro just that he was a deadbeat dad b4 he won money which i can understand because money is hard to come by but a dead beat to your woman now that you got the mo
Nov 12, 2013, 9:08 pm - JoeBigLotto - Lottery News

Woman found guilty of murder in lottery winner's deathReply
Where are you getting this information from? Abraham's arrest record only has non payment of child support which was rectified when he hit the lottery. Where are you getting this stuff about drugs? drug seller? Even if he did sell drugs, so what? I don't see where that has anything to do with what happened to him. He was mildly mentally retarded or SLD. Either one of these causes the person not to be able to make rational decisions specially if they have to be made quickly. He probably thought a
Dec 11, 2012, 5:39 pm - Littleoldlady - Lottery News

Mechanic and his wife are Missouri winners of $588M Powerball jackpotReply
Wow just noticed!!! Congrat's Ronnie316!!! No more house arrest.
Dec 1, 2012, 9:37 am - mcginnin56 - Lottery News

Mich. lottery winner who kept collecting welfare found deadReply
Didn't she win her $1 million on a lottery TV game show witnessed by thousands of people? The only Lottery related issue relevant to her death is some of her winning were used to purchase the drugs if in fact that was the cause of her death. The fact she won a large lottery prize really wasn't very news worthy until she was arrested and convicted of welfare fraud. Had she been allowed to claim the money anonymously, the Michigan State welfare agency would have still found the fraud and her ar
Oct 1, 2012, 2:01 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News