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Pennsylvania iLottery hits $21.6 million in salesNews Story
Rivals complaints lead to marketing changes Pennsylvania's brand new online lottery, the iLottery, reported sales of $21.6 million in its first 26 days from its launch on June 4, despite the best efforts of the land-based casino industry to sink it in the first few weeks. Lottery Executive Director Drew Svitko told local media on Monday that 45,000 players had registered and the iLottery had paid out $18.7 million in prize money during the period, despite the initial roll out offering just
Jul 12, 2018, 10:08 am - Lottery News

WV Lottery Commission establishes rules for sports bettingNews Story
The West Virginia Lottery Commission has set its rules for sports betting in the state, following an emergency meeting Thursday. West Virginia Lottery Director Alan Larrick said the commission passed the sports betting rules, effective Thursday, to give the state's five casinos plenty of time to familiarize themselves with the various regulations outlined in the rules. We're trying to do everything we can to get sports betting available by football season that's what our goal is, Larrick
Jun 22, 2018, 9:41 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts official warns lottery could become "irrelevant"News Story
With time running out again on a bill that would authorize the Massachusetts Lottery to move online, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg offered a message to business leaders Wednesday morning: We don't want to go the way of Toys R Us. The massive toy store chain announced plans to shut down its operations on March 15 and is now running liquidation sales across its more than 800 locations. Goldberg, whose office oversees the Lottery, said Toys R Us was very late to the game to beginning to sell the
Jun 13, 2018, 10:01 pm - Lottery News

Australia moves to ban 'fake' online lottery wageringNews Story
Controversial lottery-betting service Lottoland described Australian legislation that will in effect banish it from the country as unnecessary and misguided , while newsagents and lottery sellers have welcomed the decision. The Australian government on Tuesday said it would introduce new legislation to Parliament to prohibit so-called synthetic lotteries , in which gamblers can bet on foreign lottery outcomes rather than having to buy tickets in any draw. The bill, to be introduced by Comm
May 2, 2018, 8:23 am - Lottery News

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 - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery often pulls plug on high-dollar scratch-off games before all prizes can be wonNews Story
Brittany Mowell and her husband purchase Hoosier Lottery scratch-off tickets a couple of times a week in hopes they'll win big. The Indianapolis woman said she felt cheated out of that dream once she learned the lottery was pulling certain high-dollar scratch-off games off the market before all the big-money prizes could be won and paid out. It felt so unfair she questioned whether such a move was legal. That really ticks me off, Mowell said, and I feel ripped off. Not only is the
Apr 6, 2018, 1:48 pm - Lottery News

Two CT Lottery employees suspended without pay for their roles in botched raffle drawingNews Story
Two middle-level Connecticut Lottery Corp. employees have been suspended without pay in the continuing fallout from a million-dollar mistake in the Jan. 1 drawing that selected winners in the New Year's Super Draw game. Disciplined for neglect of duty were drawing supervisor Valerie Guglielmo and investigator Robert Balicki. Both served on a five-member drawing team that mistakenly excluded 100,000 of 214,601 eligible tickets that had been sold to players. The error resulted in a do-over draw
Mar 23, 2018, 8:47 pm - Lottery News

IGT executive hired as NC Lottery chiefNews Story
A top leader at a gambling operations vendor was hired Tuesday to become the North Carolina Education Lottery's next executive director. The lottery commission voted unanimously to hire Mark Michalko, a vice president and managing director for International Game Technology's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The commission's search for a new lottery chief began soon after Alice Garland, the executive director since late 2010, announced last fall she would retire at the end of
Mar 14, 2018, 2:53 pm - Lottery News

More millennials than seniors losing money to scamsNews Story
Forget the clich of the vulnerable senior citizen falling victim to scammers a larger share of young people reported that they lost money to fraud than older individuals did in 2017. Among consumers ages 20 to 29, 40% of those who made fraud complaints to the Federal Trade Commission lost money, compared with just 18% of those who were ages 70 and older, according to an annual report from the federal agency released Thursday. The report examined consumer complaints made to the FTC in 2017.
Mar 4, 2018, 10:12 pm - Lottery News

UK's oldest lottery winners claim £18 million jackpotNews Story
Includes video report A couple from Bristol have become the oldest winners of the UK lottery, after claiming an 18 million (US$24.9 million) jackpot. Speaking at a hotel in Gloucestershire on Tuesday as they announced their good fortune, Dennis Banfield, 87, became emotional as he tried to describe what the win meant to him. He added that he and his wife, Shirley, 83, will share their winnings with their daughters. Banfield, who was in hospital over Christmas following an operation for
Feb 28, 2018, 7:42 am - Lottery News