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Trading clerk surrenders to face charges of stealing lottery ticketNews Story
The trading clerk at the center of a $175,000 Mega Millions lottery ticket dispute in Chicago surrendered to police Tuesday on felony theft charges.Dora Leal, 44, of North Spaulding Avenue, showed up at Harrison Area headquarters with a lawyer and turned herself in, Cmdr. Steve Peterson said. The surrender was arranged by detectives Kenneth Krupowicz and Cleveland Thomas.The whereabouts of the disputed lottery ticket are unknown.Leal is accused of pocketing a winning ticket that a group of trade
Jan 7, 2004, 11:32 am - Lottery News

Media Battle in the Mega Millions Jackpot DisputeNews Story
Lottery Post presents a selection of photos and descriptions in the struggle over the $162 million Mega Millions jackpot.Two women one with a ticket, one tearfully without lay claim to a $162 million lottery jackpot Tuesday, triggering a legal dispute that could come down to finder's keepers or fraud.Elecia Battle went to police Monday with the teary story of a lottery ticket lost outside a convenience store, and a small crowd with flashlights soon gathered in the snowy parking lot in search o
Jan 6, 2004, 8:23 pm - Lottery News

$175,000 Mega Millions Ticket DisputeNews Story
Two traders for the Chicago Board Options Exchange filed a police complaint Friday against a trading clerk who they claim pocketed their $175,000 Mega Millions lottery ticket this week.But a family friend says she doesn't believe the clerk, whom she has known for 22 years, could have stolen anything. She's a very honest, trustworthy person, said Carole Masterson, whose brother is the father of the clerk's two children. I don't think she'd do something like this. She's not stupid. Traders, iden
Jan 3, 2004, 9:08 pm - Lottery News

House GOP pushes for gamblingNews Story
Republican leaders of the Alaska state House are pushing ahead on video poker and a state lottery and are pointing to a new poll as evidence that Alaskans are interested in more gambling. This latest poll shows that Alaskans have basically changed their attitude, said House Speaker Pete Kott, a Republican from Eagle River.But less than half the people surveyed by the recent poll supported video gambling initially. It was only after the pollster read them pro-gambling information that support fo
Nov 13, 2003, 5:20 am - Lottery News

Lost and found? $1.4M lottery ticket winds up in courtNews Story
On Sept. 16, 2002, a New Jersey Pick 6 lottery ticket was sold from the Sunshine Grocery store in Hoboken. The numbers, randomly generated as a quick pick, proved to be the very lucky indeed. But a court will have to decide for whom.Several days after the ticket was sold, a brother and sister from Union City presented the lone winning ticket in the $4 million drawing to the New Jersey Lottery Commission in Trenton. Ecstatic at their good fortune but uncertain of their English (they are from Pu
Oct 30, 2003, 5:16 am - Lottery News

Lotto Wife: He Left MeNews Story
The Melville, New York woman who hit a $25 million New York Lotto jackpot in February has spoken publicly for the first time and said that contrary to her estranged husband's claims, she didn't run out on him and it was he who left her.Connie Parker, 74, who has been married to Kenneth Parker, 77, for 16 years, said that before her husband filed for divorce in May, he emptied their safe deposit box, taking their bankbook, her passport, her birth certificate and other legal papers. I am hurt. I a
Oct 23, 2003, 3:59 am - Lottery News

Cabbies win share of Big Game jackpotNews Story
A former Atlanta cabbie says the nearly $2 million he was awarded from a disputed Big Game lottery pot is a bittersweet victory.While Patrick Atakora is an instant millionaire on paper, he and five co-defendants who each were awarded $346,357 by Fulton County Superior Court still face the challenge of collecting the money.On Tuesday, a jury found Atakora and five other West African cabdrivers in Atlanta were denied their fair share of the winnings, which were distributed to 23 other drivers. The
Oct 23, 2003, 3:46 am - Lottery News

Accomplishments of Ex-Lottery Director QuestionedNews Story
Newspaper Disputes Education SubsidyRebecca Paul was hired to start Tennessee's lottery and is paid more than her peers because of her success running Georgia's games.But some of Paul's accomplishments during her time in Georgia are overstated, according to a review by The Tennessean newspaper.For example, Paul said last month that Georgia lottery sales had grown an average of 13 percent a year during her tenure. While lottery ticket sales in Georgia climbed to $2.6 billion last year from $1.12
Oct 20, 2003, 3:55 am - Lottery News

Fox dismisses any impropriety in work for GTECHNews Story
A week before state lawmakers voted to give GTECH an exclusive, 20-year lottery contract, the Providence law firm with which House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox is associated was discussing its own proposed contract with GTECH.A Providence Democrat, Fox ascended to the second-most powerful political position in the House this year.On April 22, GTECH's top in-house lawyer had the first of several conversations with the principals in Ferrucci Russo PC -- where Fox works -- about a potential role f
Oct 1, 2003, 3:34 am - Lottery News

Luck runs out for N.Y. lottery winnersNews Story
When members of the Lucky Lotto Lady Partnership won $23 million in 1994, they thought their money woes were over for good. But nearly a decade later, the group is battling a formidable foe over its winnings: the Internal Revenue Service. This time, the Lucky Lotto Lady Partnership is going to need more than luck -- it'll need a change in federal law in order to win.The dispute is over taxes. Not whether the group should pay them, but how much of its lottery winnings should go to the IRS. And Un
Sep 29, 2003, 3:37 am - Lottery News