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N.C. Lottery commissioner on lottery firm payroll for yearsNews Story
Four years before North Carolina lawmakers created the state lottery, a for-profit lottery company was paying former state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings to work as a consultant, a company executive said Monday at Geddings' fraud trial. Patrick Traub, an executive at Scientific Games Corp., affirmed government evidence showing that Geddings received $9,668.66 in April 2001 from a company later acquired by Scientific Games. An invoice from Geddings' public relations firm stated the payme
Sep 25, 2006, 1:51 pm - Lottery News

Trial in N.C. lottery fraud case beginsNews Story
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that former N.C. lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings spent 60 telltale days last year working for a lottery company, holding a state lottery post and deceiving the public. In opening statements in Geddings' fraud case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Duffy said Geddings had a lucrative relationship with lottery vendor Scientific Games that was a conflict of interest as a commissioner. By failing to disclose the relationship, Duffy said Geddings violated a law
Sep 22, 2006, 2:30 pm - Lottery News

Woman sentenced to life in prison for slaying of lottery winnerNews Story
A 23-year-old woman has been convicted of helping kidnap her lottery-winning brother-in-law and then executing the man, who was also her lover, with a shot to the head. Victoria Jackson was sentenced to life in prison immediately after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in the July 2005 slaying of Jeffrey Dampier, an Illinois lottery winner turned Florida popcorn entrepreneur who was married to Jackson's sister. Prosecutors said Jackson and boyfriend Nathaniel Jackson,
Sep 22, 2006, 2:08 pm - Lottery News

Former BETonSPORTS CEO Carruthers freed on bondNews Story
David Carruthers, the former chief executive of indicted online gaming company BETonSPORTS Plc, was freed on Wednesday on $1 million bond with strict curbs on his movements. Carruthers, 48, must wear an electronic monitoring device and remain confined to a St. Louis residence except for special circumstances until his trial on racketeering and fraud charges, according to the court-ordered terms of his bond. BETonSPORTS fired Carruthers after his July 16 arrest during a layover at a Texas
Aug 16, 2006, 5:21 pm - Lottery News

Bail set at $1m for UK internet gaming bossNews Story
The former BETonSPORTS chief executive David Carruthers is likely to be released on $1m bail within days under a deal with the American government which would allow him to live in the Midwestern city of St Louis until his trial for organizing illegal gambling. Mr. Carruthers was one of eight people connected to BETonSPORTS who appeared in Missouri's federal court yesterday to enter pleas of not guilty in relation to charges of fraud, racketeering and unlawful gaming. Among the others caugh
Aug 1, 2006, 10:30 am - Lottery News

Net gambling ban bill set for Senate strifeNews Story
A bill to ban Internet gambling faces opposition in the US Senate but backers still hope to win passage of it within a few weeks, a top aide to US Senate majority leader Bill Frist said on Thursday. Eric Ueland, Frist's chief of staff, said: We are trying to get something done before the August recess, which is set to begin on 4 August. Earlier on Thursday, another Frist aide said lawmakers are still working on the bill but will not be able to vote on it before the Senate heads off for i
Jul 21, 2006, 8:27 am - Lottery News

Dallas arrest sparks fears of internet gambling crackdownNews Story
Analysts say timing of arrest may be designed to influence legislative process The internet gambling industry was in disarray last night after the Scottish chief executive of BetOnSports, the Costa Rica-based operator, was arrested by the US federal authorities at Dallas Fort Worth airport. In a brief hearing at a federal district court in Fort Worth, Texas, prosecutors said that David Carruthers and several others were charged with conspiracy to offer bets on professional and college spor
Jul 18, 2006, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Lottery company used 'sucker lists' to target elderlyNews Story
The New York Attorney General's office has secured $110,000 in restitution and civil penalties from three Erie County individuals who targeted senior citizens through a telemarketing scam involving the sale of winning lottery numbers. Michael J. Geiger and Michael D. Marranca, the owners of Multi-Plays of America, Inc. and the company's general manager, Noelle M. Alessandra, all consented to the court order that permanently bars them from telemarketing to consumers or for charitable purpose
Jun 9, 2006, 7:51 am - Lottery News

Lawsuit over $315 million lottery jackpot goes to trialNews Story
A California lab technician's lawsuit seeking a share of the $315 million Mega Millions multi-state lottery jackpot divvied up by seven co-workers will go to trial. Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael Brenner on Monday set an April 2 trial date for Jonathan De La Cruz's lawsuit against the seven winners. De La Cruz said he had been part of the group that bought lottery tickets, but was off the day they bought the winning ticket. His lawsuit, filed in December, contends the group had
Jun 6, 2006, 7:06 pm - Lottery News

$8 million lottery dispute grips SpainNews Story
Like many factory workers around the world, they dreamed of winning the lottery and retiring early to enjoy their riches. But when the numbers came up for the group of Spanish workmates, joy quickly turned to despair after the one who collected the prize denied that there had ever been a deal to share the money. Now a judge in Barcelona must decide whether Antonio Lloreda Capillo is entitled to keep the 6 million (US$7.7 million) jackpot or must share it with 19 colleagues from the lotte
May 25, 2006, 8:18 pm - Lottery News