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New York man accused of running lottery con gameNews Story
A Rochester, New York, man has been accused of running a lottery con game in which three senior citizens were persuaded to send him a total of $138,000 in order to claim their mega-bucks winnings. The winnings were fictitious but the crime was real, federal prosecutors say: Roydel Nicholson was charged Friday with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the scheme, which he allegedly ran from his apartment on Van Auker Street. A criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. Di
Apr 25, 2015, 8:18 am - Lottery News

3 face charges in Indiana Lottery scamNews Story
Three people redeemed a fraudulent Hoosier Lottery ticket worth $2 million, buying a home and several vehicles with the money before police caught on to the scam, court documents allege. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry announced in a news conference Thursday that two men and a woman all relatives are facing 15 criminal counts in connection with a lottery fraud scheme that raked in more than $1.1 million. Ashlee Parsley, Jackie Parsley II and Joseph Parsley face theft, forgery and mone
Apr 24, 2015, 11:38 am - 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 - Lottery News

State lotteries head to Washington to enforce states' rights on gamblingNews Story
Restoration of America's Wire Act legislation would restrict your rights to spend your money as you please State Lottery officials from across the United States held meetings with members of Congress today in Washington, D.C., to add their voices to those of state lawmakers advocating for the federal government to continue to support states' authority to establish their own gambling policies. The lottery officials expressed their concerns about proposed federal legislation designed to res
Mar 25, 2015, 10:57 am - Lottery News

China's beloved national lottery suspected of massive fraudNews Story
China loves its national lottery, but now some very suspicious goings-on with the game has ignited a scandal that's capturing the country's attention. As in most other places, the drawing for China's lottery the only form of gambling the government allows outside of Macau is televised nationally, conducted by the China Welfare Lottery Issuing and Management Center, an agency of the government. But something appears to have gone wrong Sunday night, when the drawing for a 50-billion-yuan ($8
Jan 27, 2015, 10:02 am - 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 - Lottery News

California gas station manager allegedly kept winning lottery scratchersNews Story
The former manager of a San Bruno gas station has been charged with cheating people who purchased California lottery scratchers after he figured out a way to secretly check which tickets were winners. He would then sell the losing tickets to gas station patrons. Most people who bought the scratcher tickets probably never noticed something was odd, but one customer did notice her ticket had been tampered with. At the bottom of the ticket there were markings as though someone had scratche
Jan 13, 2015, 8:45 pm - Lottery News

Scamming store owner loses lottery licenseNews Story
RD's Deli and Market in Melrose, Massachusetts, will no longer be selling lottery tickets now that its owner has been accused of trying to scam a mentally disabled woman out of her winnings. The woman bought a winning ticket worth $10,000 at the convenience store, but when she went to redeem it, the store's owner allegedly told her that the prize was only $1,000, and gave her $950 in cash. Separate from the attempt to scam the woman, handing out that much cash is, in itself, a violation, a
Dec 20, 2014, 10:55 pm - Lottery News

NJ lottery winners still receiving welfare, food stamps, audit saysNews Story
An audit sniffing out fraud in New Jersey's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program detected 66 lottery winners who were perhaps too lucky. They were all welfare and food stamps beneficiaries who had each won more than $10,000, including one person who had been collecting $1,000 a week from the Win for Life scratch-off game prior to 2009. Ten other winners netted more than $100,000 in lottery proceeds from 2011 to 2013. All of them were still collecting food stamps this year, according to t
Dec 6, 2014, 2:52 pm - Lottery News

NJ Lottery investigating retailer lottery ticket 'discounting' practicesNews Story
Some people seem to have all the luck. And in New Jersey, some of the luckiest people are retailers who sell lottery tickets. Or so it appears from the New Jersey Lottery's list of winners. An Asbury Park Press review of Lottery claims submitted since 2009 found that half of the 20 most frequent prizewinners are either licensed lottery retailers or family members of store operators. As a group, those 10 people collected 840 prizes totaling almost $1.8 million, the Press found. About 70
Dec 6, 2014, 11:30 am - Lottery News