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Tennessee Lottery: confusion not being cleared upNews Story
Lottery CEO not making audit intentions clear The Tennessee Lottery is investigating a handful of glitches since changing the system for pulling winning numbers to a computer, but then again, are they really? That's a question that nobody outside the lottery seems to know the answer to for sure. State Senator Bill Ketron, the co-chair of the Lottery Oversight Committee, is calling for a complete audit of lottery procedures. We want to go back and look at all the processes up till w
Oct 4, 2007, 6:30 pm - Lottery News

FLASH: Tennessee Lottery audit won't investigate drawing errorsNews Story
Out-of-control situation gets worse Legislators shocked to learn investigation won't study why errors occurred The Tennessee Lottery hired an outside auditor after a computer issue affected the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games in August, but the auditor will not examine why the system failed. Lottery officials previously said KPMG would be paid about $90,000 to look into the problem that kept repeat numbers from being drawn for those games for more than three weeks in August. But a letter ob
Oct 3, 2007, 12:02 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery oversight committee to convene in NovemberNews Story
By Todd Northrop Accounting firm to audit lottery and provide results to committee Following a disastrous couple of months for Tennessee Lottery, the legislature has decided to convene a meeting of the Oversight Committee and audit the lottery's operations. Senator Bill Ketron and Representative Ulysses Jones are co-chairs of the committee. According to a staffer in Senator Ketron's office, the committee has met several times in the past, mainly to discuss issues related to education
Sep 20, 2007, 11:22 am - Lottery News

Okla. Lottery Commission struggles to meet its 35% profit requirementNews Story
As a result of the finance and audit committee's dreary budget forecasts for fiscal year 2008, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission is planning to trim costs and attempt to get a key statutory requirement of the commission eliminated. The board plans to try to amend out a requirement that the Lottery Commission post a 35-percent profit in their third year of operations. The board said they are doing all they can to trim operating costs without cutting current staff and advertising expenditures,
Sep 19, 2007, 4:34 pm - Lottery News

Newspaper Editorial: Biggest error was switching to computerized drawsNews Story
Players won't participate in a lottery they can't trust By Tennessean Editorial Staff September 2, 2007 Today's Topic: When a glitch hits the lottery Our View Any game of chance needs a high level of trust. Trust was missing during a recent stretch in the Tennessee Lottery when players who bet on digits showing up more than once were literally shut out of a chance to win because of a computer glitch. The glitch meant that people who bet on repeating numbers in the Cash 3 and Cash
Sep 2, 2007, 7:04 am - Lottery News

Official wants fraud probe of Tennessee LotteryNews Story
UPDATED (Aug. 28, 2007, 11:44 am) Internal documents added The Tennessee Lottery should investigate whether fraud was behind a computer malfunction that affected the results for Cash 3 and Cash 4 games, the lottery board's audit chairman says. James H. Ripley, a Sevierville attorney who heads the 3-year-old lottery's audit group, said the agency should probe more deeply into why a computer software problem prevented duplicate numbers from being drawn for a three-week period. A lotter
Aug 28, 2007, 9:44 am - Lottery News

Former Indiana Lottery Director cleared of ethics chargesNews Story
Inspector general finds that sponsoring GOP women's event wasn't an ethical violation The Hoosier Lottery inappropriately sponsored a luncheon for Republican women during the tenure of its former director, but neither that nor other actions rose to the level of ethics violations, the state's inspector general said. The findings essentially cleared former lottery Director Esther Schneider of allegations of cronyism, improper expenditures and other charges raised in an anonymous letter s
Aug 24, 2007, 10:58 am - Lottery News

Acting director named for New York LotteryNews Story
A former deputy director of the New York Lottery has been named acting director of the organization. Gurney replaces Robert McLaughlin, who served as Director of the New York Lottery from November, 2006 to August, 2007. Mr. McLaughlin recently accepted a position in the private sector, according to lottery officials. Gurney has worked at the lottery since 1998, and was most recently director of operations and administration in addition to being deputy director. His areas of responsibilit
Aug 12, 2007, 8:36 am - Lottery News

Quebec Lottery winners' names to kept secretNews Story
As they daydreamed about winning the jackpot yesterday, some Loto-Quebec regulars were sure about one thing. No names and definitely no picture of me in the paper, said Brigitte Serpa, a waitress at the Euro Deli on St. Laurent Blvd. who spends about $40 a month on Super 7 and 6/49 tickets. Serpa, 34, said a new Loto-Quebec policy not to publicize any details about people who win more than $4 million suits her just fine. The publicity restriction comes after an alleged extortion plot
Jul 24, 2007, 11:18 pm - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery hopes raffle will bring fiscal successNews Story
The D.C. Lottery's Quick Cash game had been around for more than 15 years when Todd Zimmerman walked into Rodman's Drugs in Northwest in February 2005 and bought two $1 tickets. With three games on each ticket, the government contractor won the maximum $250,000 jackpot for each of the six games. But the improbable $1.5 million payout also helped put the D.C. Lottery's Quick Cash game more than $640,000 in the red for the year, records show. Within months, the game was canceled, although lo
Jul 3, 2007, 9:46 pm - Lottery News