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TennCare reminds enrollees that Tennessee lottery prizes are incomeNews Story
Enrollees must report prizes of $600 or moreTennCare enrollees who hit the jackpot playing the Tennessee Lottery may not be as lucky as they think.Winnings more than $600 must be reported to the state's health-care program for the poor and disabled, or the enrollee risks a fraud investigation. People need to know that lottery winnings count as income, TennCare Bureau spokeswoman Marilyn Elam said.TennCare's 1.3 million enrollees always have been required to report any change in income. The new
Mar 31, 2004, 4:30 am - Lottery News

Iowa woman pleads innocent in Powerball lottery theftNews Story
A Fonda, Iowa, woman has pleaded innocent to theft for allegedly claiming a $100,000 lottery prize after several people had pooled money to buy tickets.Mary Farrell, 54, is charged in Buena Vista County District Court with one count of first-degree theft. She entered her plea Monday.Farrell had presented a Powerball ticket matching five numbers from the Dec. 31 to claim a $100,000 prize. A group of Albert City, Iowa, residents contacted the Buena Vista Sheriff's Office in January, asking the she
Mar 30, 2004, 4:27 am - Lottery News

GTECH is in play in BrazilNews Story
Analysts don't think a political scandal will hurt the company's chances of continuing to run the country's lotteryA top Brazilian government official allegedly told two GTECH Holdings Corp. employees in 2003 that they could have a lottery contract extension.All they needed to do, said Waldomiro Diniz, the former deputy head of parliamentary affairs, was hire a consultant for between $4 million and about $6 million, according to Brazilian newspaper reports based on the employees' testimony.A lot
Mar 26, 2004, 9:15 am - Lottery News

Alleged high-tech roulette scam "easy to set up"News Story
An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a London casino with 1.3 million recently sounds too implausible even for a movie plot.But a physicist who developed a technology-based system that famously beat the wheel in the 1970s has told New Scientist that in theory it would have been fairly easy to carry out with a little know-how and the right tools.Two men and a woman were arrested on 16 March after raking in a huge win over two evenings. Suspicious casino staff are
Mar 25, 2004, 5:20 am - Lottery News

Colorado lottery bill would tighten ethics rulesNews Story
One of the Colorado state Senate's most powerful members unveiled legislation designed to prdvent conflicts of interest at the Colorado Lottery.The legislation was created in concert with an ethics overhaul already underway at the Lottery and as the Arapahoe County district attorney is deciding whether to file criminal charges based on a recently concluded probe of the Lottery by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.The legislation, in part, would bar Lottery officials from taking jobs with agen
Mar 23, 2004, 4:24 am - Lottery News

Gang arrested after £1.3m win at Ritz casinoNews Story
Three people have been arrested on suspicion of using James Bond-style electronic trickery to win almost 1.3 million at a London casino.The Metropolitan Police said today that two men and a woman, all from Eastern Europe, had been arrested for allegedly obtaining money by deception.They are accused of using a scanner inserted into a mobile phone and hooked up to a microcomputer to calculate where a roulette ball would probably fall after the third turn of the wheel.The Daily Mirror newspaper re
Mar 22, 2004, 4:41 pm - Lottery News

Two Wisconsin brothers arrested in lottery tickets theftNews Story
Two brothers from Antigo, Wisconsin were jailed Tuesday after they were caught trying to cash stolen lottery tickets.The Shawano County Sheriffs Department said the tickets were among 2,184 Wisconsin Lottery tickets taken from a burglary at the Remington Oil gas station in Birnamwood about 3 a.m. Tuesday. Police said a front window had been smashed to gain entry to the station.Police were notified when three young men attempted to cash the stolen tickets here about 10 a.m. Birnamwood Police Chie
Mar 18, 2004, 4:20 am - Lottery News

Lottery scammer gets 18 monthsNews Story
A native of Russia was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday in federal court in Chicago for taking part in a telemarketing scam that cheated mostly elderly victims in the United States and Canada.Typically, victims were led to believe they had won a large cash prize but first had to send money to cover duty costs, taxes or liens.One 81-year-old woman from Aurora, repeatedly hit up for more and more money, dventually lost more than $200,000 in the scheme, authorities said.In pleading guilty
Mar 11, 2004, 5:20 am - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery violations detailed in reportNews Story
Report cites gift-taking, coziness with vendors for 4 yearsThe Colorado Bureau of Investigation has sent the Arapahoe County district attorney a report that details widespread gift-taking and policy violations in the offices of the Colorado Lottery.The report focuses largely on the last four years of the tenure of former Lottery head Mark Zamarripa, alleging that he presided over a culture of coziness with vendors, according to sources familiar with the report.Department of Revenue chief M. Mich
Mar 10, 2004, 4:16 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts awards lottery prize to rightful ownerNews Story
For someone who said she only had $400 to her name before yesterday, Erika Schmitt is smiling at 35 times that amount after finally getting the $14,000 she won playing a Lucky Stars lottery game. This is a lot for me, Schmitt said yesterday after Joseph Sullivan, director of the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission, handed her a check. I'm going to get a haircut and a car. The 18-year-old Westborough resident waited more than a month for the money because a Westborough store clerk allegedly
Mar 4, 2004, 4:19 am - Lottery News