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MUSL CHIEF OUSTED OVER JACKPOT-RIGGING SCANDALNews Story
Key industry official has run Powerball from its inception Bret Toyne appointed interim executive director A prominent lottery official who has run the Powerball game since its inception was quietly removed from his 28-year post leading the Multi-State Lottery Association after a jackpot-fixing scandal inside his organization got bigger, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. Charles Strutt, executive director of the association since its 1987 founding, was stripped o
Dec 23, 2015, 2:39 pm - Lottery News

Kansas lottery players questioning game's integrityNews Story
Lottery players are now questioning the integrity of the game after learning that rigged lottery tickets were sold in Kansas. I'm not sure if I'm going to buy lottery tickets anymore or not, because I don't have a chance to win because he is rigging the numbers, said one avid Kansas lottery player. Lottery ticket holders are angry after finding out that Kansas is the latest state connected to a lottery scandal. Back in July Eddie Tipton, the former lottery Security Director for the Iow
Dec 23, 2015, 2:30 pm - Lottery News

Maine gives names of Hot Lotto winners to Iowa team looking into rigging schemeNews Story
The names of Mainers who won cash prizes in the Hot Lotto game between 2010 and 2014 have been forwarded to Iowa officials investigating a burgeoning jackpot fixing case that may have affected winnings in at least five states. Officials with the Maine State Lottery said Hot Lotto winners and prize amounts were shared with the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigations. To date, investigators have not discovered any link between Maine Hot Lotto winners and Eddie Tipton, a former security offic
Dec 23, 2015, 2:25 pm - Lottery News

S.C. Lottery assures public no computerized drawings used in stateNews Story
Disastrous computerized drawing scandal sparks public distrust, even in states with real lotto ball drawings Other states may be tainted by an alleged lottery scam involving rigged winning numbers, but not South Carolina, says S.C. Education Lottery executive director Paula Harper Bethea. We don't have the random-number generator in South Carolina, and we don't sell the Hot Lotto game, Bethea said Tuesday in response to a query. Instead, she said, We do live draws, where a human being
Dec 23, 2015, 8:46 am - Lottery News

Prosecutors say Tipton rigged two jackpots he purchased tickets for in KansasNews Story
MUSL computerized drawing scandal now confirmed in 5 states, still looking for more The former security chief for a national association that operates lotteries personally bought two tickets that won jackpots in Kansas, investigators said Monday, bringing to five the number of states where he may have rigged lottery drawings. Investigators recently linked Kansas jackpots won in 2010 to Eddie Tipton, the former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, Iowa assistant attorne
Dec 21, 2015, 7:58 pm - Lottery News

Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteriesNews Story
The allegations read like a movie plot: a lottery industry insider installs an undetectable software program in the computers that pick winning numbers so he can know them in advance. He enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. And they enrich themselves for years until a misstep unravels their high-tech scheme. Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, has been accused of tampering with drawings in four states over a six-year pe
Dec 18, 2015, 4:33 pm - Lottery News

Another $1.2M Hot Lotto jackpot rigged by Tipton, officials sayNews Story
Ticket was sold in Oklahoma A $1.2 million jackpot-winning Hot Lotto ticket sold in Oklahoma in 2011 has been connected to a former security official of a multi-state lottery vendor accused of rigging lotteries in four different states, a lottery official said Friday. Oklahoma Lottery Director Rollo Redburn said a criminal investigation in Iowa has been expanded to include the winning ticket sold at the Miki Mart in Idabel in November 2011. Eddie Tipton, a former security director of th
Nov 21, 2015, 8:02 am - Lottery News

Texas authorities had previously investigated brother of lottery cheatNews Story
By Todd Northrop The outrageous Hot Lotto rigging scandal that started in Iowa is now spreading into other states including Texas. Officials are taking a second look at a $570,000 winning multi-state lottery ticket purchased a decade ago in Colorado by a Central Texas judge. The investigation does not involve the Texas state lottery. Tommy Tipton, the subject of the investigation, is a Fayette County Justice of the Peace for Precinct 3, based in Flatonia. According to records from the T
Oct 14, 2015, 10:01 am - Lottery News

HOT LOTTO DRAWING CHEAT CHARGED WITH RIGGING MORE JACKPOTSNews Story
Computerized drawing nightmare: Colorado, Wisconsin jackpots may have been rigged Authorities say criminal enterprise ongoing for years Includes video report By Todd Northrop Authorities on Friday filed new charges against a former Iowa Lottery security officer who was convicted months ago of rigging a Hot Lotto game so he could win a $14 million jackpot. Authorities are now asking the public to report any similar cases around the country. Representatives for the Iowa Lottery a
Oct 9, 2015, 8:50 pm - Lottery News

ILLINOIS LOTTERY MOVES TO COMPUTERIZED DRAWINGSNews Story
By Todd Northrop If the Illinois Lottery issued stocks, now would be the time to sell. Despite widespread player sentiment that is strongly against computerized drawings, the Illinois Lottery stated Friday that it is dropping real lottery ball drawings, and moving to the despised computerized draws. Computerized drawings are conducted by having a computer system that picks the winning numbers using a Random Number Generator, or RNG . Players generally dislike the fact that it is imposs
Sep 25, 2015, 2:15 pm - Lottery News