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Letter sent to 360 elected officials and investigatory agencies regarding fraud within NYS LotteryPrev TopicNext Topic
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Dec 11, 2015
To the NYS Legislative and Investigatory agencies,
I a filing an official complaint against the NYS Lottery division and its distribution center GTECH. For the purposes of this complaint I am going to refer to NYS Scratch off game # 596 1 million a year for life as an example but it is for all games.
NYS Lottery started game 596 in Sept of 2008. This game had 6 tops prize and 50 2nd prize winners. The end of game was called for this game for August 11, 2016, that is 8 months away (240 days approx.). The game still has 1 (ONE) top prize remaining so the retailers are allowed to sell any tickets they have left BUT there are no more tickets in the distribution center to give to the retailers anymore. BUT whatever the retailers have left they are selling, can sell and should be selling until they either sell them or the game is over, in August 11, 2016.
Last week I called out to 250 stores across Brooklyn and Staten Island to see who had tickets left. I made a list and I set out today to go buy some. I had 5000 dollars in my pocket to spend on buying tickets. After all there is still 1 top prize and 9 2nd prize winners left so I said why not. I had spoken to retailer #96802 Viraj Grocery 280 Morningstar RD 10303. I knew he had a full book that he still had and I told him I was going to come in and buy the entire book for $1500.
The owner told me that last week the agent for the area came in from the distribution center and told him “That the game was over and that any unopened books needed to be returned.” So he returned the book. I heard this from 3 different retailers today. I had heard during the summer from retailers in Huntington LI that the agents were taking back books BUT I assumed they were redistributing them to other businesses because they were unopened. So I called GTECH to ask where they redistributed the books from Staten Island. To my horror I spoke with Doreen from GTECH at 800-678-7457 and discovered that these books are being destroyed. I was horrified.
So not only does NYS Lottery and GTECH destroy ALL opened books of scratch offs from retailers that go out of business, that file chapter 11, that sell their businesses, that change ownership, that send back open books because they do not want them or cannot sell them fast enough BUT now I find out that agents are arbitrarily going around since July taking full closed books back and destroying them also.
This is a crime, it is absurd and it is a <snip> shame. At the very least it calls into question the validity of the games. How do we know that the last remaining ticket is not in the books that are currently being taken back and destroyed, let alone they that it could have been in the open books that were destroyed all of these years. This is a horrible policy, it is uncalled for and it brings into question the validity of the game that is still being sold until August of 2016.
How dare NYS Lottery and GTECH deprive the players of these games the opportunity to play and possibility win if they are going to destroy tickets and now they are doing it at random. This needs to be investigated and it needs to be addressed and changed. It has really caused huge suspicion amongst the players that NYS lottery has deprived us, the players, of a fair chance to win.
I had suggested many times that ALL unsold scratch offs could be filtered through the Resorts Casino in ozone park Queens because they move tickets so fast that accounting and accountability would be so easy and so fast to handle without the wait to sell them off. Resorts recently sold 24 separate slots on their Lottery vending machines, in 2 weeks’ time. That is 1200 $30 tickets in 2 weeks sold out. Why do tickets have to be destroyed at all? Why are tickets being destroyed by NYS Lottery? I was told that it is because it is too complicated for them to track tickets that are returned by retailers for the many reasons stated and I say that is all lies. They can be sold in the Ozone Park casinos so fast accounting would be too easy to track.
I am demanding an investigation, I am asking for the proper committees to set up hearings on this matter and I am asking the powers that be to address this situation immediately. This is causing many people to mistrust the NYS Lottery division by their antics of destroying tickets. And their answer to me was well the ticket could be in the washed jeans that someone forgot to take out. That is not for them to decide. They are supposed to be impartial and not taking sides and yet they seem to be tipping the odds in their favor by destroying tickets and possibly have destroyed the last remaining top prize and we will never have the chance to win because they did this. And I was told that there is no way to know where the ticket is or if it was destroyed. I believe they do not want to release that information because they know what the answer will be.
This practice needs to be stopped and the NYS Lottery needs to be honest and upfront with their supporters. I am dismayed and upset that they removed books from retailers and destroyed them while lying to these retailers that the game was over. IT IS NOT OVER. They just do not have any more tickets to distribute out but the tickets that are left can be sold until August 11, 2016 but lottery is not even allowing that.
It is almost like they are trying to tip the game so the last remaining prize definitely does not get claimed and that is fraud outright fraud.
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NYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY:
Hon. David Soares, ALBANY COUNTY
Hon. Terrence M. Parker, ALLEGANY COUNTY
Hon. Robert T. Johnson, BRONX COUNTY Hon. Gerald F. Mollen, BROOME COUNTY
Hon. Edward M. Sharkey, CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
Hon. Jon E. Budelmann, CAYUGA COUNTY
Hon. David W. Foley, CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
Hon. Weeden A. Wetmore, CHEMUNG COUNTY
Hon. Joseph A. McBride, CHENANGO COUNTY
Hon. Andrew J. Wylie, CLINTON COUNTY
Hon. Beth Cozzolino, COLUMBIA COUNTY
Hon. Mark Suben, CORTLAND COUNTY
Hon. Richard D. Northrup, Jr., DELAWARE COUNTY
Hon. William V. Grady, DUTCHESS COUNTY
Hon. Frank Sedita, ERIE COUNTY
Hon. Julia A. Garcia, ESSEX COUNTY
Hon. Derek P. Champagne, FRANKLIN COUNTY
Hon. Louise K. Sira, FULTON COUNTY
Hon. Lawrence Friedman, GENESEE COUNTY
Hon. Terry J. Wilhelm, GREENE COUNTY
Hon. James T. Curry, HAMILTON COUNTY
Hon. John H. Crandall, HERKIMER COUNT Hon. Cindy F. Intschert, JEFFERSON COUNTY
Hon. Charles J. Hynes, KINGS COUNTY
Hon. Leanne K. Moser, LEWIS COUNTY
Hon. Thomas E. Moran, LIVINGSTON COUNTY
Hon. William Gabor, MADISON COUNTY
Hon. Michael C. Green, MONROE COUNTY
Hon. James E. Conboy, MONTGOMERY COUNTY
Hon. Kathleen M. Rice, NASSAU COUNTY
Hon. Robert M. Morgenthau, NEW YORK COUNTY
Hon. Michael J. Violante, NIAGARA COUNTY
Hon. Scott D. McNamara, ONEIDA COUNTY
William J. Fitzpatrick, ONONDAGA COUNTY
Hon. R. Michael Tantillo, ONTARIO COUNTY
Hon. Francis D. Phillips, II, ORANGE COUNTY
Hon. Joseph V. Cardone, ORLEANS COUNTY
Hon. Donald H. Dodd, O OTSEGO COUNTY
Hon. John M. Muehl, OTSEGO COUNTY
Hon. Adam B. Levy, PUTNAM COUNTY
Hon. Richard A. Brown, QUEENS COUNTY
Hon. Rich J. McNally, Jr., RENSSELAER COUNTY
Hon. Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., RICHMOND COUNTY
Hon. Thomas P. Zugibe, ROCKLAND COUNTY
Hon. Nicole M. Duvé, SAINT LAWRENCE COUNTY
Hon. James A. Murphy III, SARATOGA COUNTY
Hon. Robert M. Carney, SCHENECTADY COUNTY
Hon. James Sacket, SCHOHARIE COUNTY
Hon. Joseph G. Fazzary, SCHUYLER COUNTY
Hon. Richard E. Swinehart, SENECA COUNTY
Hon. John C. Tunney, STEUBEN COUNTY
Hon. Thomas J. Spota, SUFFOLK COUNTY
Hon. Stephen F. Lungen, SULLIVAN COUNTY
Hon. Gerald A. Keene, TIOGA COUNTY
Hon. Gwen Wilkinson, TOMPKINS COUNTY
Hon. Holley Carnright, ULSTER COUNTY
Hon. Kathleen B. Hogan, WARREN COUNTY
Hon. Kevin Kortright, WASHINGTON COUNTY
Hon. Richard M. Healy, WAYNE COUNTY
Hon. Janet DiFiore, WESTCHESTER COUNTY
Hon. Gerald L. Stout, WYOMING COUNTY
Hon. Susan H. Lindenmuth, YATES COUNTY
NYC COUNCIL MEMBERS:
NAME ?
DISTRICT
BOROUGH
43
Brooklyn
16
Bronx
50
Staten Island
33
Brooklyn
28
Queens
2
Manhattan
24
Queens
36
Brooklyn
15
Bronx
37
Brooklyn
20
Queens
19
Queens
8
Manhattan and Bronx
40
Brooklyn
47
Brooklyn
7
Manhattan
17
Bronx
1
Manhattan
35
Brooklyn
29
Queens
45
Brooklyn
21
Queens
51
Staten Island
26
Queens
13
Bronx
9
Manhattan
42
Brooklyn
27
Queens
6
Manhattan
14
Bronx
32
Queens
30
Queens
31
Queens
49
Staten Island
44
Brooklyn
41
Brooklyn
4
Manhattan
25
Queens
22
Queens
3
Manhattan
48
Brooklyn
38
Brooklyn
39
Brooklyn
5
Manhattan
23
Queens
34
Brooklyn
18
Bronx
12
Bronx
11
Bronx
46
Brooklyn
NYS SENATROS:
Addabbo, Joseph P., Jr. Senatorial District 15th,
Akshar, Frederick J. II Senatorial District 52nd,
Amedore, George A., Jr. Senatorial District 46th
Avella, Tony Senatorial District 11th,
Bonacic, John J. Senatorial District 42nd
Boyle, Philip M. Senatorial District 04th
Breslin, Neil D. Senatorial District 44th
Carlucci, David Senatorial District 38th
Comrie, Leroy G., Jr. Senatorial District 14th
Croci, Thomas D. Senatorial District 03rd
DeFrancisco, John A. Senatorial District 50th
Diaz, Ruben, Sr. Senatorial District 32nd
Dilan, Martin Malave Senatorial District 18t
Espaillat, Adriano Senatorial District 31s
Farley, Hugh T. Senatorial District 49th
Felder, Simcha Senatorial District 17th,
Flanagan, John J. Senatorial District 02n
Funke, Rich Senatorial District 55t
Gallivan, Patrick M. Senatorial District 59th,
Gianaris, Michael N. Senatorial District 12th
Golden, Martin J. Senatorial District 22nd
Griffo, Joseph A. Senatorial District 47th
Hamilton, Jesse E. Senatorial District 20th,
Hannon, Kemp Senatorial District 06th
Hassell-Thompson, Ruth Senatorial District 36th
Hoylman, Brad Senatorial District 27th
Klein, Jeffrey D. Senatorial District 34th,
Kennedy, Timothy Senatorial District 63rd,
Krueger, Liz Senatorial District 28th
Lanza, Andrew J. Senatorial District 24th
Larkin, William J., Jr. Senatorial District 39th,
Latimer, George Senatorial District 37th,
LaValle, Kenneth P. Senatorial District 01st
Marcellino, Carl L. Senatorial District 05th
Little, Elizabeth O'C. Senatorial District 45th
Marchione, Kathleen Senatorial District 43rd,
Martins, Jack M. Senatorial District 07th,
Montgomery, Velmanette Senatorial District 25th,
Murphy, Terrence P. Senatorial District 40th
Nozzolio, Michael F. Senatorial District 54th
O'Mara, Thomas F. Senatorial District 58th,
Ortt, Robert G. Senatorial District 62nd
Panepinto, Marc C. Senatorial District 60th
Parker, Kevin S. Senatorial District 21s
Peralta, Jose R. Senatorial District 13th
Perkins, Bill Senatorial District 30th
Persaud, Roxanne J. Senatorial District 19th
Ranzenhofer, Michael H. Senatorial District 61s
Ritchie, Patricia A. Senatorial District 48th,
Rivera, Gustavo Senatorial District 33rd
Robach, Joseph E. Senatorial District 56th
Sanders, James, Jr. Senatorial District 10th
Savino, Diane J. Senatorial District 23rd
Serino, Susan J. Senatorial District 41st,
Serrano, Jose M. Senatorial District 29th,
Seward, James L. Senatorial District 51s
Skelos, Dean G. Senatorial District 09th
Squadron, Daniel Senatorial District 26th
Stavisky, Toby Ann Senatorial District 16th,
Stewart-Cousins, Andrea Senatorial District 35th
Valesky, David J. Senatorial District 53rd
Venditto, Michael Senatorial District 08th
Young, Catharine M. Senatorial District 57th,
NYS ASSEMBLY MEMBERS:
District
Member
Residence
Brooklyn
Brooklyn (Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay)
Jo Anne Simon
Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope)
Latrice Walker
Brooklyn (Canarsie, East Flatbush)
Brooklyn (Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights)
Brooklyn (Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens)
Brooklyn (East Williamsburg, Bushwick)
Vacant
Brooklyn (Flatlands, Canarsie, Mill Basin)
Brooklyn (Greenpoint, Williamsburg)
Brooklyn (Midwood, Sheepshead Bay)
John T. McDonald, III
Peter Lawrence
Vacant
Manhattan
Manhattan (Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen)
Manhattan (East Village, Murray Hill)
Manhattan (Midtown East, Upper East Side)
Manhattan (Morningside Heights, Upper West Side)
Rebecca Seawright
Manhattan (Roosevelt Island, Upper East Side)
Manhattan (SoHo, Greenwich Village)
Alicia Hyndman
Queens
Queens (Far Rockaway)
Carrie Woerner
Southampton, East Hampton
Staten Island (West Brighton)
The Bronx (Baychester, City Island)
The Bronx (Bedford Park, Fordham)
Latoya Joyner
The Bronx (Highbridge, Morris Heights)
The Bronx (Hunts Point, Mott Haven)
The Bronx (Morris Heights, University Heights)
The Bronx (Morrisania, Soundview)
Michael Blake
The Bronx (Morrisania, Tremont)
The Bronx (Olinville, Pelham Parkway)
The Bronx (Parkchester, West Farms)
The Bronx (Riverdale, Woodlawn)
The Bronx (Wakefield, Williamsbridge)
Wheatley Heights[10]
NY CONGRESSTIONAL MEMBERS:
- Yvette Clarke(D - 9th congressional district)
- Chris Collins(R - 27th congressional district)
- Joseph Crowley(D - 14th congressional district)
- Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.(R - 11th congressional district)
- Eliot Engel(D - 16th congressional district)
- Chris Gibson(R - 19th congressional district)
- Richard L. Hanna(R - 22nd congressional district)
- Brian Higgins(D - 26th congressional district)
- Steve Israel(D - 3rd congressional district)
- Hakeem Jeffries(D - 8th congressional district)
- John Katko(R - 24th congressional district)
- Peter T. King(R - 2nd congressional district)
- Nita Lowey(D - 17th congressional district)
- Carolyn Maloney(D - 12th congressional district)
- Sean Patrick Maloney(D - 18th congressional district)
- Gregory Meeks(D - 5th congressional district)
- Grace Meng(D - 6th congressional district)
- Jerrold Nadler(D - 10th congressional district)
- Charles Rangel(D - 13th congressional district)
- Tom Reed(R - 23rd congressional district)
- Kathleen Rice(D - 4th congressional district)
- José E. Serrano(D - 15th congressional district)
- Louise Slaughter(D - 25th congressional district)
- Elise Stefanik(R - 21st congressional district)
- Paul D. Tonko(D - 20th congressional district)
- Nydia Velázquez(D - 7th congressional district)
- Lee Zeldin(R - 1st congressional district)
NYS SENATOR:
nYS ATTORNEY GENERAL”
eric schneiderman
Southern district of NY US attorney’s office
Preet bharara
eastern district of ny us attorney office
western district of ny us attorney office
nys gaming commission
NYS racing and wagering members:
j.gary pretlow-chair
andrew garbarion
phillip goldfeder
aileen gunther
peter lawrence
margaret markey
michael miller
amgelo santabarbara
michaele solages
james tedisco
carrie woener
racing gaming and wagering
john bonacic-chair
joseph addabbo jr
phil boyle
david carlucci
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well according to my calculations there were 85 2nd prizes at the start of the game and u have 1 of them
good luck on trying to find out the truth sam - but unopened books should only be destroyed in the event that the last top prize has been claimed -
I was personally contacted by an upstate assemblyman who personally wrote me that he was going to look into this matter and see if this was really happening
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You've gone through a lot of trouble to bring the light of day to this fraudulent activity happening in New York.
Good Luck to you !!!
GO TO THE MEDIA OUTLETS, if you have to !!! [Online Media Outlets as well]
POST about this ONLINE somewhere other than Lottery Post, and let the issue GO VIRAL !!!
Start an Online Petition for Explanation & Accountability regarding this issue of possible Fraud.
It is possible that the NY Lottery Commission and GTECH does know where the final winning $1 million ticket is located, [i.e., which numbered ticket deck , issued to which retailer, and where] [You cannot always believe that "they don't know" just b/c they say so] [random distribution
], and they have started destroying other rolls of scratch offs to wind the game down as quickly as possible, sooner than originally planned, for some reason. Maybe there is something "defective" about this particular game. [Game # 596 - $1 Million A Year for Life] [Maybe they are having a problem similar to Illinois ]However, it is still unfair to NY consumers. They are not being allowed to purchase and win any smaller prizes remaining in the destroyed rolls of tickets, and they are still spending a lot of money trying to win the remaining $1 million ticket, thinking that it is still in circulation. If they knew it was not in circulation anymore, they presumably wouldn't continue to waste money on that particular scratch off game. [Game # 596 - $1 Million A Year For Life]
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UPDATE: Today I got my second call from a NYS Senator who said he was very disturbed by my email and if it is in fact true they were going to investigate this matter. But I am also going to contact a lawyer and possibly sue to stop the removals.
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Thank you that is a very good idea and I am going to take this to social media to see if I can make a difference.
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This, an other shady practices, is an issue endemic to all state lotteries. While I salute your effort rgse90, I doubt much will come of it. Lotteries, like all other multi-billion-dollar businesses, are very good at wriggling their way out of corruption.
Allow me a moment to don my pretend Lottery-Rep cap and provide a fictional, if likely, response:
Dear [Senator],
The primary initiative of the [insert your favorite state] Lottery is Integrity. While we understand the issue you've raised in light of the letter received from [concerned citizen], you may rest assured that the explanation is far simpler than any nefarious conspiracy aimed at cheating players. In fact, the practice described is specifically directed at protecting the players of our great state.
As the technology available to the common consumer becomes both cheaper and more sophisticated, the Lottery must be ever-increasingly vigilant in its pursuit and investigation of potential fraud. You can see from our yearly governance reports (insert some link to lengthy reports virtually hidden somewhere), the overwhelming majority of lottery fraud cases are brought against retailers or their staff. These are the people with the most access to instant games and therefore the ones that most often attempt to compromise them. Several cases over the last [x-number] of years have proven that a book coming back to us sealed in plastic does not mean it's unadulterated. (Insert list of fraud examples.) To ensure the integrity of our games we have had to become proactive in our investigation of all manners of fraud, and indeed must recall, open and inspect some of the otherwise seemingly unopened books in the wild. The compromise inherent to the necessary process of inspection requires that the inspected tickets be destroyed (insert citation to some regulation). These investigations have reduced fraud in our state by [x-percent] over the last [some-number-of-years].
[Blah, blah, blah, blah...]
The issue which really needs to be addressed here isn't the destruction of the tickets, but rather the apparent failure to remove any destroyed prizes from the prize pool, just as if they'd been claimed. Lotteries will probably cite cost here as being prohibitive on account of how many tickets they (or their contractors) destroy, but I'd say too <snip> bad. Spend the money to expose the barcodes and scan the tickets before destroying them; the little school children the lotteries tax us for can get a few hundred grand less from their few hundred million every year.
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i would be so happy to get involved in this. I run a youtube channel and have about 550 subs, a lot from new york, that are disgusted with NY states lottery. I scratch about $100 worth of tickets daily and put them on the channel. the odds on these tickets are really taking a nose dive lately. as far as the $30 tickets I had 5 stores by me that had books one day and the next day each one of them told me the same story that they were taking away. I cant find one store in queens that has them. Until 2 days ago. I found a gas station that had there $30 tickets pulled but the agent did not realize there is a vending machine tucked in the back of the store which has about 19 tickets left that I'm going to be purchasing. i will be scratching them on the channel. if you need my help the help of my subs, I'm sure they are all willing to help. They are all huge scratchers and we are fed up with this new york crap. You can check out my channel. It uses the same username as here and post a comment letting me know you are from here. i arreciate your effort to uncover this scandal
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f your not going to buy them let me know I will buy them thank you
sam
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yeah im going to purchase the rest and scratch them live in a video everynight. I already scratched 2 and one had a $40 winner and the other was a bust
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I have over 100 to scratch probably for x-mas anyway
