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Two CT Lottery employees suspended without pay for their roles in botched raffle drawingNews Story
Two middle-level Connecticut Lottery Corp. employees have been suspended without pay in the continuing fallout from a million-dollar mistake in the Jan. 1 drawing that selected winners in the New Year's Super Draw game. Disciplined for neglect of duty were drawing supervisor Valerie Guglielmo and investigator Robert Balicki. Both served on a five-member drawing team that mistakenly excluded 100,000 of 214,601 eligible tickets that had been sold to players. The error resulted in a do-over draw
Mar 23, 2018, 8:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Two CT Lottery employees on paid leave during probe of botched drawingNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. said Wednesday that it has placed two employees on paid administrative leave while it investigates a human error that shut 100,000 eligible tickets out of Monday's drawing in the New Year's $1,000,000 Super Draw game, forcing a second drawing yet to be scheduled. (See Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error', Lottery Post, Jan. 2, 2018.) Investigations are being conducted by both the CT Lottery and the [state] Departm
Jan 4, 2018, 3:22 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Multi-state lottery games start 2018 with a combined $783 million mega jackpotNews Story
Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots are both are in top 25 by Todd Northrop 2018 started with near-record cold sweeping across much of the USA, but the nation's two biggest multi-state games couldn't be hotter. Powerball and Mega Millions have been rising steadily for the past few weeks, with both games' jackpots now at the point where even casual lottery players start to put ticket-buying on their list of to-dos. After nobody won Mega Millions on Friday and Powerball on Saturday, t
Jan 1, 2018, 9:31 pm - Todd - Lottery News

US Senate panel demands info in lottery scandalNews Story
A U.S. Senate oversight panel demanded Wednesday to know how state lotteries are increasing their security measures after an insider allegedly rigged jackpots for years to enrich himself and associates. Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, said the allegations of fraud in lottery games offered for sale around the country raise serious concerns. Yet he said it's not clear what the Multi-State Lottery Association, an Iowa-based nonprofit that admin
Jun 22, 2016, 7:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Investigators find Tipton's software code to rig computerized lottery drawingsNews Story
Last remaining defense shattered as investigators find and decipher jackpot rigging code A lottery vendor for years manipulated drawings to enrich himself and associates by installing software code that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year, Iowa investigators alleged Wednesday. Authorities called the newly obtained forensic evidence a breakthrough in the investigation of alleged jackpot-fixing scheme by Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-Stat
Apr 7, 2016, 8:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Hot Lotto case moves to jury for deliberationsNews Story
Attorneys gave their closing arguments Friday in the fraud case against a former lottery vendor employee accused of manipulating a Hot Lotto drawing to win a $14.3 million ticket. Eddie Tipton, 52, is being tried on two counts of fraud. He has been accused of buying the winning Hot Lotto ticket at a Des Moines QuikTrip on Dec. 23, 2010. Tipton was defined by Iowa law as a prohibited player in his former position as the information security director for the Multi-State Lottery Association, or
Jul 17, 2015, 8:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Wyoming Lottery targets June for first ticket salesNews Story
But could be as late as October The leader of the Wyoming Lottery Corporation says he is confident lottery tickets will go on sale in the state in June. Jon Clontz, chief executive officer of the lottery corporation, told members of the Cheyenne Greater Chamber of Commerce on Friday that the timeline for selling tickets starts as early as June, but could be as late as October. While Clontz predicted a June launch, he said the timeline depends on how much time is spent on contract negoti
Jan 15, 2014, 7:50 am - Todd - Lottery News

unfair practices and odds
Hi ! I have been reading all the posts on the CA scratchers and have been doing some reading. I think that the practices of most retailers hinders customers from winning. Almost every place I have gone to, has a clerk or owner that watches the sales and wins and losses on the tickets. Whether its a 7-11 or a reg liquor store, there are plenty of tickets that the retailer scratched themselves , most likely finding the larger winning tickets. I was thrilled about the second chance draws a
Nov 3, 2013, 4:36 pm - luckyalexsandy - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Powerball lottery jackpot makes Iowa historyNews Story
$241 million Powerball ticket is bought at Cedar Rapids Hy-Vee Winners might be Quaker Oats workers Will the winner or winners of the biggest lottery jackpot in Iowa history please step forward? Cedar Rapids residents were busy speculating Thursday on the identities of possible lucky ticket holders after the Iowa Lottery announced that a single ticket sold at a Hy-Vee grocery store there was the sole winner of a $241 million jackpot in Wednesday night's multi-state Powerball drawing. No
Jun 15, 2012, 8:08 am - Todd - Lottery News

Teen told to clean room, finds winning lottery ticketNews Story
By Todd Northrop A 19-year-old supermarket worker has let the world's teenagers down by proving that moms are usually right. Not that Ryan Kitching should resent his mom's nagging too much her constant badgering to tidy up his room led to a 50,000 windfall. For two weeks Ryan of Penicuik, Midlothian resisted his mother Susan's requests to clear away the clutter in his bedroom. I had just got back from the gym and she wasn't even home at the time but I knew I'd be in trouble if I did
Mar 5, 2012, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News