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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

Rural Kansas couple wins $9.85 million Hot Lotto jackpotNews Story
When Stephen Harrod checked his Hot Lotto ticket in the early morning on July 2nd to find out the prize amount, the convenience store clerk couldn't believe her eyes. She scanned (the ticket) and she went 'oh my,' Harrod said as he recounted the story later that afternoon at the Kansas Lottery headquarters, 128 N. Kansas Ave. She got her glasses and wrote it down on a piece of paper and gave it to me. I said, 'no way.' The computer showed Harrod had hit the $9.85 million Hot Lotto jackpo
Jul 10, 2015, 8:01 am - Lottery News

Michigan lottery winners could remain anonymous under House billNews Story
You've heard the touching stories: a waitress, retiree or unemployed worker hits the jackpot and wins the state lottery. Under a bill approved by the Michigan House Regulatory Reform committee on a 13-2 vote Wednesday, those stories would probably disappear because all lottery winners would be able to remain anonymous. The bill would prohibit the state lottery office from disclosing information about an individual who won any lottery prize unless that winner authorizes the release of infor
May 14, 2015, 8:12 am - Lottery News

CT lawmakers again seek lottery winnings from 1995 ticketNews Story
By the time state Rep. Ernest Hewett met him, the kid was in his 30s. But to Hewett, the six-term Democrat from New London, Clarence Jackson's still the kid. And Hewett says he'll keep fighting for him until Jackson gets the $5.8 million Connecticut lottery jackpot that's eluded him for more than 18 years. 'Give the kid the money' that's what they used to say around the Capitol, Hewett recalled last week. That's what we ought to do. Jackson's oft-told story, revived again this month d
Feb 23, 2015, 11:01 am - Lottery News

Three tickets to split massive $564 million Powerball jackpotNews Story
Final jackpot total of $564.1 million is fifth-largest ever in USA By Todd Northrop Three Powerball lottery tickets sold in North Carolina, Puerto Rico, and Texas matched all the winning numbers Wednesday night to share a $564.1 million jackpot. The winning numbers in the Wed., Feb. 11, 2015, drawing were 11, 13, 25, 39, and 54, with Powerball number 19. The Power Play number was 3. The $564.1 million Powerball jackpot, which is the fifth-largest of any lottery game in history, start
Feb 12, 2015, 1:11 am - Lottery News

$450 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot nears recordNews Story
5th-largest US jackpot ever; 5th-largest cash value By Todd Northrop Mega jackpots are back! 2014 came and went as a year devoid of frenzy-inducing lottery jackpots, but 2015 is shaping up to be jackpot-chasers' dream. Between now and Wednesday evening, anyone can walk into a store and buy a lottery ticket for a couple of bucks that has the potential of winning around a half-billion dollars. An estimated $450 million, to put a finer point on it but even that amount is likely to be
Feb 8, 2015, 7:11 am - Lottery News