Posted on 12/23/2015 7:36:35 PM PST by iowamark
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 of his duties in October by the group's board, which includes directors of lotteries in 37 states and U.S. territories. The move came days after prosecutors said their investigation of jackpot-fixing by the association's former security director, Eddie Tipton, had expanded nationwide.
The association, which operates multi-state games such as Hot Lotto and Wild Card in addition to Powerball, has kept the leadership change quiet. It didn't announce its decision and its website lists Strutt as executive director. Idaho Lottery director Jeff Anderson, the board's chairman, said Monday he couldn't comment on a "personnel matter."
Strutt, 63, retains support among some board members and hopes to return to his position when the Tipton case concludes, said Dawn Nettles, a Texas-based lottery watchdog who said she spoke with Strutt about his leave in October.
"The truth is, the lotteries voted Chuck out. They're holding him accountable for the actions of that security guy," Nettles said. "But they don't want anybody to know."
Strutt was its first employee when six states formed the association to offer the nation's first multi-state game, Lotto America. The group launched Powerball in 1992, and the game has since generated some of the world's largest jackpots and billions of dollars in revenue for 44 states that now participate. Strutt also helped establish the association's other games, which collectively surpass $5 billion in annual sales...
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Des Moines, right?
Yes, the Multi-State Lottery Association is based in Des Moines.
Expect a class action lawsuit because the lotteries were fixed and not true games of chance.
Do we get refunds for non-winning tickets?
Golly, what would explain winning 7 lottery payouts?!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Man-Who-Won-the-Lottery-7-Times-Unveils-His-Secrets-310880.shtml
Or 2: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/295998
Or 2...this year! https://www.lotterypost.com/news/293499
Or 2 big lotto wins...in 3 months! https://www.lotterypost.com/news/292936
Or 3 big lotto wins using...the same numbers...this year: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/290480
2 lotto wins...in 2 hours: https://www.lotterypost.com/news/289644
“But your honor, the money was just sitting there.”
https://www.lotterypost.com/news/285808
Wisconsin man repeats same feat of winning multiple lottery jackpots
MADISON, Wisc. Last week, the Wisconsin Lottery announced that three SuperCash! winning tickets had been sold in Dane County.
Amazingly, all three winning lottery tickets were purchased by the same person from three different stores.
But the real jaw-dropping part? He’s done this before.
Verlyn Adamson of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, is the lucky winner of all three top prizes from the Monday, January 26 SuperCash! daily lotto game. His winning tickets matched all six numbers of 3, 10, 15, 23, 26, and 34.
Adamson purchased his lucky tickets at three different locations:
Kwik Trip 7583 West Mineral Point Road in Verona
Kwik Trip 525 Springdale Street in Mount Horeb
Cenex Convenience Store 1225 Hwy 18/151 in Mount Horeb
After taxes, Adamson received a payment of $707,175.39.
This is the second time that Adamson has won multiple top prizes of $350,000 playing SuperCash! The last time this happened was in August 2008 when he won on four different tickets, pocketing $995,000 after taxes.
So who were the “lucky” recipients / beneficiaries of the fixing? How did this work? I would think it would pretty hard to fix a Powerball jackpots in the hundreds of millions of dollars range.
https://www.lotterypost.com/news/284499
An unidentified 39-year-old truck driver won a large Maryland Lottery jackpot last week for the second time.
The lucky Parkville, Maryland, resident came to Lottery headquarters Saturday to claim his $2.85 million Multi-Match prize and took the cash option, which totaled more than $2.2 million, the Lottery said in a release.
“I was here in 2005 when I won a $250,000 second-tier Mega Millions prize,” he told Lottery officials. “It’s great to be back.”
Thanks for that list...you answered my question in Post #11.
Quietly removed... but will keep his pension, right? And since it is just a quasi-governmental job the pension may only be about $460,000 a year, right? More than a normal executive level government pension of $163,000 per year, but far too little for a man in charge of that much cash. It’s why he had to cheat in the first place. He could’ve worked on Wall Street but made the sacrifice because he believes in public service. (/s)
https://www.lotterypost.com/news/278722
an Indianapolis man defied the odds twice, winning his second $1 million prize in three months.
Robert Hamilton claimed his $1 million from the Hoosier Lottery Commission July 22, according to a news release. He purchased the ticket in the $120 Million Cash Spectacular Scratch-off from a Speedway on South East Street.
After taxes, Hamilton collected $792,846.04, according to the website.
Hamilton won another $1 million prize in the same game three months earlier, on April 28. He told the commission he stopped by a Casey’s in Jasonville on his way to a conference and purchased the winning ticket there.
I have a hard time figuring out how ping pong balls blown through an air tube can be possibly fixed?
I vaguely remember somebody winning the NJ(?) Lottery a bunch of times at a Million dollars a pop. This was probably more than 20 years ago when a million was the top prize.
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