Posted on 12/21/2015 7:17:58 AM PST by jalisco555
DES MOINES, Iowa — The allegations read like a movie plot: a lottery industry insider installs undetectable software giving him advance knowledge of winning numbers, then enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. And they secretly enrich themselves for years — until a misstep exposes them.
Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, has been convicted of fraud for fixing one jackpot in Des Moines, but prosecutors say his high-tech scheme extended far beyond Iowa. He’s accused of tampering with lottery drawings in four states over six years, and investigators are expanding their inquiry nationwide.
Investigators have asked states to review jackpots produced by the number-generators Tipton had access to, and whose winning numbers were specifically requested by the ticket buyer. They hope to talk with anyone aware of such payouts being collected by someone other than the person who ends up with the money, said Rob Sand, a state prosecutor in Des Moines who is leading the probe.
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Come to find out the security on those machines was zilch !
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Gee, almost like it was planned that way....
I wonder if it had anything to do with Whitey Bulger’s win in Massachusetts.
“You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”
If thy rigged the lottery, why not votes?
I know old news.
Yep! And the “Man of Steel” is a hero for our leftists.
The govt is pissed that someone managed to out steal them in the lottery.
They put up a disclaimer at the end claiming they didn't know nothing about the provenance of the machine.
Nah. The legitimate winner was probably in Bulger's sphere of influence, and was made to see the wisdom of "selling" the ticket for some untraceable cash. IOW, money-laundering.
Bulger wins by getting a source of legal income, and the winner wins a bonus by not having long lost friends and relatives suddenly turning up on his doorstep when his good fortune would otherwise have been made public.
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