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Austin store that sold $83.5M winning lottery ticket under investigation by Dan Patrick
Fox 4 Dallas ^ | 02/18/2025 | Katie Pratt

Posted on 02/19/2025 12:51:48 PM PST by DFG

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is conducting his own investigation into the Texas Lottery.

This comes after a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket was bought at a retail store in North Austin.

What we know: The lucky winner matched all six numbers in Monday's Lotto Texas drawing; 19, 21, 25, 45, 47, 52.

The winning ticket was sold at the Winners Corner TX LLC store on Rockwood Lane.

The winner picked their own numbers and chose the cash option.

RELATED: Lotto Texas ticket sold in Austin wins $83.5 million prize

The estimated $83.5 million jackpot was the fifth-largest in the history of Lotto Texas.

The prize has been growing since June 2024.

This is not the first time someone walked away a winner after buying a ticket at the Winners Corner TX LLC store on Rockwood Lane.

The store has been on top for the number of winning tickets sold, including in December 2024 when someone bought a winning lottery ticket of $2 million.

In March 2021, a Texas Two-Step ticket sold there also won. It was worth more than $2 million as well.

The business is considered a lottery courier, which allows Texans to buy tickets online, then a courier will send a representative to physically purchase the ticket in person at one of the lottery retailers.

Although many question the ethics and legality of how these lotto companies work, the most recent win was concerning to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

On Tuesday, Patrick went to investigate Winner's Corner in person.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox4news.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: austin; fraud; lottery; texas
Office of the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick

"Recently, there have been many questions raised about the integrity of the Texas Lottery. Last night, an $83 million winning ticket was sold in Austin. Turns out, the retail establishment that sold the winning ticket in the front of the store was owned by the courier service that purchased the ticket behind the wall in the back of the store. I decided to go out and investigate for myself."

https://x.com/LtGovTX/status/1892030685126459646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1892030685126459646%7Ctwgr%5Ed4c6dd991e8da8d98a3dfcc68b8e6d8473f72648%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox7austin.com%2Fnews%2Faustin-store-sold-83-5m-winning-lottery-ticket-under-investigation-dan-patrick

1 posted on 02/19/2025 12:51:48 PM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

IOW: They bought the ticket after the numbers were announced


2 posted on 02/19/2025 12:55:50 PM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: All

Things that make you go hmmmmm.


3 posted on 02/19/2025 12:57:11 PM PST by BipolarBob (I'm at -15* and I feel like kicking Punxsutawney Phils buttocks.)
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To: Fai Mao

Well, it’s easier that way and it’s too hard to make a time machine and go back in time (I know, I tried).


4 posted on 02/19/2025 12:58:26 PM PST by BipolarBob (I'm at -15* and I feel like kicking Punxsutawney Phils buttocks.)
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To: DFG

Someone mastered AI? very strange indeed.


5 posted on 02/19/2025 12:58:47 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: DFG


"The probability of one four-reel machine is a million and a half to one; the probability of three machines in a row; it's in the billions! It cannot happen, would not happen, you f______ momo! What's the matter with you? Didn't you see you were being set up on the second win?"
6 posted on 02/19/2025 1:02:42 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BipolarBob

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tcSWQeqaBzw


7 posted on 02/19/2025 1:06:36 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: DFG

Money laundering.


8 posted on 02/19/2025 1:10:27 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: DFG

https://texasscorecard.com/year-in-review/a-year-of-controversy-and-scrutiny-for-the-texas-lottery/


9 posted on 02/19/2025 1:12:56 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: BipolarBob

That’s because I made a time machine and went back in time and sabotaged your time machine.


10 posted on 02/19/2025 1:15:48 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DFG

Texas lotto should be suspended pending investigation.


11 posted on 02/19/2025 1:38:23 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: DFG

They bought all known combinations and profited more than what they had spent. Money laundering 101.


12 posted on 02/19/2025 2:05:17 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: jjotto
Re: "Money Laundering"

Interesting theory, jotto.

I completely missed that.

However, what scheme is used to get a ticket machine to print the winning numbers BEFORE the actual drawing?

Really interesting crime - if there is a crime.

13 posted on 02/19/2025 2:12:24 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: zeestephen

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/former-texas-lottery-director-fraud-manipulate-game-outcomes-misappropriate-funds/269-35ee9f0b-967a-40f0-b588-a1edcd126ec9

https://www.acamstoday.org/lottery-and-money-laundering-a-match-made-in-heaven/


14 posted on 02/19/2025 2:25:58 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: DFG

Some 20 years ago, in Indiana scratch ticket lottery, they had a million dollars ticket printed. Some lottery worker noted the box of the tickets and where is was send.
It turned to be a county store in Orange County, the bunnies of IN.
He send his nephew there to buy all the tickets.
And, indeed, they got the winning ticket!
Lottery actually paid the money, but then, the seller got suspicious, when he realized that somebody, whom he never met, showed up, bought all tickets and won! (they give the seller some share of the wins!).
Investigation was launched, and eventually both the uncle and the nephew went to jail!
I never buy scratch up tickets since!


15 posted on 02/19/2025 4:17:49 PM PST by AZJeep
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To: AZJeep

The lottery can be rigged.

Hot Lotto fraud scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Lotto_fraud_scandal
Eddie Tipton and his brother Tommy Boyd Tipton were subsequently accused of rigging other lottery drawings, dating back as far as 2005

Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/22/news/iowa-lottery-sentencing/index.html
Tipton has agreed to pay about $2.2 million in restitution, including $1.1 million to the Colorado lottery, $644,000 to the Oklahoma lottery, $391,000 to the Wisconsin lottery and $30,000 to the Kansas lottery.


16 posted on 02/20/2025 1:04:41 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

Yes,
That Indiana case was found only, because Orange Co IN is so backward, nobody goes there and everybody there knows everybody else.
So the store owner got suspicious when some stranger showed up and bought all the scratch up tickets! And when he realized that there was a winning ticket there, he alerted authorities!

I think, there is a lot more fraud in lotteries, which goes unreported.

I also heard that mafia/cartels like to buy the winning tickets and offer premium. So they can legitimize their earnings?!


17 posted on 02/20/2025 2:56:43 PM PST by AZJeep
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