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Ohio Woman Admits Lying in Lotto Case
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Posted on 01/08/2004 10:02:49 AM PST by AppyPappy
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CLEVELAND (AP) - A woman said through tears Thursday that she lied about losing the winning ticket for a $162 million lottery prize awarded to another woman.
Elecia Battle, 40, of Cleveland, is dropping her lawsuit to block payment of the Mega Millions jackpot to the certified winner, said her lawyer Sheldon Starke.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: gambling; lazy; lottery
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To: AppyPappy; dighton; aculeus; general_re; L,TOWM; Constitution Day; hellinahandcart
"Battle said she wanted to use the money to help her family and recently laid-off Cleveland police officers."Oh, yeah ... riiiggghhhttt!
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:09:51 AM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Der Elite Møøsënspåånkængrüppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK))
To: AppyPappy
Lottery = a tax on the poor.Lottery = a tax on those who can't 'do' math.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:10:15 AM PST
by
asformeandformyhouse
(Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.)
To: AppyPappy
"Battle said she wanted to use the money to help her family and recently laid-off Cleveland police officers."
Ha, police officers! What a transparent attempt to buy some good will in the slammer.
To: AppyPappy
Getting prepared for the *I wanted to win defense*.....or if that fails *I wanted to help the laid-off police officers defense*.....so far I only see a charge of filing a false police report.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:11:26 AM PST
by
mystery-ak
(Mike...we are entering the home stretch)
To: Naspino
LOL!!!
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:11:27 AM PST
by
Bikers4Bush
(Bush and Co. are quickly convincing me that the Constitution Party is our only hope.)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
Lottery = a tax on the stupid. Im also not stupid. $5 per week on lottery is hardly $40+ a week on cigarettes that could kill me. You tell me which is stupid (apologies to smokers).
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:11:46 AM PST
by
smith288
(Secret member of the VRWC elite forces)
To: BlueLancer
"Battle said she wanted to use the money to help her family and recently laid-off Cleveland police officers." Maybe she figured that if she had the money, she would be able to get in enough trouble that Cleveland would have to rehire the cops.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:12:05 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Plate Teutonics: The theory that Germans are moving the continents.)
To: smith288
Both. You are paying a voluntary tax.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:12:33 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: AppyPappy
Lottery = a tax on the poorLottery = a tax on the poor mathematically ignorant/stupid.
I know many people who aren't poor who play it.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:12:40 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(Go Fast, Turn Left!)
To: smith288
$5 as week for the lottery versus how much you have won over that time?
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:13:09 AM PST
by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
To: AppyPappy
Battle said she wanted to use the money to help her family and recently laid-off Cleveland police officers.
Yeah, uh-huh. It was for those poor laid-off Police Officers.
She's not really a crackhead, she just had a rough night volunteering at the Police Benevolent Union...
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:14:05 AM PST
by
Kenton
("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
I should have said mathematically stupid/ignorant. You need not be stupid to play the lottery. Apologies.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:14:14 AM PST
by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
To: Billthedrill
She had no public integrity to compromise. I mean, this is not a case of a person who has been honorable in all things, but was corrupted when this stakes were that high. This was low-life dirtbag.
Remember the lady who got news coverage for being trampled by the crowds at Wal-Mart. She appears to be a professional victim and were it not for some snoopy reported, Wal-Mart might well have paid out some small amount after she filed the inevitable nuisance lawsuit.
The cynical plaintiffs' lawyers who facilitate these people (and sometimes even put them up to it) are the most culpable.
It's not like any individual juror gets the full picture, and the judges and defense lawyers can't tell the jury just how scummy the plaintiffs are, so it is the plaintiffs' lawyers who are at fault for this extortion.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:14:19 AM PST
by
Montfort
To: AppyPappy
Both. You are paying a voluntary tax. Yep, a whole $5, for the off hand chance that I may score big. Im guessing you have a zero % chance of winning any lottery. So I have an infinately better chance at winning something than you do. :P
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:14:44 AM PST
by
smith288
(Secret member of the VRWC elite forces)
To: AppyPappy
what can we expect?
They use to throw gangsters in jail for running number games. Now the questions are:
Was it really Ok back then and we simply misread what should be legal or not?, or, are gangsters running our government?
Appears to be a bastard child of a corrupt parent.
blessings, bobo
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:14:50 AM PST
by
bobo1
To: smith288
I should have said mathematically stupid/ignorant. You need not be stupid to play the lottery. Apologies.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:15:04 AM PST
by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
To: KarlInOhio
Maybe she figured that if she had the money, she would be able to get in enough trouble that Cleveland would have to rehire the cops.LOL. Good one Karl.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:15:11 AM PST
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: smith288
I's not poor neither, but the lottery is still a tax on the stoopid. And I have a mug collection, to.
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:15:14 AM PST
by
fml
( You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -RUSH)
To: AppyPappy
Wonder what will happen to her lawyer?
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posted on
01/08/2004 10:15:20 AM PST
by
Hacksaw
(theocratic Confederate flag waving loyalty oath supporter)
To: BlueLancer
"Battle said she wanted to use the money to help her family and recently laid-off Cleveland police officers.""Don't arrest me. I was going to give you guys some of it; no, really, I was! Because I care!"
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