Posted on 12/30/2020 3:55:36 PM PST by Son House
Investigators say Tipton installed code that let the computers work as should on all but three days of the year — May 27, Nov. 22 and Dec. 29 — when they would produce predictable numbers if the drawings occurred on Wednesdays or Saturdays after 8 p.m.
Tipton admitted in court that he provided cohorts with the winning numbers for jackpots in Colorado in 2005, Wisconsin in December of 2007, Kansas in December of 2010 and Oklahoma in 2011.
The group, which included Tipton's brother Tommy Tipton and a friend, Texas businessman Robert Rhodes, also attempted to collect a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket in December 2010 in Iowa, but Iowa lottery officials refused to pay it because the men tried to cash it anonymously. Iowa rules require the buyer and owner of the ticket to be made public.
That led to an investigation into a potential lottery fraud. Once Tipton was identified as a possible suspect, investigators began checking for connections to other winning games and zeroed in on winnings connected to Tipton, his brother and Rhodes in the other states.
Tipton's plea deal resolves his legal situation in all of the affected states. He could get up to 25 years in prison when he's sentenced. A date hasn't been set and he remains free on bond.
Immediately after Tipton's hearing, his brother pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit theft by deception.
"My brother did provide me with numbers to play in Colorado and Oklahoma lotteries and he told me that it was illegal for him to play the lotteries but gave me the numbers to play," Tommy Tipton said.
Tipton, a 53-year-old former Texas magistrate judge and a law enforcement officer, said he's now unemployed and must sell part of his farm to pay the $800,000 in restitution that the judge ordered.
"That is financially effectively going to more than wipe him out," said his attorney, Mark Weinhardt. "Mr. Eddie Tipton does not have the resources to satisfy restitution in any meaningful degree. Mr. Tommy Tipton does and this will effectively take all of his assets."
Rob Sand, the assistant state attorney general who prosecuted the case, said after the hearing that it appears much of the stolen money is gone.
"As is the case in many financial crimes, the individuals who obtain the money usually spend it, thereafter leaving only margins of it to be recovered later. I think were in better shape in this case than we are in many cases, though," he said.
Sand said the scheme resulted in payouts of $2.2 million and he has demanded repayment through restitution from the Tipton brothers and Rhodes.
Rhodes, of Sugar Land, Texas, bought winning numbers for drawings in Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma between 2005 and 2011. He earlier pleaded guilty to being party to a computer crime and awaits sentencing.
that’s a shame that they’re broke so now they’ll have to tap the many millions in their cayman islands and bitcoin accounts to survive.
LIKED RIGGED ELECTIONS..... NOTHING WILL COME OF IT.
If the lottery $$ can be rigged, anything can be rigged and was.
And the lottery results are all audited and certified just like our elections.
Should have done a brief excerpt;
Tipton’s plea deal resolves his legal situation in all of the affected states. He
could get up to 25 years in prison when he’s sentenced. A date hasn’t been set and he
remains free on bond.
Immediately after Tipton’s hearing, his brother pleaded guilty to charges of
conspiracy to commit theft by deception.
“My brother did provide me with numbers to play in Colorado and Oklahoma lotteries
and he told me that it was illegal for him to play the lotteries but gave me the
numbers to play,” Tommy Tipton said.
I’m shocked.
If I’m not mistaken, in this case Tipton was the head security official from some tri state lottery organization back east. It was so easy for him to rig it all. He got too greedy, involved too many and that’s how he got caught.
How Local TV Star Nick Perry Rigged the Lottery
https://www.lottoexposed.com/how-local-tv-star-nick-perry-rigged-the-lottery/
Looking for someone to help him execute, Perry shared the concept with business
partners – two brothers called Jack and Peter Maragos. Since both of them were in on
the idea, Perry also approached Joseph Bock – a Pittsburg lettering expert.
What Bock was tasked to do was pretty simple, yet ingenious. His involvement in the
plan involved the creation of weighed ping-pong balls that would act as replicas of the
official balls used to draw the lucky digits in The Daily Number. You probably already
have some idea where this is heading and how the PA Lottery Daily Numbers got rigged.
What’s the lesson here, kids? If you ever plan to cheat the lottery, don’t get a ton of
people involved. Some individuals have a massive problem keeping their mouth shut, and
the more extensive the scheme is, the faster it’s going to unravel.
There were some big scandals with the Pennsylvania lottery and others about 40 years ago.
Companies that invented the games had to come up with a foolproof way of identifying winning tickets. Big winners were produced with a radioactive signature that could not be faked. Obviously, these were preprinted and distributed to be sold.
Lloyd’s of London was the only entity willing to insure such lotteries as they were designed to produce 50% profit for the state, 10% for expenses and 40% for winners.
A man who helped write the computer code behind several U.S. lotteries, including some of its biggest, pleaded guilty Thursday to masterminding a scheme through which he rigged the winning numbers for jackpots in several states and collected millions of dollars. Eddie Tipton, who worked for the Multi-State Lottery Association from 2003 until 2015 and was its computer information security director for his last two years there, appeared in a Des Moines courtroom, where he pleaded guilty to one count of ongoing criminal conduct and publicly acknowledged his lead role in the scheme for the first time.
"I wrote software that included code that allowed me to understand or technically predict winning numbers, and I gave those numbers to other individuals who then won the lottery and shared the winnings with me," Tipton said when asked by Judge Brad McCall to explain what he did.
You got a good memory, thinking I should remember this better too.
Just trying to be brief, figured others might remember or not, and could go to the full article.
I am old enough to remember when they used lottery ball machines and had hot women parade each newly pulled ball on television. No computer needed.
“I am old enough to remember when they used lottery ball machines and had hot women parade each newly pulled ball on television. No computer needed.”
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But you don’t remember this?:
But, but there was no widespread fraud so how can they be guilty? Why are any courts even hearing these cases?
Who would have ever thought that a lottery or an election could/would be rigged! Why, just the thought! /s
Ex-Dominion employee picking up some easy money?
“Who would have ever thought that a lottery or an election could/would be rigged!”
PDJT warned us about it for years but no one here took him seriously. We were told that Trump would win in such a massive landslide that there’d be no way the Democrats could manufacture enough votes to overcome it. The false prophets told u that God spoke to them directly and said that He was going to ensure that Trump would win on election day.
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