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.
If the lottery $$ can be rigged, anything can be rigged and was.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Yep. Fraud. No refunds for the millions who played.
Class action lawsuit in the making right there.
And I don’t think these are the only ones who’ve ever rigged (or been caught rigging) lottery drawings run by states.
Buckhead mentioned a couple of times. : )
https://thedonald.win/p/11RO7PP8NP/full-video—jovan-hutton-pulitze/c/
Nobody cross references? IRS does.
l8r
Where was he on the evening of November 3?