A Texas businessman has pleaded guilty to fraud and admitted to helping lottery computer technician Eddie Tipton cash jackpots in a multi-state number-fixing scheme that netted $2 million.Insider Buzz, Legal, Iowa, Hot Lotto, Scandal, Technology, Computerized Drawings, Fraud, Crime, Multi-State Game, Court
A Texas businessman has pleaded guilty to fraud and admitted to helping lottery computer technician Eddie Tipton cash jackpots in a multi-state number-fixing scheme that netted $2 million.Insider Buzz, Legal, Iowa, Hot Lotto, Scandal, Technology, Computerized Drawings, Fraud, Crime, Multi-State Game, Court
A New York man and his 49-year-old mother have pleaded guilty in the slaying of a man who was killed over a winning scratch-off lottery ticket.New York, Scratch Games, Death, Law Enforcement, Crime, Court
A New York man and his 49-year-old mother have pleaded guilty in the slaying of a man who was killed over a winning scratch-off lottery ticket.New York, Scratch Games, Death, Law Enforcement, Crime, Court
A New York man and his 49-year-old mother have pleaded guilty in the slaying of a man who was killed over a winning scratch-off lottery ticket.New York, Scratch Games, Death, Law Enforcement, Crime, Court
A New York man and his 49-year-old mother have pleaded guilty in the slaying of a man who was killed over a winning scratch-off lottery ticket.New York, Scratch Games, Death, Law Enforcement, Crime, Court
A prominent lottery official who was stripped of power after a subordinate allegedly carried out a prolonged jackpot-rigging scheme received a $284,000 severance payment, a recent tax filing shows.Insider Buzz, Legal, Hot Lotto, Scandal, Technology, Computerized Drawings, Fraud, Resignation, Crime, Multi-State Game
A prominent lottery official who was stripped of power after a subordinate allegedly carried out a prolonged jackpot-rigging scheme received a $284,000 severance payment, a recent tax filing shows.Insider Buzz, Legal, Hot Lotto, Scandal, Technology, Computerized Drawings, Fraud, Resignation, Crime, Multi-State Game
Trials for brothers charged with ongoing criminal conduct in Iowa for allegedly fixing lottery games to collect jackpots have been delayed.Insider Buzz, Legal, Iowa, Hot Lotto, Scandal, Technology, Computerized Drawings, Crime, Trial, Multi-State Game, Court
This year there is a little additional optimism around the idea of starting a Mississippi Lottery, as the state’s Republican governor said he would be open to discussions of a lottery.Starting a Lottery, Mississippi, Government
Authorities say a Florida convenience store clerk was cashing in by cheating, while selling customers worthless lottery tickets.Florida, Legal, Scratch Games, Retailer, Theft, Law Enforcement, Crime, Video
Authorities say a Florida convenience store clerk was cashing in by cheating, while selling customers worthless lottery tickets.Florida, Legal, Scratch Games, Retailer, Theft, Law Enforcement, Crime, Video
A Massachusetts teenager just won the ultimate gift that will last a lifetime.Winner Stories, Massachusetts, Scratch Games
A pizza twirler from Greece by way of Long Island, New York, got the birthday wish of his dreams — a $1 million winning lottery ticket.Winner Stories, New York, Scratch Games
A pizza twirler from Greece by way of Long Island, New York, got the birthday wish of his dreams — a $1 million winning lottery ticket.Winner Stories, New York, Scratch Games
A state audit recognized that the Georgia Lottery continues to ramp up its contributions to education every year, but that it could do a better job at maximizing those contributions through efficiencies and other measures.Georgia, Financials, Education, Audit, Government
A Peoria, Illinois, man is accused of kidnapping two men in order to extort $300,000 in lottery winnings from their family.Legal, Winner Stories, Illinois, Law Enforcement, Crime
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has toyed with the concept of establishing a city lottery to help ease the city’s financial woes and, while the idea has not progressed, it could get backing from at least one key Democrat in Springfield.Insider Buzz, Illinois, Starting a Lottery, Government
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has toyed with the concept of establishing a city lottery to help ease the city’s financial woes and, while the idea has not progressed, it could get backing from at least one key Democrat in Springfield.Insider Buzz, Illinois, Starting a Lottery, Government
New Jersey’s chances of getting the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its attempt to allow legal sports gambling hinge on how a bedrock constitutional principle is applied.New Jersey, Legal, Gambling, Sports Betting, Court