Colorado Lottery players are now demanding an Iowa court judge to grant them reparation in connection with the 2010 lottery-fixing scandal.

The Denver Post reported that lawyers lodged a consumer fraud case against Multi-State Lottery Association (MLSA) before the Iowa district court in Des Moines, in behalf of hundreds of thousands of lottery players who lost in what they described as rigged jackpot game.

It would be recalled that the association’s former security director, Eddie Tipton, was convicted of fraud for tampering the number generator that picked the digits for the $16.5 million drawing at the association’s suburban Des Moines headquarters.

With Tipton’s conviction, the petitioners argued that MLSA should be held liable for failing to prevent lottery games from being rigged. As a result of the rigged lottery draw, the players lost money and should be reimbursed plus interest.