Lawmakers to mediate spat over Iowa Lottery security

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jbt8 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:46:55 GMT

Maybe its time for the Iowa Lottery to create their own law enforcement division like the California Lottery. They nailed quite a few retailers with their undercover compliance checks. Check out the lottery stings on Dateline NBC with Chris Hansen.

Comment #2

rdgrnr — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:51:04 GMT

Note to Ombudsman Angrick:

You may be looking for a new job soon. I would recommend you stop rocking the boat and making waves. Don't you know that lottery clerks are just extraordinarily lucky people? It's probably from handling all those lottery tickets - the luck just rubs off on them. It's just preposterous to think that they would steal winning tickets from unwitting customers. Pfffftt!

And the Lottery people have already investigated themselves and found no problems. What more do you... [ More ]

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Raven62 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:40:34 GMT

Maybe it's time for Illinois and Iowa to untie the knot and go their separate ways.

Lawmakers to mediate spat over Iowa Lottery security

Lottery Post — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:33:39 GMT

Relations have become so strained between feuding directors of two state agencies that a couple of Iowa lawmakers have agreed to step in as mediators.

The standoff pits state ombudsman William Angrick against Iowa Lottery chief executive Terry Rich.

Angrick's staff, which investigates citizen complaints, has spent more than two years investigating the Iowa Lottery and has concluded that lottery players could be at risk of being cheated.

Rich says he has responded fully to each of the om... [ More ]