Iowa Lottery security chief to grill NY lawyer over Hot Lotto ticket

Comment #36

Iesha Kelly — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:17:34 GMT

Exactly.

Comment #35

rdgrnr — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:29:31 GMT

That'll work

Comment #34

dk1421 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:11:04 GMT

Darlin', I think they are FILLED with salt already. How about using a meat mallet to soften them up before marinating them in brown sugar

Comment #33

mcginnin56 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:51:35 GMT

What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the coldest deepest ocean???

A good beginning.

Comment #32

rdgrnr — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:50:35 GMT

I have to admit I like the idea of lawyers being grilled.

Over low heat preferably.

Lotta salt.

Comment #31

savagegoose — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:13:35 GMT

Here in Australia its not really anonymous . the ticket has NFP[] (not for publication) on the back where you fill out name and address details. i didnt think it was anonymity was what people wanted it was just not to be famous. as long as the public dont know who you are most woudnt Care if the lotto officials knew or not?

well i always thought that

I also think the lotto people want ot see if the person on the video buying the ticket is still alive

Comment #30

ChazzMatt — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:25 GMT

The several days is because confirmation is needed. Verification of what the lawyer says. You going to take a lawyer at his word without proof?

And time has proved you wrong. It's already been several days and the lawyer still has not answered the questions. So there. They security chief was right in his prediction this case would at least take several days.

Until the lawyer can show the ticket holder got it legitimately (instead of by theft using hacking of the state lottery computer sys... [ More ]

Comment #29

ChazzMatt — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:48:56 GMT

I couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I do remember it was duplicate tickets printed off lottery computer system and printers. They were wating until the time had almost expired to claim the money, just in case the REAL winner showed up with the REAL ticket. But because of that case, now anyone who shows up very late undergoes extra scrutiny.

For a multi-state prize like Mega Millions or Powerball, pulling off something like that would be harder. They probably have more safeguards in... [ More ]

Comment #28

Cletu$2 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:37:09 GMT

Thank you,time*treat.

Comment #27

time*treat — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:59:13 GMT

The reference is to the two newest women SCOTUS judges.

Comment #26

peppy007 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:55 GMT

unfortunately I live in NYC which is one such city. Our neighbor Yonkers is another.

Comment #25

Stack47 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:37:06 GMT

The Iowa Lottery's security chief says it will likely take several...days of face-to-face meetings with a New York attorney and others to get all the questions answered about a winning Hot Lotto ticket.

It doesn't take several days just to ask if the owner of the trust purchased the ticket, why they waited until the last minute to have the ticket validated, and why was it necessary to use an out of state lawyer to sign for the trust. Logical answers would be the player that purchased the tic... [ More ]

Comment #24

Cletu$2 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:32:04 GMT

What the heck is The Wise Latina The Kagan? And what the heck do they (whatever they are) have to do with the lottery

Comment #23

patwins — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:47:02 GMT

Something is definitely up - the lottery officials are too willing to risk media attention.

Comment #22

jarasan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:06:23 GMT

Iowa is basically in trouble they can't even count votes, and are missing 8 precincts from the caucus. Something is wrong in Iowa!! Meth?????????? It will meth you up everytime. Get with it Iowa

Comment #21

time*treat — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:25:18 GMT

I once lived in a place that had income taxes at state, county, and city levels.

I'm surprised they didn't build walls to keep people in.

Comment #20

dpoly1 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:54:14 GMT

I got the Powerball tonite, as long as I don't drop the ticket in my coffee like I did my Mega Millions ticket. Good thing the PA Lottery makes coffee resistant tickets. No need for an investigation either!

And only Federal taxes here in PA

Comment #19

RJOh — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:35:09 GMT

Also don't forget many cities are now taxing lottery winnings as regular income so they would want to know if they are due any taxes and who's paying it.

Comment #18

haymaker — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:28:01 GMT

corzine is a crook, and may have been able to hide in the background forever if he did't have poliical ambitions,

his greed told him jersey people are suckers,we are'nt , it blew up in his face,now he's got more problems.

but i doubt he will ever spend a day in jail.

he is too rich.

Comment #17

time*treat — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:38:28 GMT

Maybe they're stalling.

Hopefully, they weren't letting Corzine's outfit hold the money before the prize was claimed.

Comment #16

dpoly1 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:34:44 GMT

Someone like this guy needs to investigate Their President Congress. As well as The Wise Latina The Kagan

Comment #15

jarasan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:19:42 GMT

That was DC and it was contractors with Pick 3 pick 4 stuff, DC is RNG, they got popped immediately. Hot Lotto is RNG, could be similar situation but it would have to be a setup grift internal theft, maybe someone got BOGLEMADAS bogus ticket that printed out at the wrong terminal?????

And he wants it back before he is found out.

BOGLEMADABEEZELBUB

Comment #14

HaveABall — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:05:13 GMT

Good example, ChazzMatt, of presidence as a reason for prudence.

Comment #13

ChazzMatt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:04:35 GMT

Yes. Questions do need to be asked.

There was a scandal two or three years ago where some state's lottery tech employees with top-level system access were able to print duplicate winning tickets and have friends claim the money. The tickets they printed were identical to the winning tickets. These guys were sys admins at the state lottery headquarters, and had access to terminals and printers. They manipulated the system so the tickets they printed were identical to the winning tickets printe... [ More ]

Comment #12

gocart1 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:32:37 GMT

Pay the guy his money and lets move onto the next drawing...

Comment #11

PERDUE — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:54:00 GMT

Neubauer said. ...Definitely the public is fascinated by this story and wants to know more.

I don't...

I could care less.

Authenticate the ticket, pay the money, and move on.

Just meeting with Mr. Shaw is not going to be enough for me to give a recommendation...to pay this ticket, Bogle says.

Bogle better get a c4 sniffing dog and have his stuff scanned for flammable dog poop. lol

At this rate aint no telling what disgruntled winners and losers are likely to mail hi... [ More ]

Comment #10

dallascowboyfan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:55:55 GMT

This has all the makings of a LMN (Lifetime Movie

Comment #9

Arrowhead — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:02:59 GMT

Not discounting fact Iowa Lotto is playing this in very strange fashion, but something tells me there's a good reason and interesting story is coming up. If not, there's going to be a real sh*tstorm for those state lotto officials.

Comment #8

dr65 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:01:04 GMT

The wrong party is under investigation...it should be Iowa State Lottery. Who wants to play in a state where

they don't want to pay you or try and have someone come up with a reason why you shouldn't be paid what

you won? Bad business Iowa.

Now I wish the ticket would have been claimed with 5 minutes to go ...someone was licking their chops.

They might have just been drooling all over the place with less than 1/2 hour to go.

I say: Pay up

Comment #7

jarasan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:35:26 GMT

Where are the frinking occupiers when you em???????????????????????????????

OCCUPY the IOWA LOTTERY INQUISITOR BOGLEMADA

Comment #6

dpoly1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:28:26 GMT

Pay the money! Another government hack with too much time on his hands. Sounds like Bogel has a guilty conscious!

Government IS the problem

Comment #5

MADDOG10 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:24:05 GMT

I agree he needs to drop it down a couple of notches. What he really should be doing is to keep watching whats going on around him, instead of counting what could be going through his hands..

Comment #4

time*treat — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:22:13 GMT

As long as you're not winning, it's all good.

Comment #3

sully16 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:13:34 GMT

I agree, he needs to step down a notch , Do lottery winners really need to be GRILLED

Comment #2

TheRightPrice — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:57:36 GMT

In my opinion, the folks in Iowa are bored. No one else laid claim to this ticket and if a lottery employee quits his or her job within the next few days then you've got your culprit.

Bottom line is no one else claimed this ticket, hate to see this money go back to the state

Comment #1

rdgrnr — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:46:03 GMT

I can't help but feel that this Security Chief has a little bit of an ego problem.

I'm waiting for him to make the rounds on the talk show circuit and announce he's writing a book about the case .

Iowa Lottery security chief to grill NY lawyer over Hot Lotto ticket

Lottery Post — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:37:40 GMT

Meetings to take 'several days'

Includes audio report

The Iowa Lottery's security chief says it will likely take several...days of face-to-face meetings with a New York attorney and others to get all the questions answered about a winning Hot Lotto ticket.

The ticket was sent via FedEx to a Des Moines law firm and turned in at Iowa Lottery headquarters just hours before the deadline.

Steve Bogle, the vice president of security at the Iowa Lottery, says he needs to determine the c... [ More ]