Iowa Lottery director: 50-50 that Hot Lotto mystery will be solved

Comment #19

Scientistman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:20:37 GMT

Maybe I read the story wrong but maybe the guy who bought the ticket died and the attorney who was representing him was trying to cash it in for him and keep the money but when they started asking the attorney questions he didnt want to answer them because if they found out the guy died and he was trying to cash in on the guys ticket he feared going to prison and said just forget it it aint worth losing my freedom over.

Comment #18

Scientistman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:20:21 GMT

Lets consider all the wonderful beautiful blessings that one could do for others with 7.5 million dollars less taxes.

Lets consider sick or ill loved ones who would be in the best hospitals money could buy with 7.5 millions less taxes

Lets consider all the wonderful beautiful blessings that one could do with this kind of money.

Now lets consider giving it up.

One reason I see if its not a criminal.

We have all heard that MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

but it

Comment #17

Scientistman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:26:33 GMT

You know, I can understand what you are saying, and how you are feeling. I know how you feel to play and play and play and not win. It is good to stop playing every so often. Once I completely decided I was done with the lottery. I told myself I am through. I was depressed I had gotten all 6 numbers correct but changed my mind at the last second and decided to go with other numbers and the ones I originally had all showed in the lotto every one of them. Yes its heartbreaking but I learned a big

Comment #16

Cletu$2 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:52:53 GMT

Why do you frequent a lottery site?This site is for lottery players,not for those that are against the lotterys.Go rain on someone elses parade.

Comment #15

mcginnin56 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:49:26 GMT

Guess your not a lottery player. So would your suggestion be that we all boycott the state lotteries, and just play our numbers with the illegal criminal

syndicates on the street like we did 50+ years ago?

At least the syndicates wouldn't be bothering you with those pesky pretest drawings, they would just be the rigged ones .

Comment #14

haymaker — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:42:34 GMT

The lotteries are not going anywhere, but you can abolish them personally,

just quit playing.

Comment #13

bombay — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:34:25 GMT

I am in FAVOR of abolishing the Lottery and all those of participating states. I will be forth coming soon with my findings from an ongoing studying of the lottery drawings. Also do you guys find it ironic that their are only 1000 combinations for the pick three but yet triple digits and quadruple numbers are rarely drawn. Don't you think if you have two games per day for seven days a week, fourteen drawings a week, for three hundred and sixty five days a year you would at least see those type o... [ More ]

Comment #12

grwurston — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:23:52 GMT

The ticket may have been purchased by someone who doesn't want to be found for whatever reason. Someone in witness protection for example. By waiting till the last minute to cash the ticket, they probably thought there would no hoop-la or publicity. As it turned out the waiting drew a lot of attention, so they said The heck with it. It's not worth the risk of being found .

Comment #11

dognabit — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:38:12 GMT

Comment #10

RJOh — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:34:19 GMT

Such a situation could be win win for a drug cartel looking to laundry some money and an illegal looking to avoid a hassle.

Comment #9

Stack47 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:04:16 GMT

bearing the name of a New York attorney who was acting on behalf of a Belize-based investment trust.

It's really not that uncommon for someone to sell their winning ticket and a Belize-based investment was the final owner, but the strange part is why buy a ticket you might not be able to cash. Now since they withdrew their claim, there is no reason for the lottery to investigate. It really doesn't matter if Iowa Lottery security chief believes there was foul play because he doesn't represent... [ More ]

Comment #8

RJOh — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:56:54 GMT

It clear if there was some kind of lottery scheme going on it was a no brainer to walk away from $7.5M rather than discuss it which contribute to the theory it's big and the people running it got smarter.

If it ever came to light that anyone with a million or two dollars to gamble had a pretty good chance of winning any lottery, it would change the structures of MM and PB lottery schemes.

Comment #7

JoeBigLotto — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:13:22 GMT

l don't think this has anything to do with a lotto system what so ever am very good in profiling people and numbers.This is my only logical theory an old lady or man came into a store to check there ticket the cashier sees its a winner and decides to pay the real winner $5 .Now he has another problem how to cash it and he talks to a trusted relative in new york who decides to help cash it for a fee .so they get some money hungry lawyers to help cover there trail of deceptions .So they wait till... [ More ]

Comment #6

haymaker — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:39:39 GMT

That makes more sense then any other theory I've heard.

Comment #5

rdgrnr — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:26:59 GMT

More likely won by someone who has won before with a system, a scheme or a scam that they don't want to put at risk until they hit the real mother lode with it.

They could afford to let this one go because they know they can do it again for the really big score after they get all their ducks in a row.

They may have done it already.

Comment #4

Cletu$2 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:40:22 GMT

The bottom line is we kept the money, he said.

That just about says it alll

Comment #3

mcginnin56 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:37:47 GMT

This must somehow tie in with your tax re-distrubtion theories.

Comment #2

THRIFTY — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:34:10 GMT

They usually have loose lips, Rich said. Maybe they showed it to someone (who) took the ticket and said, 'Good-bye,' and disposed of that person.

Still another theory centers around a ticket purchased illegally through an international syndicate with the parties walking away from the jackpot rather than answer the Lottery's questions.

These two seems more realistic to me. How about the person being a wealthy new Yorker who is evading taxes? I feel that they will find out eventually.... [ More ]

Comment #1

mcginnin56 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:05:33 GMT

Terry Rich should be played by Mawell Smart.

Another theory could be that someone from within the Iowa lottery commission was covering up for someone else. Had the pointed questions not

been asked, someone would have claimed this jackpot for sure.

Iowa Lottery director: 50-50 that Hot Lotto mystery will be solved

Lottery Post — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:46:48 GMT

Terry Rich would love to know the story behind the winner of a lottery jackpot walking away from a ticket valued at $7.5 million after taxes.

It's the only time we can find anywhere in world lottery history that somebody won a major jackpot and gave it up, Rich said Aug. 8.

Although there have been cases of people not claiming a jackpot because they lost their winning ticket, No one has ever claimed it, had the hoopla, and then said, 'OK, we don't want it. Bye,' Rich said.

However, Ric... [ More ]