Inquiry in Iowa Lottery mystery touches Canada

Comment #20

jamella724 — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 04:14:29 GMT

The story is quite complicated, if the winner wants to be annonymous it might be really hard since the lottery state needs to verify the ticket. I wonder why the representative could not give the name of the real winner who purchase the ticket in exchange of claiming the prize. It seems like he's hiding something.

Comment #19

noise-gate — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 03:37:24 GMT

This is the part that gets me...

ln December 2011, a 77-year-old New York lawyer Crawford Shawwaited until minutes before a one-year deadline to turn in a winning Hot Lotto ticket. Shaw signed the ticket on behalf of a newly created trust, claiming he was its sole trustee. The ticket was confirmed as valid.

Shaw later said that he was representing an attorney for a person who purchased the ticket and wished to remain anonymous, and that he did not know the winner's name. He said the t... [ More ]

Comment #18

Artist77 — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:00:00 GMT

Yea, that or someone was cheated out of the ticket and hopefully not with death. They are proceeding so slowly and so cautiously, it makes me think there was a death.

Comment #17

rdgrnr — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 21:32:45 GMT

Lottery retailer who stole it, lottery employee, lottery official, someone at the printing company, that's what I'm thinking.

Someone who couldn't turn it in themselves without getting busted.

I hope that's all it is and there isn't another grave somewhere.

Comment #16

RJOh — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:31:51 GMT

Since the problem seems to have been someone turning in the ticket other than the person who brought it, how would getting a friend or relative to turn it in have solved the problem

Comment #15

sully16 — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:07:45 GMT

makes sense

Comment #14

RJOh — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:39:00 GMT

Apparently the lawyer and his clients felt telling them everything they wanted to know would not result in them getting their money and only expose information they wanted kept private.

Comment #13

kapla — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 18:36:50 GMT

I am with you on that...

Comment #12

Goteki54 — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:52:53 GMT

For $!4 million dollars, I'll tell them everything they want to know and I'll even make up some stuff if they like!!

Let's compare privacy vs receiving $14 million dollars, hmmmm, it sounds like a no brainer

Comment #11

kapla — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:25:48 GMT

GREAT points! I hope it is something like what you listed, if its not and they just want to know WHO the owner is and that person just didn't want anyone to know - well that is an expensive cost to pay for privacy. Give up on the money just so no one knows - hummm.

Comment #10

Artist77 — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:10:22 GMT

Inside job? Meaning a lottery retailer was involved or a lottery employee

Comment #9

LottoGuyBC — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:45:26 GMT

Interesting

Comment #8

mypiemaster — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:19:39 GMT

If it quacks like a duck.................? Really strange.

Comment #7

CLETU$ — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:37:40 GMT

Comment #6

atoz — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 16:07:46 GMT

I am like you ridge....inside job......

Even if it was someone wanted by the law I am sure they could find a friend , relative or a patsie somewhere to turn it in.

Comment #5

rdgrnr — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 04:41:36 GMT

Inside job.

Ubetcha.

Comment #4

sully16 — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:28:59 GMT

Yep, this is a strange one.

Comment #3

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:57:34 GMT

Wow this is crazy drama if they have the videitchy dont they release it

Comment #2

Jon D — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:06:33 GMT

I for one am curious to know what really happened. This isn't just a run of the mil claim, it was highly suspicious. Here's a few possibilities:

1. Ticket was taken from original purchaser, who now sleeps with the fishes.

2. Ticket is a duplicate, printed by a lottery employee with the same codes as the winning ticket, thus the need to wait until the final hours to make sure the *real* ticket did not appear.

3. Winner has a large multi-million civil judgement against them and wants to h... [ More ]

Comment #1

RJOh — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:06:22 GMT

I've followed this case for a while and I still don't know what scheme they are talking about. If buying and claiming winning tickets in certain ways are considered illegal schemes then they should spell them out in the rules so players don't waste time and money buying tickets they can't collect on.

Inquiry in Iowa Lottery mystery touches Canada

Lottery Post — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:48:42 GMT

Investigators seeking to unravel an attempted multimillion-dollar Iowa Lottery jackpot scheme have been in contact with Canadian authorities and are looking into people who may have been involved, an agent said Thursday.

Special Agent in Charge Patrick Townsend of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation confirmed his agency sought assistance from Canadian law enforcement early in the 18-month investigation into a withdrawn claim for a $14.3 million Hot Lotto jackpot.

(See $14.3 million... [ More ]