Prosecution rests in Hot Lotto trial

Comment #5

noise-gate — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 01:23:20 GMT

My post was based on this piece i read earlier in the Daily Beast ....

...Tipton insists he doesn t know Johnston, Shaw, or Sonfield from Adam. There s no communication between me and them, Tipton said, adding that there s no way to connect him with these people other than circumstantially. My name is nowhere, Tipton said.

Ask Tipton about the evidence and he comes back with his own version of conspiracy and innuendo. He never bought the ticket. Some mystery man did.

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Comment #4

RJOh — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:09:56 GMT

I think I read an earlier article where Tipton said he had to be beyond genius to pull this off,we shall see.The Last thing l want to see is a gullible jury.

There wasn't a genius in this case since no one got the cash. If Tipton did try to pull this off and was willing to engage so many peoples to avoid detection he would have been stupid to buy the ticket himself.

Comment #3

noise-gate — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:49:30 GMT

So far, l see no smoking gun as well. Folks who were on the stand were saying the person who purchased the ticket walks like Tipton, talks like Tipton - but the prosecution did not have a warm body saying That when l looked into the whites of this person's eyes at the counter, it was 100% Tipton in the flesh .

I think I read an earlier article where Tipton said he had to be beyond genius to pull this off,we shall see.The Last thing l want to see is a gullible jury.

Comment #2

Stack47 — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:21:31 GMT

She also said she received no hints that Tipton was linked to the trust and would not have assisted if she had.

Two of the three prosecution witnesses testified the man on the tape purchasing the ticket wasn't Tipton and then Johnson McClean who represented Hexham Investments testified she had no hints Tipton was linked to the trust.

Without proving Tipton bought the ticket and with little or no evidence he rigged the drawing, it's starting to look like they had no case.

Comment #1

noise-gate — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:50:16 GMT

Rests?- The prosecution must figure they have a water tight case against Tipton.

Prosecution rests in Hot Lotto trial

Lottery Post — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:35:20 GMT

The defense began calling witnesses Thursday morning in the trial against a former lottery vendor employee accused of rigging a Hot Lotto drawing to win a $14.3 million ticket.

Eddie Tipton, 52, is being tried on two counts of fraud. Tipton has been accused of purchasing the winning ticket at a Des Moines QuikTrip on Dec. 23, 2010. In his former position as the information security director for the Multi-State Lottery Association, Tipton was barred by Iowa law from buying a lottery ticket.