MUSL security worker who rigged drawing gets 10 years

Comment #27

Stack47 — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:19:28 GMT

It was proved beyond a reasonable doubt at his trial that Tipton rigged the computerized drawing using a rootkit he installed on the drawing computer.

If it's a fact at least one drawing was rigged, why aren't the people running the game being investigated

Comment #26

Murgatroyd — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 01:16:43 GMT

If the lottery can't make the locations of winning scratchers unpredictable, that's their problem. There's nothing illegal or unethical about looking for patterns in the system and finding them.

Comment #25

rochanda12 — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 01:35:14 GMT

I understand why this man would be sentenced so harshly for rigging the lottery .I wonder why Joan Ginther was never questioned about her tactics winning the lottery.Joan Ginther is a former Math professor with a Phd on Statistics winning four times on scratch offs to the sums of $5.4 million,$2million,$3million and $10 million.They are speculations that she figured out the pattern of algorithm that determines the place a winning ticket is placed in a batch of scratch off tickets. once the patte... [ More ]

Comment #24

TnTicketlosers — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:35:40 GMT

Tennessee players live to chase a non winning dream.People wake up.

Comment #23

Candy-Lane — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 02:18:12 GMT

I think the punishment fits the crime but, I still feel cheated! I played Hot Lotto with Sizzler, heavily! I never stood a chance! Apparently, no one did!

I invested a lot into that pot! Whatever happened to the Jackpot prize money? I never received a refund, an iou, an apology, or anything.

At any rate, thanks to Todd, I don't play Hot Lotto anymore. I refuse to play computerized lottery games.

Comment #22

malin1257 — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:50:08 GMT

AMEN

Comment #21

TnTicketlosers — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:54:18 GMT

Funny how 2 of our worst ice days in Tennessee they throw tripples each morning knowing we couldnt get out to play.If that dont tell those playing people to stop playing here nothing will.....Oh yea I fgound out that exit 2 in Kentucky has casino games,yea baby....40 minutes from my house....

Comment #20

PlayToWin47 — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 03:11:19 GMT

I've been leery of computer games since the late '90s!!! Even way back then, I was saying that it's a computer. It can be programmed to do whatever the programmer wants it to do. If the programmer wants you to win, you will win; if the programmer wants you to lose, you will lose .

I absolutely hate RNGs, and say the same thing today when it comes to lotteries, casino slot machines, etc. They are computers!!!

I do still play anyway, because if I don't, I have ZERO chance of hitting a big ja... [ More ]

Comment #19

DELotteryPlyr — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:20:28 GMT

ABOUT time!!! Nice to see him get time for what he did

Comment #18

jjtheprince — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:48:02 GMT

Of course ball drawings can be rigged, explain how back to back number pairs show up in over 90% of drawings when it's a phenomena that should only happen about once in every 75 drawings at best.

Comment #17

SilverLion — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:08:26 GMT

Comment #16

savagegoose — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 23:30:54 GMT

i say let him out when he can win a jackpot. let him buy 1 mega and 1 powerball ea draw, and he gets out when he wins. ohhh the irony

Comment #15

grwurston — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 23:19:36 GMT

Weren't computer drawings already rigged several years ago in Tennessee? They got away with it for a good while,

they being the Tennessee lottery. There is no telling how long or how many times, computerized drawings have been

rigged. We would only know about it when someone gets caught AND it's made public, because they are always saying

it can't be rigged due to the security measures blah, blah, blah. And the last thing they want is for it to become known

that they can... [ More ]

Comment #14

SilverLion — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:45:24 GMT

Its nice to be elliot ness and crusade, but Did he really get 10 years yet? Its a great judgment, but Brady did not even get four games yet.

Spartan.

You seem and sound like a 300 minus one. You migt need mour MuScLe to prove your side.

Comment #13

spartan1707 — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:28:35 GMT

Total BS....They never proved how he did it with all the checks they say they do before every drawing! Second If a system check is conducted before every drawing and must be done by a group of people who work there and there is no computer according to MSL. So again how did he do it when they never produced the video of him doing it,program which he used and why no one saw or reported a tampering to the system which is not hook up to an outside computer? APPEAL

Comment #12

Todd — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:19:18 GMT

Thank you.

Comment #11

TnTicketlosers — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:49:31 GMT

What sucks about all this is...most of them do it too and get by with it.

Comment #10

Raven62 — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:15:41 GMT

I like this line: unfortunately proved that computerized drawings can be rigged. And that a better thief might have gotten away with it. Maybe they already have

Comment #9

RedStang — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:59:14 GMT

They should of shown this on Court TV and CNN to warn all the other idiots that might try to rip players off.

Comment #8

Scratch$ — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:50:58 GMT

Ball drawings can be and have been rigged also, but IMHO RNG games present a bigger problem as far as fraud and should be banned. All draw games should have televised ball drawings.

Comment #7

Scratch$ — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:43:32 GMT

Tipton was only denied a new jury trial in Polk County, Iowa. He can still appeal his sentence to the Iowa Court of Appeals or the Iowa Supreme Court. He'll remain free on bond until his appeals are exhausted.

Comment #6

pickone4me — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:02:38 GMT

I told my haters that the lottery can be rigged, and they didn't like to have that thought entering their minds. Because of RNG can be rigged, it makes me wonder if the ball drawings can be messed with.

Comment #5

Get paid — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:30:15 GMT

Wow don,t mess with the lottery. LOL.

Comment #4

cbr$ — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:25:17 GMT

No. surprise here on the guilty verdict. Since they , get a warning in advance that computerized drawing can be rigged, no surprise here. The surprise is in the judgement. Mr Tipton rights to appeal , was denied. He make the perfect fall guy , Just like in the movies. So, It won't be a surprise , later down the line when history repeat it self.

Comment #3

psykomo — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:16:23 GMT

Congrat's Tipton UR trial proved RNG could B rigged 2B WON. WHy not write a book (auto-bio) about the

RNG Man. Be sure 2 explain how the chip guarnteed UR sucessful RNG programming of future numbers.

Comment #2

hearsetrax — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:49:26 GMT

gonna make all kinds of new friends jejeje

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:37:55 GMT

Sucks to be you dude!!!.

MUSL security worker who rigged drawing gets 10 years

Lottery Post — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:34:19 GMT

Judges denies request for new trial

By Todd Northrop

Eddie Tipton, a former security official with the Multi-State Lottery Association, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars Wednesday morning.

Tipton was sentenced to five years for each of the two counts of fraud, to run consecutively. He did not make a statement during the sentencing hearing.

In July, a Polk County jury found him guilty of two counts of fraud. (See Former lottery security employee guilty of rigging $14.3M drawing, L... [ More ]