Winners suing Illinois Lottery try to rope in other states

Comment #19

bowmangwenda — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 03:56:34 GMT

never happened before feels like you are grounded for staying out late on a school night . when they do pay how about donating money to fight crime and poverty in chicago.

Comment #18

zephbe — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:02:44 GMT

It is an Illinois issue. Other states are paying their winners.

Comment #17

Teddi — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:14:42 GMT

None of this makes any sense. Obviously the laws were written so that the only people who are made to go without payment are high $ value winners.

If the IL lottery is paying some tickets ( $600) and disbursing funds to MUSL, and releasing money to cover salaries, then there really isn't an absolute law prohibiting ALL disbursements.

Everyone else in this scenario is getting the money owed to them except IL winners. Talk about fishy.

Comment #16

DELotteryPlyr — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 00:18:09 GMT

I have been wondering WHY they are not doing that. Except we ***ALL*** know why - MONEY! They will not do anything until it hits their bottom line.

Comment #15

Erzulieredeyes — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:53:00 GMT

Illinois is probably using all the lotto $$ as their own to try to solve all those unusual murders that they allowed to get out of hand.

Comment #14

Erzulieredeyes — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:50:18 GMT

LOL @ OBJECTION

Comment #13

Erzulieredeyes — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:48:26 GMT

The Powerball/Mega Millions should kick out the State of Illinois and ban them from participating in the game until they can afford to pay up. Don't go dragging other States into your crooked State because your State is too crooked and too cheap to pay you.

Comment #12

mypiemaster — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 21:35:05 GMT

Why are these lawmakers still getting paid?. They are not doing their jobs for sure. Next thing you know, the kitchen gets too hot and they adopt the city of Detroit's play book, then what are winners gonna do. State of Illinois politics is in the toilet and I am not going to be surprised if they decide to screw people over, just like the city of Detroit. Shame on you guys!!!.

Comment #11

KY Floyd — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:57:41 GMT

If you read that again you might notice that it's about the money being sent to Illinois from other states. The question was about prize pool money that Illinois has to send to MUSL to fund the jackpot.

I'm just guessing, but I expect that money never becomes part of the state's general funds, and is paid directly from a lottery account that is not affected by the lack of a budget.

Comment #10

RedStang — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:28:15 GMT

ILL is in trouble. This story is from 2013. Can't imagine what their dealing with now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/illinois-unpaid-bills_n_3529836.html

Comment #9

lucky6025 — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:50:22 GMT

OK so maybe if everyone that is owed money took the republican governor to small claims court and sued for maximum amount allowed then go after the democrats next this would make thing different. when money comes out of their pockets will hurry things up.I think small claims court allows 10,000.00 figure how many are owed money and that adds up fast.

Comment #8

DELotteryPlyr — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:35:02 GMT

Huh, wonder if the state stops seeing the money coming in they might 'get it' and resolve this.

Comment #7

joshuacloak — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 08:16:16 GMT

Wait a Sec...

They want all of our states to pay for a lawyer to defend ourselves for what the Illinois govt is doing to their own citizens

Comment #6

RJOh — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 05:37:32 GMT

That reminds of the 1968 Democratic convention. I was a Vietnam veteran who had been out of the army for a year and used the vacation I had earned on my new job to travel to Chicago to see the Yippies demonstrating.

Comment #5

Stack47 — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 05:14:09 GMT

but they probably thought the budget would be passed by now and paying lottery winners is not a priority.

If a judge can order the state to pay lottery winners, why can't they order the state to pass a budget

Comment #4

Stack47 — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 05:01:35 GMT

It's in the last paragraph and the lawyer is asking the court to put the money due to MUSL into a interest bearing fund.

Thomas Zimmerman, an attorney representing unpaid Illinois Lottery winners owed at least $288.4 million, said he will seek a court order this week temporarily stopping the multi-state lottery providers from sending Illinois its share of winnings. Instead, that money would be deposited with the court clerk so it can earn interest and be paid out to winners, he added.

Comment #3

noise-gate — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:57:54 GMT

Just as there is separation between Church State - There should be separation between the State Lottery the State Budget.

Comment #2

djpowerball1234 — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:41:39 GMT

Just a question ?, is the state of Illinois paying power ball and Mega millions its due when the games are being played or are they holding those monies also.

Comment #1

noise-gate — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:39:22 GMT

let's hope it does not come to this....

Winners suing Illinois Lottery try to rope in other states

Lottery Post — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:14:18 GMT

Multi-state lottery groups pushed back on Monday against a move by lottery winners in Illinois to drag dozens of states into a lawsuit against the Illinois Lottery's suspension of payments.

Illinois has halted payments on winnings of $600 or more due to the state's ongoing budget impasse.

A class action originally filed in September in U.S. District Court in Chicago seeking to force the Illinois Lottery to pay winners was amended last week to add as defendants lottery agencies in 43 states... [ More ]