Former security chief grilled by CT Lottery lawyer at hearing

Comment #5

iWins — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:17:51 GMT

Its a terrible thing that a person has to take the fall so it takes the heat off of the lottery corporation. That the lottery does not care who was responsible, the man they put in charge is the one they're blaming which makes sense in a way. If they have 100 hires, it will be difficult for a corporation to keep an eye on all 100. That is what they hire a manager or similar for. They put the pressure on the manager and the manager puts the pressure on the rest of the employees. I think that is h... [ More ]

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Todd — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:32:59 GMT

Raffle drawings are conducted via computerized drawings.

Comment #3

NearNewBrit — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:28:07 GMT

Shea questioned the fact that the checklist included steps that seemed trivial by comparison, such as saying that the drawing team should gather in the lottery's Newington headquarters parking lot, should flip a coin to determine which of two RNGs it would use, and even should push the button to set RNG into operation.

The lottery is more properly known as Connecticut Lottery Corporation (CLC), and is headquartered in the town of Rocky Hill. Before that, the HQ was in New Britain, and before... [ More ]

Comment #2

noise-gate — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 02:45:20 GMT

At least he won't be paying anything out of his own pocket. I doubt his heat is anything compared to Mueller going after Cohen.

Comment #1

TheMeatman2005 — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:46:25 GMT

Someone made a mistake and he's taking the heat.

People make mistakes. Not all of them cost millions of dollars when they make them, but life goes on in the big city.

Order in the court

Former security chief grilled by CT Lottery lawyer at hearing

Lottery Post — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:32:12 GMT

Fallout from 2018 botched raffle draw continues

A hearing on an ex-lottery official's whistleblower complaint grew heated Wednesday over the question of why a Connecticut Lottery Corp. drawing team entered the wrong numbers into a computerized random number generator on Jan. 1, 2018, in a million-dollar blunder that required a do-over drawing two weeks later and has never stopped causing trouble since.

Wednesday's heat arose from lottery lawyer Jim Shea's cross-examination of Alfred DuPuis... [ More ]