WVa board admonishes former lottery director for moonlighting

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cottoneyedjoe — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:32:45 GMT

This story confirms what I've always said about appointments to executive and leadership positions at a state lottery agency. They are largely given away as favors to political allies because the lottery can pretty much run itself once it's been set up. Make a big donation to the governor's election campaign, and get your wife's nephew's wife appointed as a VP of such and such at lotto head quarters. I mean, lots of state agencies are like that, but the lottery especially so. Vendors like Scient... [ More ]

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noise-gate — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:24:00 GMT

Weird. According to Gov Justice's comments back in 2018 when Alan resigned, Larrick had done an excellent job would be missed. Under Larrick's command, the WV lottery saw a 12% increase in instant sales, a$12 mil sales increase from the previous year. So an investigation into Larrick's side job shows he essentially did nothing wrong but he needed to be admonished?

*That's like the highway patrol pulling you over and telling you you've done nothing wrong, you driving Great, keep it up.... [ More ]

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music* — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:09:55 GMT

Good work by the Lawyer Disciplinary Board.

No one is above the law.

WVa board admonishes former lottery director for moonlighting

Lottery Post — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:19:09 GMT

A state board that oversees lawyers in West Virginia admonished one of the governor's former cabinet secretaries for moonlighting at his old law firm while serving as the Lottery Director, defying state law.

The Lawyer Disciplinary Board found no evidence that former Lottery Director Alan Larrick used state resources in his private practice or leveraged his state job to benefit his legal clients.

However, the board found Larrick knowingly continued to engage in the practice of law while se... [ More ]