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Hot Lotto case moves to jury for deliberationsReply
What if Tipton didn't buy the ticket but another insider ... Based on what we know that's certainly seems like it might be possible. The Lottery is admitting that they've got lousy security protocols that can't prevent people from tampering with the equipment, so who's to say somebody else didn't do exactly what they're claiming Tipton did? The problem with somebody else setting Tipton up to take the fall is that several of the people who seem to have been involved in trying to collect the
Jul 19, 2015, 2:21 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Hot Lotto case moves to jury for deliberationsReply
What if Tipton didn't buy the ticket but another insider who knew he was going to be on vacation in the future and would be the perfect suspect if something went wrong. This person could have stayed on the job and continued to do things normally and pointed out that Tipton was the only one not accounted for when the ticket was bought.
Jul 18, 2015, 1:08 pm - RJOh - Lottery News

Extradition trial begins this week in $16.5M Hot Lotto fraud caseReply
This story probably explains best what happened before Tipton became a suspect. And this story before tells how bizarre it really was. It's only in the accusation stage and neither Tipton nor Rhodes were found guilty of any wrong doing. We'll find out how much real evidence they have against Rhodes after the Extradition hearing.
Jun 9, 2015, 5:26 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Colorado man who unwittingly split a $4.8M jackpot with scammer is fighting the Colorado LotteryReply
Amir was neither benefited nor disbenefited by Tipton. Amir bought a QP ticket. Tipton's cheating did not make QP terminals pick one of the sets of numbers on his lucky sheet that he sent to his friends. A QP ticket has exactly the same chance of winning any drawing whether Tipton's code was running or not. After the drawing is over, it's easy to look back and say aha you only won because of Tipton but we don't make bets on past drawings. We only make bets on future drawings. Even if you know
May 1, 2019, 6:18 am - Tucker Black - Lottery News

What are the lines like where you're at?Reply
I haven't seen any lines either here in Texas. Maybe a lot of players read the Lottery Post news article titled Lottery rigging mastermind sentenced to 25 years in prison where Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), admitted to rigging computer programming code to produce winning numbers netting Tipton and his accomplices millions of dollars. Tipton was formerly a programmer with the Multi-State Lottery Association, the agency that administers st
Aug 23, 2017, 10:08 pm - LottoL - Jackpot Games Forum

Do Rng Computers Know What Numbers Not To Pick?Reply
Generally it is wrong. However a Tipton can program numbers to show up and a Tipton could also program a block so that certain combinations DON'T show up. In some states it can depend on whether you are a friend or a foe of a Tipton as to whether combinations show up or not.
Apr 13, 2016, 5:53 pm - Think - Lottery Discussion Forum

MUSL CHIEF OUSTED OVER JACKPOT-RIGGING SCANDALReply
More likely it means, Nothing to see here. Just an isolated incident that has nothing to do with how we manage things. We just had one bad employee apple who acted alone and didn't take advantage of a lack of oversight from the people who should have ensured that security procedures were adequate. Just forget it ever even happened. I haven't seen anything in the press, but the important story here isn't what Tipton did, it's that the security policies made it possible, even if it had been ju
Dec 23, 2015, 6:31 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

MUSL employee arrested in Hot Lotto jackpot mysteryNews Story
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has made an arrest in the four-year-old case involving a winning Hot Lotto ticket worth more than $16 million which the winner mysteriously decided not to claim. Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, of Norwalk, was arrested on Thursday. He has been charged with two counts of fraud, which are class D felonies. Tipton is Director of Information Security for the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), which is a vendor of the Iowa Lottery. His job prohibits hi
Jan 15, 2015, 10:44 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa lottery lawsuit granted class action, affecting 7.2 million tickets in 19 statesReply
I guess $9 mil is not good enough for Ol Lucky Larry. I'm pretty sure that everybody who doesn't work for the lottery thinks the $16 million that Tipton tried to claim is prize money that the lottery shouldn't be keeping. There's absolutely no doubt that if Tipton didn't have a fraudulent ticket with numbers that wouldn't have come up if he hadn't rigged the game that money would have gone to a different player (or players) in that or a future drawing. That means there's also absolutely
Jan 30, 2019, 1:57 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Lottery scandal unlikely to affect New Mexico, official saysNews Story
The expanding investigation of a former security chief for the national association that operates Powerball, Mega Millions, Hot Lotto and other lotteries is unlikely to affect New Mexico at this point, state lottery CEO David Barden said this week. State officials, however, have been in touch with Iowa investigators, cooperating with them and providing requested data on some local jackpot winners. Eddie Tipton, who worked for the Des Moines-based Multi-State Lottery Association since 2003
Dec 26, 2015, 1:35 pm - Todd - Lottery News