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California Lottery settles lawsuits with two former security staffNews Story
Employees were fired for questioning two jackpot payouts The California State Lottery has paid more than $500,000 to settle lawsuits filed by two former investigators who claimed they were fired for calling attention to jackpots they believed the lottery improperly awarded to recipients who could not prove they were winners. The two ousted lottery cops had flagged a $2 million jackpot in 2015 and a $750,000 prize in 2016 that they argued should not have been paid. It was a travesty the
Oct 9, 2018, 9:25 am - Todd - Lottery News

CT Lottery security chief on paid leave following review of botched raffle drawNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. has placed its $139,000-a-year year security director, Alfred DuPuis, on a paid leave pending possible disciplinary action after an internal investigation concluded that he acted with gross neglect... of his duties leading up to a million-dollar blunder in a Jan. 1 drawing. (See Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error', Lottery Post, Jan. 2, 2018.) Interim lottery CEO Chelsea Turner imposed the leave Thursday. That was
Feb 17, 2018, 8:28 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Network of dummy online stores used to hide internet gambling paymentsNews Story
A network of dummy online stores offering household goods has been used as a front for internet gambling payments, according to a recent investigation. The seven sites, operated out of Europe, purport to sell items including fabric, DVD cases, maps, gift wrap, mechanical tape, pin badges and flags. In fact, they are fake outlets, part of a multinational system to disguise payments for the $40 billion global online gambling industry, which is illegal in many countries and some U.S. states.
Jun 26, 2017, 6:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

California lottery retailers investigated for massive prize claimsNews Story
Are California Lottery retailers beating the odds, or is there something more going on? A local media investigation found some store owners cashing in winning lottery tickets at surprising rates. It's one of the winningest lottery stores in the Bay Area: Dolce Espresso in San Jose has reported 212 winning tickets worth $600 or more in the past decade. The luckiest winner is owner Minh Nguyen. He's claimed 87 of them. At the Jelly Donut in Daly City, owner Frank Huynh claimed 15 winning
Oct 31, 2014, 1:13 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery is not random it's predeterminedReply
Just think about it in midday Wisconsin the digit #5 hasn't been hit since January 6th IOW, the #5 has come up, but by limiting the data points you're looking at you can find a partial set of data in which it doesn't show up. Cool. Still, let's pretend that the midday drawing, using the exact same procedures and equipment as for the other drawings (and ignoring the results of any test drawings that might be conducted), is somehow completely separate from those other drawings. Each time
Feb 5, 2026, 4:34 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Family claims biggest EuroMillions jackpot in Irish history at €250 millionReply
Steps to take after winning Big in Lottery 1. Freeze all your Credit reports and Credit lines. 2. Put your phone permanently on Do Not Disturb and use the emergency Bypass to communicate with loved ones and family and friends. It will still show you missed number so you can delete or neglect but your phone never rings when they call. 3. Get 20 bank accounts minimum. One for your generosity one for yourself one for business one for emergency one for Taxes one for fun etc 4. Buy a
Jul 27, 2025, 8:45 am - Powerball765 - Lottery News

What type of lottery winner would you be?
Let s assume that you win big on the lottery, by winning big I assume over 50 million after you have paid all taxes. What type of winner would you be? Would you be the type that wants financial security in the money? Hurray!!! I won 50M but will still drive my 1950 Toyota, live in my 1940 mobile home that I got for 25K. These are the type of winners who don t want to touch the money, all they want is the financial security that the money provides but they don t want to spend even a dime
Nov 17, 2023, 1:18 pm - JustMaybe - Lottery Discussion Forum

Record $1.9 billion Powerball drawing delayed until TuesdayNews Story
By Todd Northrop One of the most hotly-anticipated lottery drawings of all time never happened Monday night, as lottery officials were scrambling to process the massive amount of ticket sales data generated by the record $1.9 billion jackpot. Officials now estimate that the drawing should kick off sometime Tuesday morning. A specific time has not been set. The delay was initially caused by one participating lottery that needed extra time to complete required security protocols, the C
Nov 8, 2022, 6:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

45 jackpot-winning tickets in one California Lottery Fantasy 5 drawingNews Story
Unusually high number of top prize winners in Pick 5-style game By Kate Northrop A whopping 45 winning tickets won the California Lottery's Fantasy 5 jackpot worth $344,700 on Sat., Apr. 30, with each ticket getting an equal share of the prize. The California Lottery's Fantasy 5 game had an astonishing number of winners after an interesting combination of winning numbers were drawn on Saturday. On Saturday night, the game produced the winning numbers 3, 6, 9, 36, and 39. With 4
May 6, 2022, 12:45 pm - Todd - Lottery News

What are strings?Reply
One other thing I should add is that the Step2.xlsm Excel file can be updated instead of using the other 2 Excel files that were in the zip file. There are a maximum of 3000 draws in each of the Pick 3 games if a game has that many draws from it's complete history. The link below contains just the Step2.xlsm file. I will update this Excel each morning for those who just want to download Step2. https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZJv5PXZIRrwYXodgEHqd5zUW6bDAfprwVKk When sele
Jul 4, 2021, 6:50 pm - winsumloosesum - Lottery Discussion Forum