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National Lottery win turned couple into benefits cheats, says judgeNews Story
Brian and Wendy Rushin had lived blameless lives until they won the money in 2002 and became misers . They were so protective of their wealth that they saved it in an array of accounts and used it only once, to buy a new fridge. Mr. Rushin, 74, and his wife, 72, also continued to claim housing and council tax benefits, taking thousands of pounds they were no longer entitled to over three years. The pair were facing prison after admitting a string of fraud charges at Leicester Magistrate
Apr 27, 2009, 10:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Colorado Lottery investigates 21-time prize winnerNews Story
Is it unfair to investigate a player just because he plays a lot? The Colorado Lottery launched an investigation into a repeat winner and his self-described system for winning the Cash Five jackpot again and again. The real reason Tadeusz Krupa wins so often may have nothing to do with luck, skill or cheating. He may just play... a lot. Krupa splits his time between two modest homes. One houses his ex-wife and children in Brighton. The other is also the office for T D Polish Imports Exp
Jan 8, 2009, 1:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery thefts tied to lax security processesNews Story
D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the District of Columbia Lottery Charitable Games Control Board. An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute in August 2006 determined the ticket thefts were most likely com
Dec 21, 2007, 12:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Book imagines low-IQ man winning $12 million in Washington lotteryNews Story
Seattle native Patricia Wood knows how winning a lottery can change a life. Her father won $6 million in 1993 in the Washington lottery. She also knows about the mentally disabled from having a former brother-in-law with Down syndrome, from working as a teacher and now as a Ph.D student at the University of Hawaii, focusing on education, disability and diversity. She has taken elements of those experiences to write her first novel, Lottery, about an Everett man, Perry Crandall, with an I
Aug 14, 2007, 11:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

7-7-7 was a lucky day!!Reply
Here's an outline...: Liar! You should be a shamed of yourself for lying to the good people here on lp Liar! You are a corrupt liar! This is a set up everyone instigated by none other than you know who? This person is lying to everyone. Dont be fooled even if a ticket is produced, that is the setup, they want you to disbelieve them, and then they will produce a ticket and everyone will believe! but dont fall for it it is a scam! It is a ticket that was produced in order to
Jul 11, 2007, 10:50 pm - pacattack05 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery winner shortchanged by storeNews Story
Man paid $1,500 on $4,000 scratch ticket The lottery machines and scratch tickets were pulled from Kirsch Liquors in Worcester, Massachusetts, last month, after a man was scammed there when he received only $1,500 on a $4,000 winning scratch ticket, a state Lottery Commission official said. The Lottery Commission will file a decision by the end of the month on whether to suspend the store's lottery license for 30 days or indefinitely. Damaso Vasquez told Lottery Commission authorities
May 3, 2007, 7:43 am - Todd - Lottery News

describe how you got started with playing the lotteryReply
My story is a little bit sorry but i am going to mention it to point out other people's situation...15 years ago when i just came to the U.S I didn't have nothing...And i've heard that my mother was very, very sick and i couldn't afford to send her nothing...I couldn't get a job and i was homeless...The only thing i could think of making a substantial amount of money to send her without having to sell drugs, robbing a bank or involved in anything bad, was winning the lottery. For exampl
Sep 21, 2006, 1:57 pm - pumpi76 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Man charged with forging lottery ticket claims it was a jokeNews Story
A Pennsylvania man charged with forging a winning lottery ticket in October was only playing a joke on a coworker, his defense attorney said today. That joke, attorney Stephen Ellwood said, was merely that (James A. Koons Jr.) wanted someone to find it and think it was real. And that someone Brian Scott Miller, 34, of Pheasant Drive South in North Middleton Township now faces charges after he allegedly found the ticket at the Middlesex Township trucking firm where he worked and tried
Apr 6, 2006, 11:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

Warning to All Girls...Must ReadReply
Nice catch, Coin Toss. Here's a snippet from Snopes.com: _____________________________________________________________________ This legend appears to have begun in late 1999 with a widely-circulated Internet message that used one specific news report as a basis for implying that ether-wielding robbers were a potentially widespread menace: Watch out-this is for real! I just heard on the radio about a lady that was asked to sniff a bottle of perfume that another woman was selling for
Mar 13, 2006, 6:58 pm - jim695 - Mystical Forum

Lottery Post member turns up the heat on the Hoosier LotteryNews Story
Is the Indiana Lottery vulnerable to inside tampering? By Kevin Leininger Fort Wayne News Sentinel You'd think Jim Grimes would be happy. After all, the retired Noble County engineer, whose concerns about the integrity of the Hoosier Lottery were the subject of a column in June 2004, helped spark an investigation that led to three indictments in an alleged million-dollar scam. But, if anything, Grimes is even more frustrated than he was when we first talked nearly two years ago - even
Jan 31, 2006, 6:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News