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Lottery Post member turns up the heat on the Hoosier LotteryReply
If anyone has any questions regarding security measures, pre and post drawing tests, rotation and retirement of ballsets and machines, all they have to do is inquire from their state lottery as to how and when it is done. Each state varies as to how that information is disseminated but it should be available as a matter of public disclosure. Yes, I believe that ball lottery draws are random and that just because someone doesn't win it doesn't mean that they were purposefully excluded from t
Feb 1, 2006, 1:47 pm - konane - Lottery News

Pennsylvania man loses thousands to lottery scamNews Story
Gary Young said he should have known better, but the promise of thousands of dollars clouded his judgment a bit.Now, the North Sewickley Township man is out more than $3,500, the victim of the latest scam to target the region.In a letter dated Dec. 15, from the purported Transmerica POS Prize Pool Lottery, Young was told that he had until Dec. 30 to claim a $50,000 prize. To claim the prize, he had to take a Transmerica check, worth $3,950, and cash it, so that he could wire money to the lottery
Jan 30, 2006, 7:30 am - Todd - Lottery News

Hoosier Lottery Does It AgainReply
Jim695 I have gone out of my way to say how I feel for you all living in Indiana and dealing with the Indiana lottery. While I may have questioned some of your posts about the numbers people are betting and no one seems to win. I still say that as far as I know or anyone else for that matter. Information posted about how many winning tickets were sold might not be accurate complete, or otherwise correct on the webpages provided by the Indiana lottery. I have a very hard time believing people don
Jan 16, 2006, 3:16 pm - four4me - Lottery Discussion Forum

Tenn. Lottery officials give no details on harassment allegationsNews Story
Tennessee Lottery officials aren't sharing documents and other details about former state treasurer Steve Adams stepping down as the lottery's chief administrative officer following an investigation into allegations of workplace harassment.Lottery spokeswoman Kym Gerlock refused Friday to give any details of the allegations, which were investigated internally by the Tennessee Lottery general counsel. She cited attorney-client privilege and an interest in protecting the identities of the employee
Jan 9, 2006, 9:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Penn. Lottery's Raffle Drawing Creates Four New MillionairesReply
BLAIR COUNTY WOMAN CLAIMS FIRST OF FOUR, $1 MILLION PRIZES FROM LOTTERY RAFFLE DRAWINGRemaining top prize tickets were sold in Adams County, Allegheny County and Philadelphia MIDDLETOWN Marsa Albright of Martinsburg, Blair County, is the first to claim a $1 million top prize from the Pennsylvania Lotterys first-ever Millionaire Raffle game.The selection of four $1 million top-prize raffle tickets and five $100,000 second-prize raffle tickets, which came from a pool of just 500,000 tic
Jan 6, 2006, 2:00 pm - sirbrad - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery plans expensive personnel movesNews Story
Shaheen to hire 18 deputies and assistants at pay up to $190,000Tom Shaheen won't be the only lottery official who makes more money than the governor.Shaheen, the executive director of North Carolina's new lottery, said yesterday that he's getting ready to hire six deputy executive directors who could make as much as $190,000 their first year.An additional 12 assistant directors could make as much as $156,000 under the plan, which the N.C. Lottery Commission approved.At their highest level, the
Dec 9, 2005, 7:06 am - Todd - Lottery News

I don't much like the scratchers.Reply
I hate them. Predetermined, and absolutely no skill can be applied. But of course I am sure o woman who lives in my neck of the woods does not think the same.BETHLEHEM WOMAN WINS TOP PRIZE IN $1 MILLION BLOCKBUSTER INSTANT GAME, TWICE --> Goeppert Wins $1 Million in January And Again In JuneMIDDLETOWN: June 13, 2005: Pennsylvania Lottery Executive Director Ed Mahlman this afternoon announced that Donna Goeppert, 55, of Bethlehem, Northampton County, is the latest winner of the top prize in the
Nov 13, 2005, 4:56 pm - sirbrad - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Oklahama Lottery's Pick 3 game takes offNews Story
After four weeks of scratch-offs, the Oklahoma Lottery has diversified on schedule.In a Tuesday meeting, the lottery's commission approved the sale of online tickets. The system started up on Thursday around 5 a.m.The state's first online game, Pick 3, offers a crack at $500 each day including Sunday.Odds are players statewide will recoup 50 percent of what they spend on Pick 3 tickets. Prizes are set and there is no swelling jackpot, as Oklahoma will see with Powerball's expected January arri
Nov 11, 2005, 7:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

TrustsReply
Your FIRST priority is to protect your windfall from LIABILITY. By establishing a trust you establish a separate entity in which to title the funds. There are practical reasons for this. Let's say one day you get into your car and with every intention to exercise due care you look first in all directions and seeing nothing you very slowly start to back out of your parking space. What you did not see was that little kid on his trike now squashed under your wheels....dead. No doubt his family
Oct 19, 2005, 4:20 am - GuessWhat! - Lottery Discussion Forum

Record Jackpots
Record Jackpots of the World by cash prize (in millions of US dollars):Rank: Cash: Annuity: Date: Winning ticket purchaced in: # winning tickets: Game:1. 180 363 May 9, 2002 IL, MI 2 The Big Game (Mega Millions)2. 176.7 331 April 16, 2002 GA, IL, NJ 3 The Big Game (Mega Millions)3.
Oct 12, 2005, 6:48 pm - dvdiva - Jackpot Games Forum