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Nebraska Probing Lottery Official's TripNews Story
An investigation into the director of the Nebraska Lottery focuses on a trip he and his wife took to Greece that was paid for by a lottery vendor, the attorney general said Thursday.The trip was legitimate business for lottery chief James Quinn, but state law bars public officials from accepting gifts of travel or lodging for their spouse while on state business, Attorney General Jon Bruning said. Quinn recently reimbursed the vendor for his wife's expenses, officials said.The $5,000 trip was pa
Feb 6, 2004, 6:35 am - Todd - Lottery News

Audit finds S.C. lottery operates efficientlyNews Story
An audit of South Carolina's nearly 2-year-old lottery found only a few areas for improvement in cost controls.The South Carolina Education Lottery agreed with almost all the recommendations made in the audit released Tuesday and has implemented many of them, commission Chairman John C.B. Smith Jr. wrote in his response.The lottery has kept costs below the statutory maximum of 15 percent of revenues, but should look at cell phone and car usage for potential cost savings, the audit said. Smith sa
Dec 3, 2003, 5:25 am - Todd - Lottery News

Audit of Colorado lottery to be released todayNews Story
Intensive review examines overall performanceAn audit of the Colorado Lottery is scheduled to be unveiled today, capping an extensive review that focused on its overall performance.As part of their focus, state auditors centered on contract management, lottery records show.Specifically, auditors inquired about Scientific Games International, the company that recently won the multimillion-dollar contract to run Powerball, Lotto and Cash 5 games. The Georgia-based company runs the lottery's scratc
Dec 1, 2003, 5:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Pool - Let's play & win together
Hi Everyone,I have decided to start a Lottery Club/Pool for everyone who wants to play in a pool. There will be NO fees or charges outside of the price of the tickets that we chose to purchase. This Lottery pool will be created and set up based on the input of all the people that sign up for membership. I will create a website and the first page on this website will be a questionnaire so all members can select and vote how we want the lottery pool to be. Again, this is not a business so there wi
Nov 26, 2003, 9:26 pm - Lottery_Analyst - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery work moving ahead of scheduleNews Story
The chief executive officer of the Tennessee lottery said yesterday that she is expecting upward of 20,000 applications for the lottery's approximately 300 jobs.Among the openings are a few senior staff positions that pay upward of $150,000 a year. Lottery CEO Rebecca Paul says she hopes to have those positions filled by the end of the week.People hired to fill those executive positions will serve on a committee that will evaluate proposals from companies wanting to snare a multimillion-dollar c
Oct 7, 2003, 5:17 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery flub pays off: Michigan co-workers win $1MReply
I thought of a way to solve this problem: have a lottery pool contract which states which numbers the pool is playing. The numbers NEVER change. Say there are 50 players. The contract should state the following 50 numbers shall be played: ticket #1 27 42 44 48 54 PB 23 ticket #2 11 17 35 58 64 PB 9 ticket #3 5 7 21 26 47 PB 22 ... ticket #50 11 25 27 50 52 PB 6 Then if the person who buys the lottery tickets wants to play on his own, fine, but UNDER CONTRACT, you MUST p
Nov 10, 2018, 3:20 pm - Tucker Black - Lottery News

Florida Lottery sued by House over contractReply
To me, with House Speaker Richard Corcoran. Jackie Schutz Gov. Rick Scott are deliberately sabotaging their fiscal budget. Why do they want to run FL. budget into the red. If this lottery contract exceed the amount of money that been set aside for it in this current budget they need to keep shopping for a better contract. There is no reason to obligate the taxpayers of Florida. The taxpayers of FL. shouldn't bail them out of the situation they're about to create
Feb 23, 2017, 9:06 pm - cbr$ - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery hopes to upgrade vending machines by end of SeptemberNews Story
The Iowa Lottery is going to work after the governor signed a bill Friday to allow them to upgrade their vending machines to modern technology. Lottery spokesperson Mary Neubauer, says they want to have something in place once the maintenance contract on the current machines expires. That contract expires September 30th, so we have a lot of work to do between now and then. But the plan is to get at least some new equipment into the field by September 30th and hopefully it would all be out the
Apr 4, 2016, 6:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery system 99% effective legal matters questionReply
No, the Investors, will basically pay for the system. Goes like this, we win 200 million in the first month, let's go with that, 100 million will go for me, and then I will sign a contract where I assume I won't play loterry anymore, I won't share it with anyone else. I cut ties. Everything they make from that point forward, is them. What your asking is if they see my system and then say that they don't believe is useful, its a bunch of garbage? They will have my system, so if after that moment
Nov 1, 2015, 9:01 pm - bienporro - Lottery Systems Forum

MegaMillions is ready to be won againReply
It may be based on 30 year treasury bond, but doesn't mean it's invested in that. Many players assume since lotteries are government sanctioned, that the annuities are government backed, but that's often not so. Below is an excerpt from PA Lottery FAQ page regarding annuities: ------- What happens to the prize money if a company who got an annuity bid goes bankrupt? Published 08/04/2003 01:14 PM | Updated 10/21/2010 04:23 PM What happens to the prize money if a company who got an an
Jan 7, 2015, 2:46 pm - Ron5995 - Lottery Discussion Forum