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It's time the lottery needs to stop releasing a person name and picture when a big win is won!Reply
Oh, and I forgot this - you said it in another thread, too, but I looked and found one where the courts had ruled for and another where they had ruled against: The courts have upheld lottery privacy laws... There was this case Stone Street Capital, Inc. v. Bureau of State Lottery where one of those companies who buy lottery annuities wanted the information released to them. They lost their case, but it's interesting reading. Here's an article posted in here from a few yrs. ago about
Feb 20, 2015, 11:41 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery Discussion Forum

NC Powerball winner identifies herselfReply
Not lottery winners BUT there are 3 in this article published in 2010 http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ys-investopediamoneyloss031010 Scottie Pippen... Lost $127 Million Evander Holyfield....Made over $250 Million, reportedly broke Mike Tyson......Squandered $350-400 million John Daly..admitted gambling away between $50-60 Million
Feb 14, 2015, 9:07 am - CDanaT - Lottery News

Winning a large jackpot. Now what?Reply
An attorney is the first person I would hire. They would setup a trust or LLC and collect the winnings for me, keeping my name private. If you go for an advisor, most would suggest fee-only advisors (http://www.napfa.org/) and ones that hold a CFP certificate (http://www.cfp.net/). Fee only removes a lot of conflicts of interests. That doesn't mean fee based (commission) is bad, but your advisor may be tempted to have you invest in something purely to make himself more money. Here's an articl
Feb 9, 2015, 1:11 am - ttech10 - Lottery Discussion Forum

MUSL employee arrested in Hot Lotto jackpot mysteryReply
Maybe you should reread the article, too. It took most of 4 years for the lottery to determine that the ticket was invalid because the purchaser worked for the lottery. The correct approach is for the lottery to assume there's a problem and use security procedures to establish the ticket's validity, but as far as they actually knew when the Canadian guy contacted them it was valid. If the Canadian guy had been able to give them the right answers it's entirely possible that they would have made t
Jan 16, 2015, 4:24 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

N.M. man told $500k winning lottery ticket a 'misprint'Reply
There's a 1 right here for $250,000, said Wines. Right below that is another 1 and it's a $250,000 winner. But there was a problem - the maximum prize for the ticket is $250,000. The title of this article is very misleading because there never was a winning lottery ticket. Looking at the 14 in the third line it's obvious another digit was on the right side of the 1 in the first and second lines. It even says below the picture you see where not all of the other digit was scratched off. Acc
Jan 5, 2015, 3:23 pm - Stack47 - Lottery News

Scamming store owner loses lottery licenseReply
This is how: noise-gate: Since the article does not name of the owner who did the deed, l could not help thinking of a name we all familiar with...yeah that one : Patel. you: wow....racist much????? You were very quick to say 'racist' without any thought about why he might have said what he said.
Dec 29, 2014, 10:53 am - Coin Toss - Lottery News

Monopoly Millionaires put on holdReply
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20141212/ARTICLES/141219884 Lotteries developed the MONOPOLY MILLIONAIRES CLUB game concept based on feedback from players across the nation who desired a game with the potential to make many people millionaires rather than just one person winning many millions, said Alice Garland, executive director of the N.C. Education Lottery. But sales have disappointed the participating lottery agencies, Garland said. The focus now will be on reviewing and improvin
Dec 12, 2014, 7:05 pm - ThatScaryChick - Lottery Discussion Forum

We have 6 Internet Cafes in OhioReply
why do you keep coming to my thread? Because as usual, you're posting false and misleading information. You're telling LP members about people winning hundreds of dollars in these Internet cafes when it's a fact $10 is the top legal cash payoff. If the people you know are getting paid large amounts of cash from winnings, it's illegal. I read through many threads on LP and I'm well aware of who really owns every thread and it's not you. Why are you encouraging LP members living in NE Ohio
Nov 11, 2014, 3:32 pm - Stack47 - Gaming Forum

New multi-state lottery game launches SundayReply
The maximum of 16 $1 million prizes is based on balancing the draw of offering a lot of $1 million prizes with the requirement to fund them. There is no maximum on the number of $1 million prizes. Haven't you read the press releases touting the possibility of hundreds of millionaires in a single drawing ? My info comes direct from the lottery's internal sources (MUSL). Or am I misunderstanding you? Once the jackpot is maxed out, the prize pool shifts exclusively to $1 million prizes. There IS
Oct 19, 2014, 7:39 pm - LottoMetro - Lottery News

Puerto Rico joins Powerball todayReply
Here's a poor translation of their Powerball FAQ: ANONYMOUS IF I WIN THE LOTTERY? The number 10 of May 24, 1989 Act, as amended provides that the identity of the winners of the Lotto is protected. This also applies to the Powerball game in Puerto Rico. It seems it's possible to remain anonymous. I can't find any info on whether PR taxes lottery winnings at a different rate than income - I do know up to $10k prizes are tax free. Here's an article about the 1% moving to the island
Oct 2, 2014, 11:29 pm - Toronto - Lottery News