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New CT lottery chief draws flak over his response to auditors' report on Jan. 1 drawing disasterNews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s new president and CEO, Gregory Smith, was hired this past July amid hopes of a fresh start for the agency that was hit by a million-dollar mistake in a Jan. 1 drawing, after enduring two years of turmoil following a fraud scandal that shut down the 5 Card Cash game in 2015. But Smith has quickly been drawn into a controversy stemming from those very same problems after writing a letter to two key state legislators in which he defended the lottery agency for act
Nov 26, 2018, 7:45 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery installs new gaming systemNews Story
Includes video report By Todd Northrop The Kansas Lottery's new, advanced central gaming system is now live at more than 1,700 Kansas Lottery retailers across the state. This follows a successful conversion by the Lottery's new technology partner Scientific Games as part of an overall plan to responsibly increase returns to the State of Kansas. The Lottery's data transfer and official switch-over from the old systems technology took place July 29. Careful planning started more than
Aug 1, 2018, 10:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery hires director of Illinois Lottery as new CEONews Story
The Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s governing board voted Thursday to hire Gregory Smith, acting director of the Illinois Lottery, as its new CEO in hopes of stability after nearly two years of turmoil, recriminations and investigations at the quasi-public agency with a $1.2 billion annual budget. The lottery's top job had been vacant since Sept. 22, 2016, when last CEO, Anne Noble, stepped down amid controversy and entered an unusual and lucrative severance agreement with the agency's board of d
Jul 6, 2018, 10:10 am - Todd - Lottery News

Two CT Lottery employees suspended without pay for their roles in botched raffle drawingNews Story
Two middle-level Connecticut Lottery Corp. employees have been suspended without pay in the continuing fallout from a million-dollar mistake in the Jan. 1 drawing that selected winners in the New Year's Super Draw game. Disciplined for neglect of duty were drawing supervisor Valerie Guglielmo and investigator Robert Balicki. Both served on a five-member drawing team that mistakenly excluded 100,000 of 214,601 eligible tickets that had been sold to players. The error resulted in a do-over draw
Mar 23, 2018, 8:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

71-year-old Texas construction worker claims $177 million Mega Millions lottery jackpotNews Story
Ticket was purchased in Arkansas and is the state's largest-ever jackpot winner Includes video report By Todd Northrop A couple from Abernathy, Texas, Monday claimed a $177 million jackpot in Arkansas from the March 31 Mega Millions drawing. Eliberto and Anita Cantu claimed the prize Monday during a press conference in Arkansas. They chose to take the prize as a lump sum so the amount was $72,901,274. The State of Arkansas said it took $7,504,543 in taxes. Their son, Rodrigo Ca
Apr 19, 2017, 10:36 am - Todd - Lottery News

Study: N.C. Lottery scammers have cheated state out of $7 millionNews Story
Lottery scammers have cheated North Carolina out of an estimated $7 million in back taxes and delinquent child support since 2009, a non-partisan arm of the General Assembly said. At the request of a state legislator, the Fiscal Research Division teamed up with a UNC-Chapel Hill statistician to calculate the loss following an Observer investigation that found dozens of players winning the lottery so often that their luck defies logic. Highlighted in the Observer's series was a lucrative se
Dec 7, 2016, 3:55 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Play at the Pump slow to take off in NCNews Story
In January 2015, the North Carolina Education Lottery joined an effort to make convenience stores more convenient for potential lottery players by allowing them to play the lottery digitally while filling up their gas tanks. Play at the Pump, a cloud-based payment platform, allows people to play Mega Millions, Powerball and Cash 5 without going into the store. With the swipe of a debit card and a $1 transaction fee, players can get their numbers for the next drawing. Linq3, an Atlanta soft
Dec 3, 2016, 9:16 pm - Todd - Lottery News

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
REMEMBER WHEN BILL CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT? (January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001 two terms) When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over an attempt to reform health care. Her proposed plan was so bad that many Democrats came up with competing plans of their own in protest, and in spite of threats and intimidation, on September 26, 1994, the Hillarycare bill was declared dead. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million for stud
Oct 16, 2016, 4:37 pm - grwurston - Lottery News

British Columbia Lottery taking bets on US electionReply
Trump goes out to the average person making his case while Hilda throws dinners for #250,000.00 per plate. Who pays $250K for one meal? I wonder how many on her guest list were people who got rich standing up for the common man or woman. Hilda says Trump is a not trustworthy and is not presidential material while her entire past is riddled in scandal. Many of these scandals would have led to prison had the evidence not been destroyed, deleted, lost or laws passed making it un
Oct 9, 2016, 11:34 am - RL-RANDOMLOGIC - Lottery News

Sully, Moon, Empress L@@K @ Master Number 11 PredictionaReply
Neptune stationed retrograde on Monday, June 13. On June 17/18 Saturn comes around squares Neptune - a 90 aspect in astrology that results in a strong tension that stimulates Action. This transit of Neptune square Saturn defines all of 2016. It has been in place since November, 2015 and continues its powerful impact on the world through 2016 with big culmination this month, coming together for us in a powerful way right before the Full Moon on Monday. Neptune is the plane
Jun 15, 2016, 6:46 pm - eddessaknight - Mystical Forum