Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison

Post by aw3c2 » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

ransom1538 wrote: post #53

Ok. Do these guys that commit white collar crime not know how a passport works? If you have millions of dollars stashed in bank accounts WHY are you in the US? Why are you buying estates and testing out a new bmwI8 and spilling champagne all over? Why not get on a plane go to Morocco (a country with an extremely complex extradition process)? wtf. Even the guy running silk road was hanging out in SF now lives in a 4x6…

Post by wolco » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

huebnerob wrote: post #12

socalnate1 wrote: post #2

How could you possibly believe you would get away with something like this.

Especially with a frankly embarrassingly poor attempt to place distance between himself and the payouts. He picked his own brother and a close family friend? Might as well have walked up to his boss every other week with a spot of feigned surprise and a new jackpot winning ticket to cash out, figuring they could direct deposit it along with his paycheck. Really makes you wonder how many moderately intelligent people…

Post by pessimizer » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

jstanley wrote: post #8

tlb wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He started in 2005 and the investigation started in 2015, so he did get away with it for 10 years. He probably could have won a few, stopped, and gotten away with it if he'd been less greedy. The code was clever, generating predictable numbers on a few particular days of the year. And it must have been subtle, to survive 10 years of nobody else noticing.

Makes you wonder how many people do get away with things like this without anybody realising.

Post by throwawaywonk » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

temp-dude-87844 wrote: post #38

rdtsc wrote: post #7

> "It's difficult even saying that with all the people that I know behind me that I hurt." It is interesting to think about who he considers he hurt. The potential winners who relied on lottery winning to secure a future for their families? The lottery workers? He is a criminal surely, but isn't the whole lottery system a tax on lack of education and it just gives false hope to people and encourages gambling. He redu…

While I support the idea that lottery and gambling is for 'entertainment purposes only', if one never buys into the lottery, they can never obtain the winnings. Buying exactly one ticket per drawing at least places one in the pool of potential winners, despite the odds being rather long. Although the expected value is still minuscule, it's an unquantifiable improvement (since we can't divide by zero). And before you…

Post by notfromhere » Wed, Aug 23, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

jrs235 wrote: post #64

SirFatty wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lotto in Illinois was introduced as a way to help pay for public education. You can guess how that ended up... hell, they were not even paying the winners for a while (maybe they still are not).

Not only is Illinois not paying winners, they're aren't selling Powerball or Mega Millions or any multi-state lottery game. http://wgntv.com/2017/06/27/powerball-mega-millions-ticket-s...