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GTech has winning lottery ticket, checkered pastNews Story
A Rhode Island company that practically built the nation's state lottery business just added the Florida Lottery as the missing gem to its crown jewels.GTech Corp. last week became the successful bidder to run the Florida Lottery system. With Florida in hand, the company will run all five of the country's biggest state lottery systems - New York, Texas, Georgia, California and Florida. Altogether, GTech will operate 26 of the 36 state lottery systems, plus the Washington, D.C., system. We genera
Sep 8, 2003, 3:44 am - Todd - Lottery News

Players seek $250 million from Texas Lottery contractorReply
Do You Trust Gtech? If you do, I think you should take a look at how they treated Texans in years past... George Wins the Lottery by Greg Palast The Bush family daisy chain of favors, friendship and finance goes way back to Dubya's War Years. Junior Bush was a fighter pilot during the war in Vietnam; not in the United States Air Force, where one could get seriously hurt, mind you, but in the Texas air force, known as the Texas Air National Guard. Texas's toy army, an artifac
Dec 23, 2014, 5:35 pm - jimmy4164 - Lottery News

$500K lottery prize divides two elderly sistersNews Story
A passion for gambling shared by two once-inseparable octogenarian sisters has ended up dividing them, with the Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that one can sue the other for a share of a winning $500,000 lottery ticket. The court said 83-year-old Theresa Sokaitis, of Middletown, can try to enforce a written contract she signed with her 87-year-old sister, Rose Bakaysa, of Plainville, agreeing to split any gambling winnings. Sokaitis says she is due a share of a $500,000 Powerball jackpot
Aug 11, 2009, 9:27 pm - Todd - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery approves raffle, ends game, and hires new vendorNews Story
The New Mexico Lottery's board of directors was busy yesterday, approving a new raffle-style game for later this year, canceling the unique 4 this way 4-digit game, and ending an 11-year relationship with its current equipment and services vendor. Finishing a two-year process to analyze its business needs, identify revenue growth opportunities and evaluate vendor capabilities, the New Mexico Lottery yesterday selected Intralot to provide a computerized gaming system, communications network
Jul 27, 2007, 8:22 pm - Todd - Lottery News

California Lottery official fired for taking 'bonus' from hotelNews Story
A California Lottery official has been fired for allegedly pocketing gratuities tied to the weekly Big Spin TV show, where scratch-off ticket winners vie for a chance to win millions. Richard Leeson was dismissed after an internal investigation found that he received redeemable honors points from a contract to house Big Spin contestants at the Glendale Hilton Hotel, officials said. This is not the kind of thing you can make excuses for, Lottery Director Joan Borucki said Tuesday at a
Jun 13, 2007, 9:03 am - Todd - Lottery News

Take5 NYReply
Well, I'm TORKED!!! Had a T5 number here and there tonite but didnt win anything.. Not that this has anythig to do with playing the lottery, but I'm torked about something else. Im sure you've all heard and read about the latest Paula Deen controversy. And by now you must've heard The Food Network cancelled her contract too. Did you know The FN was going to cancel her contract anyway, irregardless of her latest debacle? The latest mess she has found herself in was just the straw that brok
Jun 26, 2013, 11:47 pm - GiveFive - Pick 5 Forum

N.C. Lottery accepts bids for $8 million ad contractNews Story
Four North Carolina agencies submitted proposals for the advertising contract on the state's new $8 million lottery account, the lottery said. Mullen in Winston-Salem and Howard Merrell Partners in Raleigh, both Interpublic Group shops, and independents Wray Ward Laseter and Douglas Displays, both of Charlotte, submitted bids for the account. The bids were opened late Friday at the lottery's offices in Cary, N.C. A three-person panel of lottery executives will cut the field to three final
Jan 31, 2006, 7:41 am - Todd - Lottery News

Court rejects Colorado man's claim to full $4.8M lottery jackpot he unwittingly split with scammersReply
Anyone who's not a moron should understand that the only reason this guy won anything was because his numbers were fraudulently selected as the winning numbers. That means that the court reached the reasonable decision, but they got there the wrong way. The lottery and Massihzadeh both entered into the contract believing that the drawing, and therefore the winning and distribution of the prize, was fair. As we now know that belief was a mutual mistake, unless one of the parties knew at the ti
Jun 21, 2019, 1:20 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Mega Millions sets world record with $1.6 billion lottery jackpot for Tuesday drawingReply
Its like you signed a top-level NBA contract for 30 years. Westbrook makes 41 mil a year and his contract is for five years. I would still take the lump sum for many reasons, including estate taxes.
Oct 20, 2018, 12:57 pm - benjibanks - Lottery News

Aunt threatens to sue nephew over lottery jackpotReply
I am not sure what you mean by contract law. You have a legal expect quoted in the article who did not rule out verbal agreements. This is not a small claims case so the money involved has little to do with the type of law applied. We are waiting to see what supercedes only...the signature or the verbal dialogue. There clearly was not a meeting of the minds on any contract.
Jul 16, 2018, 6:13 pm - Artist77 - Lottery News