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Mass. man keeps mistake lottery ticket, wins $1 millionNews Story
A Taunton, Massachusetts, man was on the right side of a million dollar mistake, when a scratch ticket game he didn't want to play turned out to be a winner. Richard Brown, 60, came in to the Gulf in Taunton last Monday, as he had several times in the past, looking for a $5 Blue Ice 7s ticket. This time, the distracted clerk gave him a Sizzling Sevens scratcher, another $5 game, by mistake, said lottery spokeswoman Beth Bresnahan. Instead of demanding the right ticket, Brown decided he was
Aug 20, 2012, 5:12 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery knew about exploited game's flaws for years, IG saysNews Story
Massachusetts State Lottery officials knew for years that a small group of gambling syndicates had virtually taken over a game called Cash WinFall winning most of the prizes during high payoff periods but did nothing about it until the local media began investigating, according to state Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan. Sullivan's report details the way a handful of math and science wizards, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates looking for an interesting school
Jul 31, 2012, 8:43 am - Lottery News

Lucky store: Sells third $1M lottery ticketNews Story
The James Quick Mart on James Reynolds Road in Swansea, Massachusetts, must have a good luck charm stashed under its counter for the third time in the past five years, it sold a $1 million lottery ticket to one of its customers. Clerk Shiv Patel said he sold the ticket to a man who came back after scratching it to tell him of his good fortune. That night around 9 o'clock he just stopped by to say, 'I was the one who hit the million dollars and I got the ticket from here,' and I was like,
Jun 19, 2012, 4:00 pm - Lottery News

Mass. lottery winners face charges in welfare fraudNews Story
Two big time lottery winners are facing arraignment on fraud charges Thursday after the state auditor found that they collected welfare benefits during the same period that they won hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lottery. James T. Casey Jr. of Waltham did not tell welfare officials that he has won more than $700,000 since 2009, Auditor Suzanne Bump found, a period in which Caset has collected $12,157 in MassHealth benefits and $1,553 in food stamps. Casey, who had just been release
May 31, 2012, 6:46 pm - Lottery News

Man scratches a $1M winner, but lottery ticket was a misprintNews Story
By Todd Northrop A Massachusetts man thought he won a $1 million lottery prize until he realized the ticket he had was a misprint. Paul Pasquarosa of Boston, Massachusetts, was overjoyed when he learned that his Cashword scratch-off lottery ticket had matched three red words, which equals a million-dollar prize. But luck for the father of two quickly faded when the ticket was determined to be defective. Instead of becoming a millionaire, Mr. Pasquarosa was in possession of one of the
May 8, 2012, 3:20 pm - Lottery News

New England states start new lottery game ThursdayNews Story
Updated Mar. 13, 2012, 11:12 am: New game replaces Weekly Grand Extra. By Todd Northrop For the first time ever, the six New England states will jointly run a multi-state lottery game, starting this week. The new Lucky for Life regional draw game begins this Thursday, March 15 for the six following states: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massechusetts, and Rhode Island. Ticket sales for the new game started Sunday. For Connecticut, the new Lucky for Life replaces a simila
Mar 13, 2012, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery ends game that was exploited by high-rollersNews Story
State will add New England multi-state game in March By Todd Northrop Massachusetts lottery players looking to buy Cash WinFall tickets this week had their last chance on Monday, the game's final drawing. The canceled game was the talk of the lottery industry last year, when it was revealed that a small group of high-rollers had identified a weakness in the game's prize structure that would occasionally make the payouts astronomical for players who could afford to wager huge amounts of
Jan 27, 2012, 7:57 am - Lottery News

Massachusetts Lottery conducts $10M Raffle drawNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Massachusetts Lottery today conducted the state's second massive raffle drawing it's first in more than four years awarding a $7 million prize, a $1 million prize, and many more other cash prizes. However good the prizes may be for lottery players, for the state the drawing is bittersweet, since nearly half of the 1 million tickets went unsold. Lottery officials will hand out more than $10 million in prize money to 1,067 ticket holders even though the game generated
Jan 1, 2012, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

Professional lottery player wins tax disputeNews Story
Big winnings, tiny taxes Several times a week, Clarance W. Jones does something most people can only dream of: He cashes in bunches of winning lottery tickets. And even better, he has found a way to pay barely any taxes on the massive take. Over the past decade, the 73-year-old from Lynn has redeemed more than 10,000 tickets from the state lottery more than any other person worth a total of more than $18 million. He has also long fought efforts by the state to collect considerable ta
Nov 5, 2011, 9:45 am - Lottery News

Mass. Lottery game was sure-thing for a few groupsNews Story
Massachusetts Lottery officials this summer said they were surprised to learn that a handful of high-stakes gamblers had taken over one of their $2 games, with just three groups of bettors accounting for most of the winning tickets statewide at certain times. The lottery disciplined two sales agents who allowed the high-rollers to run the ticket machines themselves and announced new rules to limit the dominance of sophisticated bettors. But the Globe has found that lottery managers for years
Oct 16, 2011, 3:10 pm - Lottery News