Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr...
by weaksauce on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:21PM
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smart enough to pull it off but dumb enough to think that having your brother win a $14,000,000 prize is not suspicious and wouldn't be investigated... that's impressive.
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr...
by logfromblammo on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:50PM
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Even the stupid lizard criminal portion of my brain tells me that you never set yourself up to win the jackpot. You take the third place prize.
But even then, you need a plausible reason to be cashing in so many winning tickets, so you also spend some of your guaranteed winnings on losing tickets, and also buy a bunch that will break even. That 3rd-place prize is less suspicious if you're also cashing in 1000 $2 winners at the same time, and putting it all into a "Lottery Buyer's Club LLC" account.
It's the Superman III principle. You can steal as many half-pennies as you can haul away in a truck, but if you take even one $10000 note, someone is going to notice.