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

Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by huebnerob on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:23PM (#15084733)

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 out there are successfully running schemes like this and just never arouse suspicion.

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by wolco on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:11PM (#15085201)

The family friend would have been fine.

The problem was not enough legwork. That person should have played those numbers for a few months or at least weeks before hand.

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by lazerpants on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:29PM (#15084777)

As a thought exercise, what do you think the minimum distance between the cheater and the payout would need to be in order to avoid detection?

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by bluGill on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:47PM (#15084931)

High enough that you can't fully trust the guy getting the payout to share.

If someone you just vaguely know made you an offer to get this payout would you accept it or turn them in? Most of us reading this make enough money that we can afford to be honest in cases like this, so it is a moral question only - are you really dishonest enough to cheat?

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by 0xfeba on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:58PM (#15085059)

Yeah I'd accept that, without much hesitation.

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by twothamendment on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:08PM (#15085639)

I don't know if distance matters. Let's say he found the perfect stranger who agrees to this. I think the bigger problem would be how do they exchange $7,000,000 in a way that nobody will notice?

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by falsedan on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:49AM (#15089019)

Money-laundering is cheap and easy.

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by TearsInTheRain on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:32PM (#15084808)

at minimum a bacon number of 2

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by nasredin on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:18PM (#15092595)

AKA Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by falsedan on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:47AM (#15089007)

> 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.

Now this is a prestige TV series I would watch.

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