Fraudulent state lottery employee sent to jail

Eddie Tipton, the state lottery IT manager notorious for rigging for his personal benefit the software at the Multi-State Lottery Association has been sentenced to serve 25 years imprisonment. The sentence will run concurrently with the five-and-a-half years handed down earlier this year by a Wisconsin court.

Tipton installed a ‘rootkit’ device that caused the servers’ random number generator to deliver specific sets of winning numbers on specific drawings, for which he and associates would purchase guaranteed winning tickets (see previous reports).

Tipton pleaded guilty to a single count of ongoing criminal conduct related to his fraudulent and criminal activity.

The court, presided over Tuesday by Judge Brad McCall, heard evidence that Tipton and his co-conspirators – brother Eddie Tipton and mutual friend Robert Rhodes – claimed seven fraudulent lottery jackpots in five different states over a number of years before their scam spectacularly unravelled in 2011 when they attempted to cash in a $16.5 million Iowa Lottery Hot Lotto Jackpot ticket

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