Kansas attorney general files suit against multi-state lottery association fraudster

Eddie Tipton (54), the rogue Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association employee who allegedly engineered a giant lottery game fixing scam several years ago that impacted the lottery games across 37 US states (see previous reports) is facing more charges this week.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced that he has filed charges against Tipton and two associates allegedly involved in the scam, specifying a case in which the trio allegedly conspired to cash in $44,000 from two of the rigged lottery tickets in Kansas in 2010.

Convicted of lottery fraud in Iowa in 2015, Tipton is believed resident in Texas but has gone to ground, according to media reports.

The Kansas filing seeks repayment of the $44,000, along with unspecified civil penalties for Kansas False Claims Act violations.

The two alleged Tipton accomplices claim that they were not part of a conspiracy and bought the tickets in good faith from Tipton.

Media reports from Iowa indicate that Tipton and his brother Tommy, a former Texas justice of the peace, are awaiting further trial in Iowa, where they’re accused of tinkering with computers to make lottery numbers predictable in various states. They deny the charges.

Prosecutors allege that Eddie Tipton used his position at the Multi-State Lottery Association to take advantage of a false, random number-generating program he designed and placed in lottery computers that allowed him to predict winning numbers on specific days of the year.

They claim that Tipton and diverse associates used that knowledge to buy winning tickets worth millions of dollars in Colorado, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Kansas and Iowa between 2005 and 2011 in what is believed to be the biggest lottery fraud in US history.

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