A former lottery worker who rigged several lottery jackpots so he could collect the winnings, admitted he was driven by greed. The judge gave him the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison for Eddie Tipton, a former security director that worked for the MultiState Lottery Association.
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Tipton admitted that he conspired to collect lottery winnings from Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Colorado. He wrote computer codes to produce winning numbers and gave the numbers to others who would share the jackpot. Tipton has agreed to pay about $2.2 million in restitution, including $1.1 million to the Colorado lottery, $644,000 to the Oklahoma lottery, $391,000 to the Wisconsin lottery and $30,000 to the Kansas lottery.
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