An employee of the lottery association will sit on 25 for years for fake millionth winnings

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The former lottery worker faces up to 25 years in prison for rigging jackpots in five different states, with the result that he received a net profit of $ 2 million over six years, he says Daily Mail.

54-year-old Eddie Tipton worked for ten years at the Lottery Association in central Iowa, where it was his job to create computers that were used to randomly select numbers in lottery games in the United States.

During this time, Tipton secretly installed software that allowed him to choose winning numbers and collect money from jackpots in several states.

Luck turned away from Tipton when he was arrested in 2015. He later admitted that he falsified the lottery six times in five different states in the period from 2005 to 2011, earning $ 2 million during this time.

“The extent of his deception is staggering,” Iowa Assistant Attorney General Rob Sund said in court. “Such crimes cannot be responded to without imprisonment.”

In 2005, Tipton won his first “dishonest” jackpot in Colorado, after which he began building his own 4800 square foot home with a cinema and gym on 22 acres with a pond outside Des Moines.

Over the next six years, Tipton continued to fake lottery games in five states, earning over $ 2 million.

However, his employer trusted him, and in 2013, he even offered to head the information security department, putting him in charge of protecting those computer systems that he was deceiving.

In July 2015, Tipton was convicted of falsification Hot Lotto, in order to win the $ 14 million jackpot, and then tried to attract friends to get a prize for it.

Although Tipton never received a winning amount, he was charged with two counts of fraud, and the jury found him guilty after five hours of discussion.

A further investigation into Tipton's dishonest work revealed his other winnings.

He pleaded guilty in June of this year.

Tipton agreed to tell the authorities in detail how he changed the computers and who helped him in this.

Tipton admitted to tamper data Hot Lotto in Colorado in November 2005, Megabucks in Wisconsin in December 2007 of the year, 2by2 in Kansas and Hot Lotto in iowa in december xnumx of the year and Hot Lotto in Oklahoma in November 2011 of the year.

Tipton hired his brother Tommy Tipton, a former Texas judge, a friend of Texas businessman Robert Rhodes, and others to buy tickets and mark pre-agreed numbers.

Now Tipton faces 25 years of imprisonment for rigging the jackpot. And accomplices awaiting trial.

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