A younger brother of a man who was convicted of winning a big money by manipulating a hit perfectly also emerged as an accomplice

Eddie Tipton, who was convicted on charges of getting the prize money by illegally manipulating the winning number of the American lottery in 2015, was found guilty from four states including Colorado related to the illegal operation of the lottery We are preparing for a trial that may be imposed. Meanwhile, Tipton 's younger brother has also been indicted for doubt that he was involved in lottery fraud.

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Eddy · Tipton illegally operated "Hot LottoA lottery of billions of yen can be spent in Japanese yen with the lottery that specifies a total of 6 numbers of five numbers from 1 to 47 called Hotball number and one number from 1 to 19 called Hotball number It is a truly catchy lottery ticket.


Hot Lotto is not a winning number selection system using ball machines like Mega Millions and Powerball, but a mechanism to select a winning number by computer is adopted.


At that time, Eddie was in the position of the Security Director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (Hot Lotto) who managed to install the malicious code on the winning money selection computer in Wisconsin State , The prosecution was prosecuted for illegally manipulating winning numbers by hindering random number selection programs and using algorithms capable of manipulating winning numbers.


Eddie who manipulated the winning number by himself tried to trick a prize of 16.5 million dollars (about 1.8 billion yen) and failed to designate an acquaintance as a recipient of the prize money. He was arrested and convicted. In Eddie's trial, Tomy, Eddie's younger brother Tommy, appeared as a witness, contested whether Eddie was "a man who bought the lottery that won with the hot dogs" that was reflected in a super security camera, appeared " The wearing man does not resemble his older brother, the older brother does not dislike hot dogs, "he said, but Tommy's support shooting of his younger brother Tomy was also vainly entitled Eddie to" jail "for the jury It was.


And, the prosecution Tommy, who served as defense witness of Eddie made in April 2016, was indicted on fraud charges that were obtained illegally prize money of lottery. Indictment contents, Tommy ones that tried to Damashitoro the prize money $ 1.2 million in Colorado and Oklahoma (about 130 million yen), that of this lottery is also a Hot Lotto.

Traithong brothers are said to be involved in the fraudulent acquisition of six prizes in five states in the United States, the total amount is estimated to be more than $ 19 million (about 2.1 billion yen).


By adopting the process of determining winning money by computer, it should have been predicted that such fraudulent acts will take place and it is pointed out that the method of choosing the Hot Lotto winning number should be returned to the old ball system I am raised.


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