Former employee who fraudulently executed software that manipulates lottery winning number is imprisoned for up to 25 years

A man who was former employee was convicted for installing software that illegally manipulates lottery winning numbers in the United States. It is pointed out that the possibility that lottery fraud using malicious software is occurring in amazing number of cases in the United States.

Eddie Tipton sentenced in Iowa Lottery rigging case
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A computer programmer, Eddie Tipton, who was a security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, was in charge of maintaining the fairness of the lottery. However, by misusing that position, I installed software on the system that manipulates the winning lottery in Lotto, Colorado, in 2005 to defraud the winning lot. By the way, Tippton who received the prize money is trying to build a building with a movie theater and a gym.

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Thipton, who worked in five states and six lotteries for six years, was appealed for arrest and was convicted at the jury and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment but appealed the judgment It was. The final judgment was issued on August 22, 2017, and the trial was concluded with a conviction of "imprisonment not exceeding 25 years."


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In the trial where attention was paid nationwide, Tipton said "I do not know what to say, but I regret my mistake," he talked about reflections. In addition to being sentenced to imprisonment, Tipton has been ordered compensation for Iowa State for $ 2.2 million (approximately 240 million yen).


"The prosecution authorities are conducting investigations for years without specifying the specific fraudulent action of the defendant and are actually used to select winning numbers," said Dean Stowers, a lawyer at Tipton. It is amazing that it is not interesting to look at the program that was done, "he said, criticizing the prosecution's investigation method and requesting that the period of imprisonment be reduced to several years.


A survey on winners of lottery prizes conducted in early 2017 triggered by the Tippton incident that shook the whole country revealed that there are ticket vendors that have won many times and at least since 2012 It seems that 600 ticket distributors have received the winning money, so it is pointed out that the lotteries using software are becoming hotbeds of fraud.