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Virginia Lottery is Fraud: Lawsuit

RICHMOND -- Scott Hoover, a professor at Washington and Lee University, is the kind of guy who gets a thrill out of trying to beat the Virginia Lottery. Last summer, Hoover got a tip from a friend that, based on information on the state lottery's Web site, his odds of winning the $75,000 grand prize for the "Beginners Luck" scratch-off game had improved. Data showed there were still lots of available grand prizes, even though a fair number of tickets had been sold. Hoover didn't win. But he didn't just toss the ticket. He launched his own investigation to figure out what the chances were that his ticket could have been a grand-prize winner. After sending public information requests to the Virginia Lottery, Hoover said he crunched the numbers and got his answer: zero. Hoover, who teaches business courses, including statistics, alleges that he had no chance of winning the grand prize with his ticket. On Monday, he filed a claim against the Virginia Lottery, alleging it has collected tens of millions of dollars in revenue from people who bought scratch-off tickets that had no chance of winning the top prize.
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Posted by Editor at July 10, 2008 07:53 AM