Hazel Pretzer retweeté
For over 10 years every major LOTTERY jackpot across America was RIGGED by the one man hired to make sure it wasn't.
> Eddie Tipton was the director of information security at the Multi State Lottery Association.
> His job was to protect the random number generators that decided who won jackpots across nearly three dozen states.
> He rigged them instead.
> Eddie entered the fortified Drawing Room alone and disabled the cameras to record one second per minute. 59 seconds of every minute were invisible.
> He inserted a memory stick that loaded self deleting software into the random number generator.
> The software produced winning numbers on three specific days of the year that only he knew in advance.
> His brother Tommy, a sitting Texas justice of the peace, won $568,990 in Colorado.
> Associates collected jackpots in Wisconsin, Kansas and Oklahoma.
> Tipton himself bought a $14.3 MILLION ticket at a Des Moines convenience store wearing a hoodie and walked out.
> He forgot about the security camera above the counter.
> The ticket sat unclaimed for nearly a year because nobody could figure out how to collect it without being identified.
> They tried claiming it through an anonymous offshore trust in Belize. Iowa rejected it. Winners must be identified by law.
> The Iowa Lottery released the grainy convenience store footage publicly, hoping someone would recognize the man in the hoodie.
> An employee at the Maine Lottery recognized the voice immediately.
> It was Eddie. The man who had spent a week auditing their security a few years earlier.
> A web developer at the Iowa Lottery recognized it too. She had worked alongside him for years.
> 5 states. Multiple rigged jackpots stretching back to 2005. The largest lottery fraud in US history.
> Sentenced to 25 years. Served 4 and a half. Paroled quietly in January 2022.
> His brother Tommy got 75 days.
Every time you bought a lottery ticket on those specific days and lost, the man protecting the numbers already knew who was going to win.
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