By Jim Suhr 

Kansas suit adds to woes of man at center of lottery scam

 

March 16, 2017



KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit by the state of Kansas accuses the man at the center of a multi-state lottery number-fixing scam of working with two others to redeem two rigged lottery tickets for $44,000.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Tuesday he filed the Shawnee County lawsuit against Eddie Tipton and two others who Schmidt says turned in the tickets to the Kansas Lottery. Schmidt alleges Tipton used software manipulation to rig the tickets.

Tipton, 54 and of Flatonia, Texas, once worked as the information security director for the Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Associati...



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