Description Eddie Tipton went to prison in 2017 for masterminding the Biggest Lottery Fraud in U.
As you\'ll read in these pages, they did - against long odds..
It\'s a wild Story of greed and misplaced confidence, and a study in public officials whose determination survived a nearly cold trail, a team that insisted on being transparent and sticking with the case.
Veteran journalist Perry Beeman and retired Lottery executive Terry Rich use a vivid mixture of recorded phone calls, court documents, personal communications and the public record to give readers an exclusive Inside view of one of the most surprising and captivating white-collar crimesthe nation has seen.
Tipton\'s downfall made international news, but this book tells the Story of the investigators and public officials who solved the mystery.
Call it "The $80 Billion Gamble" because the future of the entire Lottery industry was at risk if someone didn\'t solve this case of computer tampering and multimillion-dollar prizes.
In a twisting and bizarre tale, he somehow mixed a cocktail of greed, Bigfoot hunting, deception, cybercrime and a love of hot Dogs on his way to a felony conviction after he and several accomplices scored a series of jackpots from rigged drawings but fell short on the Biggest "score\' of them all. history.
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Description Eddie Tipton went to prison in 2017 for masterminding the Biggest Lottery Fraud in U
