Eddie Tipton looks over at his lawyers before the start of his trial in in July. (Brian Powers, Des Moines Register file)
Re: “Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteries,” Dec. 19
After reading about Eddie Tipton’s multistate lottery scheme involving misuse of high-tech insider information, and “planted” jackpot co-conspirators, it looks like the numbers game is organized-crime racketeering after all — just like the federal statutes defined it before so many state governments got into the field and declared it “recreation.”
As an aside, if heavily regulated and highly computerized state lotteries are so corrupted, when are we to expect a similar revelation about public elections?
Peter Ehrlich, Denver
This letter was published in the Dec. 23 edition.
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