Lottery worker ... Eddie Tipton allegedly used his position as a lottery security official to try and rig a $14 million win for himself. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
A US man will stand trial over an intricate scheme to rig a $14 million lottery win for himself which has forced officials to revamp security systems.
Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, of Iowa, an information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, was originally arrested and charged with fraud in January when he was caught buying a ticket and getting a friend to try and collect his prize. (Lottery officials are banned from playing the lottery).
But now prosecutors allege his plot was much more intricate and that Tipton installed a selfdestructing hack program to make sure the Random Number Generator picked his number in the December 2010 lottery.
Prosecutors say Tipton tampered with security cameras in the building so he would not be caught installing the program.
"There is sufficient evidence for a jury to reasonably conclude from the evidence that Defendant tampered with lottery equipment," prosecutors wrote in their filing according to Lottery Post.
Tipton allegedly waited more than a year before he sent New York lawyer Crawford Shaw to claim his prize.
However authorities released a surveillance video which purports to shows the mystery winner buying the ticket, a man who a lottery co-worker identified as Tipton.
The man's lawyer has denied the charges.
However lottery officials say they are in the process of revamping the system's security to ensure no one ever rigs the game.
"I have confidence that the games we offer today are fair," Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich said in a statement. "Our lottery has strong layers of security in place to protect lottery players, lottery games and lottery prizes."
Iowa's lottery officials now say they've spaced out security responsibilities among more employees and replaced internal cameras, which Tipton allegedly tampered with while staging his big win.
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