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2nd person claims lotto tickets were tampered with


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Updated: 5/04/2012 7:53 am Published: 5/03/2012 10:46 pm
LITTLE ROCK, AR - Every lottery ticket is different and in a lawsuit filed against the Arkansas Lottery Commission, so are the stories of the people involved.

"It's just one lie behind the other," said Dewayne Perry.

Perry is the latest to consider joining in - or filing his own - lawsuit concerning tampered lottery tickets at Raceway on University Ave.

Perry believes clerks scratched just enough off of an Arkansas Millionaire's Club game to tell winning tickets from losing ones. Rick Tomboli filed a lawsuit against the Lottery Commission last week after noticing the same problem.

"They're scamming, man. That's what they're doing," said Tomboli.

Tomboli's lawsuit claims there is a "problem in the manufacture" of the tickets. The Lottery Commission came forward saying the tickets were not flawed in the printing process, but that "we simply have lottery tickets which were scratched by someone, possibly in violation of the law."

Fox16 spoke exclusively to the Raceway clerks fired after the tampered tickets were reported.

"It had a little scrape on it or whatever he was like it looks like its been tampered with," recalled Clarence Walker, former clerk for Raceway. "I was like well I don't put the tickets in. I don't know nothing about that."

But Perry's biggest concern is the game is still on store shelves, today.

"I think it's going on at more places than just that store they just haven't been caught," said Perry.
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whocares - 5/4/2012 4:12 PM
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all of that money that the lottery is making really needs to be handed to the people that have been on their jobs that have not been able to get a raise in the past few years, every year the Education Officials raise college tution which defeats the purpose of having the lottery, im putting three kids in college now and its no joke

wpsark - 5/4/2012 8:50 AM
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sounds like the lottery commission needs to be suing Raceway for tampering..

oldschool - 5/4/2012 7:53 AM
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Anywhere money is involved with something, there will be some type of dishonesty. You will find crooks at the top of the ladder, in the middle an at the bottom of the ladder. Just don't waste your money on this crap..

dilligaf - 5/4/2012 7:28 AM
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Here is my question. If the clerks are scratching some of the areas off on the cards, why sue the lottery? The lottery can not be responsible for the actions of a clerk at a c-store. This is all about money and greed.
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