Convicted Lottery Cheat Wins New Jackpot
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BUCHAREST, Romania - A man who went to prison three years ago for claiming that he was robbed of Romania's biggest ever lottery prize has won a new lottery jackpot - this time for real.
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Home Secretary David Blunkett said Thursday he plans to bar convicted felons from benefiting from financial windfalls while behind bars after a jailed rapist won 7 million pounds (US&#36;12.6 million) on the national lottery.
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Two dozen people cheated casinos in several states and Canada out of at least $3.3 million over five years by using technology and bribes to rig card games, federal prosecutors alleged in indictments unsealed Thursday.
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Luck has run out for a Swedish teenager with a winning lottery ticket. Lottery officials say the scratch-off ticket is worthless, because it was stolen.
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BLACKSTONE, Massachusetts - A man who retrieved a $1 million lottery ticket from the trash reached a settlement with the family of the man who claimed he accidentally threw it away.  Edward St.
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As reported by This is London: "New London casinos could pay out slot machine jackpots of up to 2.5 million, it emerged today.
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Juan Rodriguez is the sole winner of Friday night&#39;s $149 million Mega Millions jackpot. The 49 year-old was joined by his family Sunday to accept that big check with all those zeros in it.
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MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - A woman from Newfoundland purchased a lottery ticket worth &#36;17.7 million Saturday, after scolding her husband for buying the wrong ticket.
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An Australian 419 fraudster who conned AU$5m from his victims was today jailed for four years on 10 counts of fraud and one of perverting the course of justice by the NSW District Court theage.com.au reports.
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A Swedish teenager who shoplifted a winning lottery ticket that could be worth as much as $1 million has discovered the truth in that old adage 'crime doesn't pay.' The 15-year-old boy stole the scrape-off ...
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A former asylum seeker who exploited immigrant workers is convicted of money laundering.
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A prominent former banker was convicted on Sunday in a $2.2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into an economic tailspin four years ago.
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French police are holding a man for questioning on suspicion of cheating a lottery winner out of a 35.5 million euro (23.9 million pounds) win last month, a police source said on Tuesday.
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With just 78 cents in his savings account and &#36;44,000 owed to creditors, parking attendant Juan Rodriguez plunked down &#36;1 on a lottery ticket. Good thing he wasn't pinching pennies: He won a &#36;149 million lottery jackpot.
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A new downloadable computer game is offering online gamers a jackpot of $100,000 for the most accurate interactive copycat killing of President John F. Kennedy.
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A group of Canadian co-workers will finally receive C$5.75 million ($5.75 million) in prize money, three years after their winning lottery ticket was allegedly stolen and cashed in by a retailer.
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TORONTO (CP) - Tze-Lam Chan will be doing Tuesday morning what every worker dreams of: calling his boss to tell him he's quitting after winning the &#36;26.8-million jackpot in the Super 7 lottery.