Lottery fraud charge for Canadian
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Canadian police charge a retailer with fraudulently claiming a C$5.7m lottery prize, which customers had won.
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Online bookmaker Sportingbet said its   chairman faced charges in the United States for providing   "gambling by computer," sparking fears no executive in the   $12-billion-a-year industry was safe from prosecution.
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BOSTON - Louise Outing's luck ran out Thursday when a judge denied the 94-year-old woman's request to force the state Lottery Commission to pay her entire $5.6 million winnings up front.  Superior Court Justice Barbara A.
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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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The credit card issuer took a $391 million charge because of its struggling card business in Great Britain and reported a net loss of $84.1 million.
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Japan Tobaccoâs Canadian unit was ordered by an Ontario judge to stand trial on charges it defrauded the Canadian government out of about a billion Canadian dollars ($931 million) in the 1990s by shipping cigarettes to the United States to avoid paying taxes. The judge, David Fairgrieve of Ontario Provincial Court, said in a 29-page ruling that prosecutors had presented enough evidence to warrant a trial of the unit, JTI-MacDonald. The company has denied any wrongdoing.
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20 years prison time? Three West African defendants pleaded guilty to federal charges of running an advance-fee scheme that targeted U.S. victims with promises of millions of dollars, including money from an estate and a lottery.â¦
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D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request...
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Displacement effect Card fraud in the UK fell three per cent from Â£439.4m in 2005 to Â£428m last year, according to figures from payment association APACS released Wednesday.â¦
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Former NHL player Rick Tocchet pleaded guilty Friday to running a sports gambling ring, but might not have to serve any jail time.
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EDMONTON (CP) - The Western Canada Lottery Corp. has had another problem - this time with its Millionaire Life tickets.  The lottery corporation says the incidents affect tickets bought in Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9 -- A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again.
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Police arrest nine people following allegations that the National Lottery and children's charities were defrauded.
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A MAN who conned money out of "innocent civilians" to feed his gambling habit was yesterday refused bail.   Martin Daniel Magee, from Lurgan, Co Armagh, has been charged with seven counts of obtaining property by deception.
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Canadian police have charged a former executive of Philip Services Corp. with defrauding the industrial cleaning and metals recycling company of $20 million in 1996 and 1997.
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Ghana's greed A Nigerian national who had been living in Canada was taken into custody by Winnipeg police in connection with a West African email scam alleged to have bilked an 84-year old man of $30,000.â¦
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A man who won a record &#36;315 million in the Powerball lottery was taken to jail on charges of drunken driving and carrying a pistol, authorities said.