Todays post comes to you via the U.S. Lottery assoc.
In the never ending flood of misinformation I bring a little tidbit of verifiable malfeasance. Via one of the supposed “news outlets,” provenance unknown, veracity subject to probing.
A trust connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch collected a $29.3 million cash payout from an $85 million Powerball jackpot in 2008. Online claims and posts boosted suspicion, but officials say the jackpot was processed normally and no fraud has been proven.
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The Epstein files are a collection of documents released by courts, investigators, and journalists about sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A mail found in newly released Epstein documents claimed that Jeffrey Epstein won a $80 million lottery in 2008. Public records show that Zorro Trust, the legal entity connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s 10,000-acre Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, collected a $29.3 million after-tax lump-sum payment of the $80 million from the July 2, 2008 Powerball drawing.
However, the it is not officially confirmed if Jeffrey Epstein bought or won the lottery personally.
My reason posting this today, is that my most local lottery outlet appears to be dspensing purely fradulent tickets, despite it being a state regulated enterprise.
As an experiment, after the dates of drawings and winners didn’t line up multiple times, your sometimes humble author decided to place a one dollar bet on the lottery. As there are not many chances left this year at the one dollar level I selected a Lotto America ticket, didn’t look at the promised payout didn’t really care beyond the information it would give me. Now, I have previously worked as a cashier that sells lottery tickets, and know there are fundamental weaknesses in the scan and payout systems, due to one of my unfortunate errors in mistakenly cashing one already redeemed winning ticket. I paid out of pocket for that one, and it was my own error, but a winning ticket should not be cashed twice correct?
Here’s where the plot oatmeals. I placed a dollar bet the day after a losing drawing. 2/24/26 grand prize not selected, drawing still supposedly live. Now buying this ticket, it should have been numbers for the next drawing correct? That’s how the logic of lottery works, you can’t buy a ticket for a drawing that has already happened. But it appears what my dollar bought was a between drawing loser? Beginning and end date as well as the time of purchase were all printed on the ticket and, were the same time?
Now correct me if I’m wrong, but gambling depends on guessing future outcomes, or being lucky in some way in the future. The losing drawing was 2/24/26 the next drawing scheduled for 2/28/26 so four days for people to purchase tickets between drawings. Yet my local poor-tax machine spits out tickets that are cancelled at the time of purchase regardless of drawing times and dates?
There is still one day at time of this writing for the “numbers to come up,” in the only statewide regulated gambling venture here where I live. So how is a purchased ticket for a state drawing declared a loser at time of purchase? This was one of my small quibbles the last time I got arrested pointing out ridiculous hypocrisy. In this very Red State, the lottery is supposed to be paying for our public schools first and then general welfare programs, so it is a charitable donation on the part of the purchaser, albeit with hopes of life changing money, but do the rules allow for pre-cancelled losers without ever contributing a dime to education or the general welfare?
All the carnival games are rigged, and we know that going in, but there’s supposed to be a modicum of “fun” dispensed and at least a realistic expectation that the dates match up. Christ. I could make a better grift with expired cereal boxes.
Is there a lawyer anywhere who is going to take on this mob pro-bono or do we just get a fraudulent 12 armed bandit in my very small hometown for reasons, undisclosed to the populace. There’s a handful of real addicts to that machine, and I’d hate to think the State and Government is taking advantage of the most vulnerable




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