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Mastermind of lottery fraud admits he rigged jackpots, reaped rewards

by DAVID PITT, Associated Press (Courtesy: MGN) AA DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who helped write the computer code behind several U.S. lotteries, including some of its biggest, pleaded guilty Thursday to masterminding a scheme through which he rigged the winning numbers for jackpots in several states and collected millions of dollars. Eddie Tipton, who worked for the Multi-State Lottery…