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The Wisconsin Lottery is run by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and was authorized in 1988 by the state legislature. It is a member of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL). Its games consist of Mega Millions , Powerball , Megabucks, Supercash!, Badger 5 , Pick 3, Pick 4, All or Nothing, and scratch games .
Megabucks, operated by the Wisconsin Lottery; Tri-State Megabucks ... Mega Millions, an American multi-state lottery game This page was last edited on 14 ...
The winner of the enormous prize was identified as a 24-year-old Wisconsin man. [72] On November 8, 2022, a single ticket purchased in Altadena, California, was the only winner of a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot, the largest in U.S. lottery history. [73] The prize was claimed on February 14, 2023. The winner was revealed as Edwin Castro.
Lotteries in the United States did not always have sterling reputations. One early lottery in particular, the National Lottery, which was passed by Congress for the beautification of Washington, D.C., and was administered by the municipal government, was the subject of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision – Cohens v. Virginia. [7]
The Hot Lotto fraud scandal was a lottery-rigging scandal in the United States. It came to light in 2017, after Eddie Raymond Tipton (born 1963), [1] the former information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), confessed to rigging a random number generator that he and two others used in multiple cases of fraud against state lotteries.
The Spanish Christmas Lottery is considered to be the world's largest lottery. [85] The 2011 top prize of €720 million [citation needed] was paid out as €4 million [86] (US$5.2 million) to each of the 180 tickets.
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The Department also administers the state's unclaimed property program and the state lottery. [1] The department headquarters are located at the State Revenue Building in south central Madison, Wisconsin. The current Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue is David Casey. He was appointed by Governor Tony Evers in April 2024.