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The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6, were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.
In 1980, Nick Perry, TV host of the Pennsylvania Lottery, was at the centre of the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, a fraud that involved creating replicas of the official ping-pong balls used in the Pennsylvania Lottery machines. The specially weighted balls ensured that limited combinations of numbers were likely to be drawn.
1980 Pennsylvania elections (6 P) P. 1980 in Philadelphia (15 P) ... 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal; R. Death of Michael Rosenblum This page was ...
The Pennsylvania Lottery is a lottery operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was created by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on August 26, 1971; [1] two months later, Henry Kaplan was appointed as its first executive director. The Pennsylvania Lottery sold its first tickets on March 7, 1972, and drew its first numbers on March 15 ...
This list includes American politicians at the state and local levels who have been convicted of felony crimes committed while in office by decade; this list encompasses the 1980s. At the bottom of the article are links to related articles which deal with politicians who are involved in federal scandals (political and sexual), as well as ...
The Scandal:Hitler Defaults The players: Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wall Street bankers. The story : In 1919, the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I obligated Germany to pay ...
Each past scandal seems a now obvious portent of the pitfalls of mass media we continue to grapple with.
1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal; T. Gary Taylor (journalist) This page was last edited on 9 September 2020, at 03:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...