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1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal. 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 ...
The host of the Pennsylvania Lottery drawings, Nick Perry, and seven others participated in a plot to "rig" The Daily Number, colloquially known as the "Triple Six Fix." On the night of April 24, 1980, the number 666 was drawn; of the then-record $3.5 million payout, $1.8 million was "paid" to those that were in on the fix.
39.957°N 75.17583°W. / 39.957; -75.17583. Cherry Street Tavern is a bar and restaurant at 22nd and Cherry Streets in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. It is notable as a local landmark that has operated in the same location since the early 1900s. [1] The bar was bought by local high school football legend John "Tex" Flannery ...
While at the store, the college student said he “felt inclined” to buy a “Game of Life” scratch-off ticket with a grand prize of $1,000 a week for life or $1 million, the lottery said in a ...
Dec. 1—PITTSTON — A Pennsylvania Lottery retailer in Pittston sold a $1 million-winning Millionaire Bucks Scratch-Off. Convenient Food Mart, 610 South Main St., Pittston, earns a $5,000 bonus ...
William " Bud " Post III (April 5, 1939 – January 15, 2006) was the winner of a Pennsylvania Lottery jackpot worth $16.2 million. Shortly afterward his brother tried to have him murdered for the inheritance. Post survived, and was successfully sued by an ex-girlfriend for a share of the winnings. By the end of his life, Post was $1 million in ...
A Powerball ticket sold in Pennsylvania won $1 million, just missing out on the estimated $951 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched five winning numbers in the drawing ...
The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.