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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.
Nick Perry (1916–2003), mastermind of the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
History has shown us countless examples of lottery winners whose lives took a turn for the worse after hitting the jackpot.
Most people dream about winning the Mega Millions or Powerball; but they should be careful what they wish for. See these 23 people who blew their winnings.
Pages in category "1980 in Pennsylvania" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal; R. Death of Michael Rosenblum
Tony and Angela Grosso were married on June 10, 1940. [2] ( She died in 1998.) The couple has one daughter, Patty, who resided in Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Carmine Bellini Jr., and their four children until she died January 1, 2016, at the age of 72.
The scandal prompted the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to throw out some 4,000 juvenile convictions involving more than 2,300 children. Sandy Fonzo, whose son killed himself at age 23 after Ciavarella locked him up as a teen, called Conahan's commutation an “injustice.”