It is frequently suspected that Powerball is just a giant money laundering scheme. See if anyone actually wins and claims it? My guess the winners from the large jackpots are always from states where you don't have to publicly claim.
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Yeah, this is a no-brainer. Of all the money schemes they run, lottery is the easiest to rig. Its not just money laundering, but also way to pay for their crimes without paper trail, is what I believe.
True. But I still play on occasion. If I (we) win I will contribute more than half to the real history center of planet earth, because we don't have one... :o
Why would it matter if there is a public name to the winner? Identities can be faked/created if necessary.
Either way, I can say I worked for a family of farmers (10 years ago) who won a 8 digit powerball jackpot. They still farmed. They lived small. Never would I suspect them of being in on anything nefarious.
I think its possible but improbable due to publicity. There are easier ways to trade for illicit acts.
Same here, I personally know someone who has won a substantial amount.
$1 billion dollar direct cash injection from the sheep. A lot less hassle than pilfering tax payer dollars. Plenty of both happening of course.
Thats not really money laundering though, its fraud.
Money laundering is moving "dirty" money made from illegal services/trade to a person in a way that appears legal. Something like modern art, where value is subjective and can conjured in a small period of time and sold for millions with zero oversight. Businesses that have few/no customers but money comes in daily in the ledgers. This is money laundering.
Again, its possible the mega lotteries are fixed and controlled. It wouldn't surprise me at all if its happened before. I think identity or transparency is a poor indicator of fraud though. Anyone can win.
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https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=epstein+won+lottery+twice
Many many years ago I knew a guy who worked for a local TV station who said they sometimes received the "live" lottery drawing videos hours before they are supposed to be filmed live (this is when things were done on VHS tapes).
He explained that the drawings are done before the following weeks' games even begin and they have a way of setting the computers so that any number combination can be generated except for that particular combination. Then they can either generate that one winning ticket and have somebody claim it, or they can launder it in a different way and then pay somebody a million dollars to say they won the thirty-million dollars.
He said that those people who get 5 out of 6 numbers and win a million - those are genuine. He said also that a lot of the time the games are legit and people really do win. They don't rig every single game.
I don't know about you but if somebody paid me 20 million dollars to go on camera and say I won a billion I would jump at the chance.
For the record I haven't talked to this friend in over 25 years and I don't even remember his name. I do remember that he had unusually large ears.
Honestly, people look at the lottery stuff wrong. It's not the big prizes that they steal and siphon off, it's all the smaller stuff that goes "unclaimed". If you add up all the smaller prizes (under $10K) that are never claimed every year, you'd find that there's several billion a year that just disappears.
Of course its SUPPOSED to go to funding schools and whatnot, but it never does. It almost always ends up just disappearing into the ether.
I once heard that HGTV is Satanic.
They have a show called "My Lottery Dream Home."
How many lottery winners ARE there that are available to even shoot such a show?
Bullshit.
You mean Homosexual and Gay TV?
Yea I've seen it a few times. Didn't see any big jackpot winners....most were alleged scratch-off winners of $1M or less.
Idk about the winners being fake but I do know all they have to do is not have a winner for a week or two and then the "prize" gets so high that people that don't normally play it will play it.
Then the taxes happen. Obviously, that's why our schools are sooooo good. Kek.
Even conservatives that are against taxes tend to be willing to tax lottery at an insane rate.
The People I know that play the lottery are so used to insane taxes that they do the math before playing or in conversation:
"100 million bucks! That'd be great. Of course it's really only like 45 million but that's plenty for me!"
The last one was for Illinois who is completely bankrupt? I wonder if they need to keep it solvent for a little longer.