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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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.