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He started in 2005 and the investigation started in 2015, so he did get away with it for 10 years. He probably could have won a few, stopped, and gotten away wi
by tlb 9y ago
He started in 2005 and the investigation started in 2015, so he did get away with it for 10 years. He probably could have won a few, stopped, and gotten away with it if he'd been less greedy.
The code was clever, generating predictable numbers on a few particular days of the year. And it must have been subtle, to survive 10 years of nobody else noticing.
- jstanley 9y agoMakes you wonder how many people do get away with things like this without anybody realising.
- pessimizer 9y agoMost criminals get away with most crimes. 40% of murders go unsolved.
- chiliap2 9y agoWouldn't that mean they don't get away with most murders?
- heedlessly2 9y agosome deaths that are marked as accidents and suicides are actually murders
- mrleiter 9y agoThe investigation started in 2010, so five years. But still, five years is a lot.
- wyldfire 9y agoI think a big flag would be lots of winning tickets with the numbers selected. I suspect some astonishingly high rate of tickets sold are selected by the lottery terminal ("quick pick").
- rev_null 9y agoHe would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids.