Deathbed plea nets brother winning lotto ticket

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 11-02-2012 11:50 PM

A fortuitous combination of high-tech ingenuity and the intuition of a woman at death's door helped restore a stolen $12.5-million lottery ticket to its rightful owners.

CBC's the fifth estate has learned exclusive details about how the rightful owners of the ticket, allegedly stolen by an insider, were found seven years after the original 2003 purchase.

Seven friends who worked together at a construction company in southern Ontario finally received their money on Jan. 27, 2011, concluding a high-profile, years-long saga.

Around Christmas in 2003, a Lotto Super 7 Quick Pick ticket was bought in St. Catharines, Ont.

That ticket, checked at a convenience store in nearby Burlington, won a free ticket — which ended up winning a $12.5-million Boxing Day draw.

Weeks later, Kathleen Chung claimed the ticket, but her win raised questions with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG). Eventually, it gave her the money.

But following a fifth estate story into insider wins and a report by Ontario's ombudsman criticizing OLG, investigators began to probe the Chung win.

Rest of this amazing story:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... state.html

I have just finished watching this story on CBC TV's "The Fifth Estate".

Diogenes · Post by **Diogenes** » 11-03-2012 10:30 PM

RA that is some story.

And I say - forget On Star - the software by Microsoft and HP Canada sure know how to track folks down.

I'm glad this ticket finally got to the rightful owners.

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 11-03-2012 11:19 PM

Diogenes wrote: And I say - forget On Star - the software by Microsoft and HP Canada sure know how to track folks down.

I gave this aspect of the story some thought too. In a way it's nice that they have the technology to track down winners but how many of us are ever going to need it?

Dude111 · Post by **Dude111** » 11-03-2012 11:42 PM

An excellent outcome indeed

Post by **Fan** » 11-05-2012 01:46 PM

This is too ridiculous. I don't believe it.

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 11-05-2012 02:16 PM

Fan wrote: This is too ridiculous. I don't believe it.

You mean the part about the Sister?

Post by **Fan** » 11-05-2012 02:17 PM

Raggedyann wrote: You mean the part about the Sister?

The whole thing, how they tracked him down and verified stuff... give me a break. They are going to do this? No. There is something else going on here.

Raggedyann · Post by **Raggedyann** » 11-05-2012 03:15 PM

Fan wrote: The whole thing, how they tracked him down and verified stuff... give me a break. They are going to do this? No. There is something else going on here.

The Fifth Estate is a well respected investigative program. The lotto scammers have been charged with fraud, so where's the conspiracy here?