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Man sues Powerball lottery after being told his apparent $340m win was error
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A man who thought he had won a $340m Powerball jackpot is suing the lottery after the game’s administrators said their website only showed his numbers as the winning combination by mistake.
Washington DC resident John Cheeks purchased a Powerball lottery ticket at the center of the dispute on 6 January 2023.
Other defendants named in Cheeks’s lawsuit include the Multi-State Lottery Association and game contractor Taoti Enterprises.
At 12.09pm that day, the Taoti quality assurance team accidentally posted test Powerball numbers on the game’s live website rather than a development environment which mimicked the site but was not viewable to the public, according to Bailey.
Despite Taoti’s claims, Cheeks’s attorney Richard Evans told NBC Washington: “They have said that one of their contractors made a mistake.
Last November, the Iowa Lottery posted the wrong Powerball numbers, citing a “human reporting error”.
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