Man Convicted Of Rigging Lotto Gets Early Release

The Iowa Board of Parole has agreed to an early release for the man convicted of rigging the Hot Lotto. Eddie Tipton was serving 25 years on a charge of ongoing criminal conduct. Tipton was the information security director for the Multi-State Lottery Association and admitted he wrote a program where he could predict the winning numbers for a jackpot. He was caught when an anonymous trust tried to cash in a 14-million-dollar winning ticket in 2010.