Three Texas men bought millions of lottery tickets and got them approved with "counterfeit codes" to win the state's $95 million jackpot in "one of the most significant lottery rigging cases in U.S. history," a lawsuit alleged.
Earlier this month, Jerry Reed filed a lawsuit against multiple parties, including Rook TX, Lottery.com and Lottery.com co-founders Lawrence Anthony DiMatteo III, Ryan Dickinson and Matthew Clemson, for allegedly rigging a Lotto Texas drawing in April 2023, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.
The three Lottery.com co-founders worked with foreign and domestic companies and individuals to print and buy 25.8 million Lotto Texas tickets that used "custom-designed software, loaded onto smartphones, to generate a system of counterfeit QR codes that tricked the state-approved Texas Lottery terminals into recognizing the codes as if they had been generated by the Texas Lottery Commission's authorized mobile app," the lawsuit alleged. The group had one winning ticket that won them $95 million.
Reed went on to win $7.5 million in a Lotto Texas drawing on May 17, 2023, but his lawsuit alleged he would have walked away with a $102.5 million jackpot if the men never rigged the drawing. Reed said in the lawsuit the defendants "hold money" that "belongs" to him.
He is seeking $95 million in damages.
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