Friday, October 7, 2011

Former Clerk Pleads Guilty To Lottery Fraud

  • {Kentucky}...Thirty-eight year old Joanne Wiggins, a who worked as a store clerk at a Meijer Gas in Louisville, pleaded guilty Friday and agreed to serve five years in prison for lottery fraud. Wiggins and three other people were indicted this summer after undercover Kentucky Lottery Corp. security officers took winning scratch-off tickets to retailers and asked if the tickets were winners. The four were accused of telling the officers that the tickets were losers so they could cash them. Wiggins will be sentenced November 7th.