25-Oct-06. 214 lottery ‘insiders’ won big bucks. Globe and Mail, A1.

The CBC television program The Fifth Estate alleges that more than two-thirds of 214 lottery “insiders” who won prizes of $50,000 or more in Ontario since 1999 may have involved the deception of a customer who bought the ticket. A statistical analysis of the number of insider wins by University of Toronto professor Jeffrey Rosenthal concluded that few than 60 insiders, such as ticket retailers or clerks, should have won major prizes during the period that was investigated. The Ontario Lottery Corporation is disputing the conclusions of the program. They have, however, been embroiled in a lengthy legal dispute with an Ontario senior citizen over this same issue.