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Senator Hall urges abolishing Texas Lottery Commission amid allegations of systemic failures and courier fraud
Summary
Senator Sandra Hall delivered an extended layout alleging the Texas Lottery Commission changed rules to enable lottery courier services and a major 2023 jackpot scheme; the committee heard invited witnesses and public testimony and left Senate Bill 1988 pending.
Senator Sandra Hall gave an extended presentation alleging longstanding mismanagement and rule changes at the Texas Lottery Commission that she said enabled large‑scale wrongdoing by courier services and third parties.
Hall described a sequence of administrative rule changes dating from about 2014 through 2022 that, she said, opened avenues for electronic play slips, third‑party order entry and round‑the‑clock sales by courier services. Hall said those changes allowed courier operators to coordinate purchases covering nearly all number combinations in a lotto drawing and that the commission failed to investigate the scale of those operations. “This organized crime scandal that has been operating behind the shield of being a Texas state…
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