Gaming the system: Michigan Lottery cracks down on retailers who cheat customers
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — When a customer brought a Keno ticket to Nick’s Party Stop in Clinton Township, retailer Don Kallo ran the ticket through his lottery terminal, declared it a loser and tore it in half.
Kallo, the spouse of store operator Linda Kallo, then took the torn ticket — a $2,517 winner — to the Michigan Lottery Bureau to redeem it.
Suspicious lottery officials investigated and learned Kallo hadn’t purchased the ticket, as he claimed, records show.
“It was determined the ticket had been purchased by a customer who had been told by Mr. Kallo the ticket was not a winner and ripped the ticket,” according to lottery records obtained by the Free Press under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act.
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