An Iowa lottery worker who illegally played the lottery won a multimillion-dollar jackpot in 2010 then asked others to help him claim it, authorities have said. Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51, of Norwalk, Iowa, has been charged with two felony counts of fraud. Authorities had been trying to identify the winner of the $14.3 million Hot Lotto ticket since a New York lawyer tried to claim the prize shortly before the one-year deadline in 2011. Tipton, who is the director of information security for the Multi-State Lottery Association, is being held at the Polk County Jail on a $10,000 cash-only bond.
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Eddie Tipton was the director of information security for the lottery
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After winning the lottery a trust was set up to collect the winnings
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New York lawyer Crawford Shaw had tried to claim the prize
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