Checks bounced

[inkjunkie]

Eighty-five Illinois lottery winners discovered they were not as lucky as they thought.
Their checks, worth $159,000 combined, did not clear the bank.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the Illinois lottery offered the winners a formal apology after their bank failed to authorize payment to several scratch-off winners.
Lottery spokesman, Mike Lang blamed the snafu on a computer oversight due to short-staffing during the holidays.
Lottery officials are working to make good on the checks and offered to cover any bank fees incurred from the incident. The lottery is sending the affected customers a free scratch off ticket as part of the apology, according to the Tribune.

 

[TXDart]

Another reason not count your chickens till they hatch....And a free lottery ticket what are the odds of winning and then winning again!!!

 

[SwiftFury]

The free ticket is "compensation" in legal jargon... If they try to sue the defence will be.."They were already compensated" I recall that from Business Law 101.

 

[cannucky]

Writing bad checks is also fraud in business 101 ,a fraud totally that much is federal with several years worth of mandatory minimum sentencing in Legal 101 , they might be better off prosecuting privately then filing for" Victims of Crime" compensation on top of restitution

 

[krazykuda]

So now you have to beat the other Lotto winners to the bank and cash your check before the money runs out...