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The charge: In November 2004 a former security officer of the Hoosier Lottery, William C. Foreman, 59, was arrested and charged with disclosing confidential lottery information, a Class A felony, after prosecutors alleged he had told two men — Daniel Foltz, 31, and Chad Adkins, 28, themselves charged with felony theft — that a $1 million winning ticket in the $20 scratch-off game $2,000,000 Bonus Spectacular had been sent to a store in Cross Plains, in Ripley County, where one of them bought the store's entire stock of the game, about $700 worth of tickets, and the two redeemed the prize, $50,000 a year for twenty years, receiving $25,000 each before the Lottery held payment. The account carried nationally at the time — the Associated Press report as republished by Lottery Post on November 10, 2004, from Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi's statements and Hoosier Lottery Director Jack Ross's — is the carrier for what follows, and its Mishawaka sentence is the reason this case stands in this section at all.
Mishawaka's ticket: Five tickets in the compromised game would have won $1 million prizes, Ross said. Three were still in the Lottery's warehouse and were destroyed with all unsold tickets for the game. The fifth — the one Foltz and Adkins redeemed — is the Cross Plains ticket above. And one, in the report's exact words, “was sold to a legitimate winner who lives in Mishawaka.” That is the whole of Mishawaka's part: a resident of this city bought, in the ordinary way, one of the five $1 million tickets in a game whose security had been breached from inside the Lottery itself, and won legitimately. The record reached names neither the winner nor the Mishawaka store that sold the ticket, gives no claim date and no payment form beyond the game's own terms — $1 million as $50,000 a year for twenty years, the terms the report states for the redeemed twin of this ticket — and this fragment prints the win at exactly that strength: amount, game and city of residence documented; name, store and claim unpublished in any source reached. Ross said new tickets were printed, including three new million-dollar winners, and that the winners of the five valid tickets would be entered in a drawing for an additional $1 million; whether the Mishawaka winner's ticket was among those treated as valid for that drawing is not stated in the record reached. The disposition of the criminal charges against Foreman, Foltz and Adkins is likewise not carried in the sources reached for this section and is not claimed here; the settling source is the Marion County court record.
Why it stands whole: This is Mishawaka's only documented lottery-fraud case, and the fraud was not the city's — it was done to the game the city played, by the game's own security staff, and discovered by the game's own investigation. It also fixes the claimant-form question this section is required to ask in its sharpest form: Indiana winners are public record, jackpots are routinely claimed by named individuals and, elsewhere in the state record, by trusts — but the one Mishawaka resident known to have won $1 million on a scratch-off stands in the record with no name at all, because the only story that ever mentioned the win was a story about a crime.
Sources:
- Associated Press report (November 10, 2004), as republished by Lottery Post, “Ex-lottery official charged in $1 million payout scam” — Foreman, Foltz and Adkins and the charges; the $2,000,000 Bonus Spectacular game; the five $1 million tickets, their dispositions as quoted, including the ticket “sold to a legitimate winner who lives in Mishawaka”; the $50,000-a-year-for-twenty-years terms; Director Jack Ross and Prosecutor Carl Brizzi named.