The New York State Lottery is one of the largest and oldest state lotteries in the US (only New Hampshire's lottery is older). It runs three jackpot, five daily, and about a dozen scratch-off games through 15,000 retailers and 14,000 online outlets. About a third of the lottery’s revenue, or $2 billion a year, goes to support New York State education. It also awards Leaders of Tomorrow scholarships to one eligible graduating senior from every public and private school in the state (provided they attend New York universities). The New York Lottery was established by the new state constitution passed in 1966.

Governor Releases Budget Proposal; Quick Draw Keno Regulations Relaxed
NEW YORK (December 16, 2008) – The New York Lottery's Quick Draw lottery game, derided as Crack Draw by gambling opponents, would see restrictions relaxed for................Subscribers

Balestriere Lanza PLLC Alleges That New York Lottery and Private Gaming Company Appropriated Trademark From Small Business
NEW YORK, New York, USA (November 21, 2008) -- According to Balestriere Lanza PLLC, the Gameologist Group LLC (Gameologist), a New Jersey based and minority-owned small business, filed a complaint in New Jersey Federal District Court, suing the New York Lottery (the Lottery) and Scientific Games, Inc. (Scientific Games), for infringing on its trademark...............Subscribers

Lottery Looks to VLTs to Sustain Revenue Growth
ALBANY, New York (November 10, 2008) - With lottery ticket sales growing slowly, New York Lottery is increasingly depending on video gaming machines at horse tracks to keep gambling revenue flowing into state coffers.............Subscribers

Paterson Administration Refuses To Release Report On Lottery Sale
ALBANY, New York (October 16, 2008) -- Taxpayers paid nearly $500,000 for an outside consultant to study whether New York should privatize its lottery, but the Paterson administration is reportedly refusing to release the report. The report was reportedly completed last summer by Rothschild, a global financial-services firm...................Subscribers

New State Panel to Study Privatizing Lottery and Other Public Assets
ALBANY, New York, USA (October 1, 2008) – Governor David A. Paterson’s administration reportedly said on Tuesday that it would set up a commission to explore ways to privatize public assets, including the lottery system..............Subscribers

Official Resists Calls To Boost Some Lottery Payouts
BUFFALO, New York (September 5, 2008) -- The New York Lottery director on Thursday is reported to have again resisted calls to boost prize winnings for Win 4, Daily Numbers and other online numbers games that are allegedly.................Subscribers

Hearing Set on Alleged Disparity in State Lottery System
BUFFALO, NY (August 28 2008) -- An Assembly committee wants to hear about how the disparity in the state’s lottery sales and winnings affects the poor in Buffalo, who are less likely to win when they play the lottery, based on the types of tickets they buy.................Subscribers

New York Lottery Unveils Biggest Scratch-Off, Costs $30 A Ticket
NEW YORK (August 29, 2008) -- New York State Lottery's newest jackpot is huge. It will be the largest instant jackpot in the history of the Lottery. After taxes, a Big Apple winner's earnings add up to..................Subscribers

New York State May Revisit Privatizing Lottery -Sources
NEW YORK, USA (August 13, 2008) - New York state may revisit a public-private partnership as a way of extracting more dollars from the state lottery, sources familiar with the discussions said on Wednesday..............Subscribers

New York Lottery Sales Surge 4% Year-on-Year
ALBANY, New York, USA (July 11, 2008) -- Buoyed by strong sales of high-priced scratch-off games and the growth of video lottery terminals (VLTs) at Yonkers Raceway, the New York Lottery has had a four (4%) percent increase in revenue this fiscal year.............Subscribers

Lottery Series Misses Key Facts on Players, Payouts
NEW YORK (June 28, 2008) -- The recent News series about the Lottery drew some overly simplistic conclusions based on what appear to be some preconceived old stereotypes about Lottery players..................Subscribers

The Sopranos - Actor Vella Threatens Legal Action After Lotto Ticket Mix-Up
NEW YORK, USA (June 17, 2008) -- Former ‘The Sopranos’ star Vinny Vella is threatening legal action against New York state lottery officials after they rejected what he believes is his $5 million (GBP2.5 million) winning ticket................Subscribers

Numbers Rackets Alive and Well in New York
NEW YORK, USA (June 10, 2008) -- Last month, eighteen (18) people were arrested when authorities busted a $200,000-a-week illegal lottery operation based on the Dominican Lottery, or "Los Numeros," as the Dominicans call it................Subscribers

New York Lottery Virtual Talent Search Yields Three New Draw Team Members
SCHENECTADY, New York (June 6, 2008) -- New York Lottery Icon Yolanda Vega today introduced three new additions to the Lottery draw team. The three new spokeswomen were selected from among the more than 1,000 resumes received from as far away as Michigan following the launch of the Lottery’s first-ever virtual talent search................Subscriptions

Lawsuit Claims Lottery Exaggerates the Likelihood of Winning
NEW YORK, USA (May 5, 2008) -- A lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Monday claims the New York State Division of Lottery is tricking people into playing its Take Five lottery game by exaggerating the likelihood of winning................Subscribers

New York Lottery Makes History Closing 40th Anniversary Year With Record $2.6 Billion In Earnings For Education
2007-08 Fiscal Year Marks Seventh Consecutive Year of Revenue Growth
SCHENECTADY, New York (April 30, 2008) -- Building upon seven consecutive years of growth, the New York Lottery today announced it achieved another record-setting year in fiscal year 2007-08 for its sole mission to earn revenue for education..................Subscribers

Traditional Lottery Game Sales Flat
ALBANY, New York (April 16, 2008) -- New York Lottery officials have reportedly said they brought in $2.6 billion for education spending in the last fiscal year..................Subscribers

New York Lottery Officials Closed Down Betting On Hotel Number 871
NEW YORK (March 13, 2008) -- State lottery officials closed down betting on 871 because too many New Yorkers were playing the number..................Subscribers

New York Lottery Launches Virtual Search For Draw Team Talent
Lottery Uses Cyber Search To Attract Statewide Pool of Available Candidates
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (March 5, 2008) - The New York Lottery today announced the launch of a virtual talent search to find a few new faces to join the Lottery’s popular drawn team. The cyber search is intended to help the Lottery attract a statewide pool of available talent...............Subscribers

Crunch Announce Details of Lottery Night at the Crunch
SYRACUSE, New York (February 11, 2008) - The Syracuse Crunch announced today that their Friday, February 15 game against Binghamton will be New York State Lottery Night at the Crunch............Subscribers

Italian-American Group Lodge Complaint About Lottery Ad
ALBANY, New York (February 4, 2008) -- The New York State Lottery has reportedly apologized to Italian-Americans after it aired a series of TV ads that featured Sopranos-like mob characters rapping................Subscribers

Privatization Would Broaden the Demographic of Lottery Customers
ALBANY, New York (January 19, 2008) – According to a report several Wall Street firms believe the New York Lottery has a broad untapped market of middle and upper income New Yorkers with discretionary cash.................Subscribers

Administration Says Revenues Would Increase if Wall Street Firms Take Over NY Lottery
ALBANY, New York (January 11, 2008) -- The Spitzer administration's plan of raising billions of dollars from the state Division of the Lottery could come from savvy Wall Street marketing of the Schenectady-based agency's scratch-off, numbers and jackpot games...................Subscribers

NY Governor May Lease Lottery
ALBANY, New York (January 9, 2008) -- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday proposed leasing the stream of money generated by the state lottery to raise billions of dollars for higher education,..............Subscribers

Lottery Film Could Hit the Jackpot
NEW YORK, USA (January 7, 2008) -- The director of the acclaimed spelling documentary Spellbound is trying his luck with a film about lottery winners..............Subscribers

Woman To Sue For Lottery Win
NEW YORK (October 22, 2007) -- A New York woman who said a lottery machine cut her winning ticket in half will ask a court to force New York Lottery officials to pay her..........Subscribers

Mayor Praises New York Lottery
ALBANY, New York (October 17, 2007) -- The New York Lottery celebrated its 40th anniversary at its Schenectady headquarters with city officials on hand..........Subscribers

New York Lottery Salutes Its Hometown Winners And Hometown MLB Teams
SCHENECTADY, New York (September 21, 2007) -- The New York Lottery today awarded $24 Million in prize checks to seven hometown Lottery winners during a special check presentation.............Subscribers

Governor Names New Lottery Director
ALBANY, New York, USA (September 18, 2007) -- Governor Eliot Spitzer announced former New York Times executive Gordon Medenica as director of the State Lottery.............Subscribers

The New York Lottery Announces Appointment of New Acting Director
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (August 10, 2007) -- The New York Lottery today announced Deputy Director of the New York Lottery Gardner Gurney has been appointed to serve as Acting New York Lottery Director...................Read the full story at: Vol.40 No.8

Lottery Issues Checklist to Ensure Prompt, Accurate Award of Cash Prizes
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (July 25, 2007) -- The New York Lottery has released a winners’ checklist to ensure the..........Read the full story at: Vol.40 No.5

New York Lottery Honored With Certificate of Achievement in Financial Reporting
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (March 2007) -- The New York Lottery has been awarded the prestigious Certificate in Achievement in Financial Reporting for its comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) for the year ending March 31, 2006............Read the full story at: Vol.38 No.12

New York Lottery Extends GTECH’s Online/Instants System Contract for an Additional Three Years
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, USA (March 1, 2007) -- GTECH Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lottomatica S.p.A., announced that it has signed a three- year contract extension to continue providing lottery products and services to the New York Lottery through February 28, 2010...........Read the full story at: Vol.38 No.10

Lottery Offers College Scholarships
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (January 30, 2007) -- The state Division of the Lottery has sent out nomination packets for its Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship to more than 1,750 schools statewide..........Subscribers

Governor To Review Lottery Operations Following Newspaper Revelations
NEW YORK, USA (January 29, 2007) – Governor Eliot Spitzer today pledged to review the New York Lottery operations in response to an ongoing series published that questioned the lottery’s accounting methods........Subscribers

Raffles To Riches...There's Never Been Anything Like It
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (January 17, 2007) -- “New York has never seen anything like this before,” New York Lottery Director Robert J. McLaughlin said as he unveiled the Lottery’s new Raffle to Riches game designed to produce 12 new Lottery millionaires in just one drawing. “This new limited-time game works like a 50/50 raffle,” .........Subscribers

The New York Lottery Rings In The New Year with Exciting New Ways to Win, Improved Odds and a Fresh Focus to Celebrate 40th Birthday!
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (December 28, 2006) -- The New York Lottery celebrates 40 years of success in 2007 with a host of exciting new ways for New Yorkers to win big! New York Lottery Director Robert J. McLaughlin announced the New York Lottery’s plans for the coming year along with eight new millionaires............................Subscribers

New York Lottery Officials Announced 2006's 100th Lottery Millionaire
NEW YORK, USA (November 24, 2006) -- A Bronx man helped the New York Lottery set a new milestone on Friday, when lottery officials announced he was the state's newest millionaire - courtesy of his turning in a winning LOTTO ticket worth $20 million............................Subscribers

Robert J. Mclaughlin Named Director of The New York Lottery
NEW YORK, USA (November 3, 2006) --Robert J. McLaughlin of Guilderland, New York was named today as Director of the State Division of the Lottery. As Deputy Director and General Counsel at the New York Lottery since May of 2004.............................Read the full story at: Vol.37 No.6

Lottery Director Joins New York Daily News as Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Corporate Communications
NEW YORK, USA (October 27, 2006) -- Nancy Palumbo is joining the New York Daily News as senior vice president of strategic marketing and corporate communications...........................Subscribers

New York Lottery Adds $5 Million Ticket
NEW YORK (October 26, 2006) -- After announcing its 91st millionaire in 2006, the New York Lottery announced that it will add a $5 million Extravaganza According to the sourcesr the new scratch-off ticket offers players three different prize levels of $5 million, $2 million and $1 million, with over a half billion in prizes....................................Subscribers

New York Lottery Shines at Annual NASPL Conference
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (October 24, 2006) -- The New York Lottery was recently awarded top honors, receiving the prestigious Batchy and Hickey Awards at the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) Annual Meeting held in Chicago.................................Subscribers

New York Lottery to Become Presenting Sponsor of Travers Stakes
NEW YORK, USA (July 18, 2006) -- Officials of the New York Lottery and New York Racing Association announced that the New York Lottery will become the presenting sponsor of the 2006 Travers Stakes ............................Subscribers

Response to VLT Venue Surpasses Expectations
NEW YORK, USA (July 10, 2006) -- State Senator Thomas Libous and other officials at Tioga Downs handed out hundreds of scratch-off New York Lottery tickets to consumers who attended the VLT venue’s ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning..........................Subscribers

Baseball Fan Scores on Subway Series Scratch-Off and Record Number of Millioniares Claim in One Day!
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (June 30, 2006) -- Millionaires have been coming forward in droves this year! The New York Lottery has already awarded more than..............................Subscribers

Convenience Store Clerk Charged Over Attempted Lottery Scam
NEW YORK, USA (June 25, 2006) --A man who bought a Lotto ticket worth $1 million at a Huntington Station store was almost swindled out of his winnings by the clerk..........................Subscribers

New York Lottery Numbers Game Sets Record
SCHENECTADY, New York (June 19, 2006) -- New York Lottery Daily Numbers players had a major pay day last week winning more than $8.3 million playing...........................Read the full story at: Vol.35 No.12

New York Lottery Celebrates 30th Birthday of the Scratch-Off Ticket $3,000,000
 SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (June 2, 2006) -- New York Lottery Director Nancy A. Palumbo today announced the launch of $3,000,000 Jubilee, an Instant scratch-off ticket that will produce an amazing thirty-five new millionaires............................Read the full story at: Vol.35 No.10

New York Lottery Offers Chance of a Lifetime to One Lucky New York Baseball Fan
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (May 15, 2006) -- The New York Lottery, already the home of “a dollar and a dream”, is making Shea Stadium some lucky New York baseball fan’s “field of dreams”.........................Subscribers

State of New York and Major League Baseball Team Up To .....
NEW YORK, USA (May 2, 2006) -- For the first time in history, hundreds of average New Yorker's will line up to have a chance to win the opportunity to throw out the ceremonial ....................................Subscribers

America's Favorite Pastime Just Got Even Better
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (April 4, 2006) -- The New York Lottery hit a home run today when they unveiled a new Subway Series Instant game ticket featuring the New York Yankees and the New York Mets...............................Read the full story at: Vol.35 No.1

Lottery Lets New Yorkers Play Ball for Cash
ALBANY, New York, USA (April 3, 2006) – The New York Lottery will reportedly unveil its planned Subway Series tickets tomorrow, a day after the Yanks and Mets start the season................................Subscribers

New Yorkers Have An Itch for Scratch-Off Tickets
NEW YORK, USA (February 28, 2006) – Despite the fact that multi-state lottery jackpots sometimes reach staggering amounts, some New York Lottery retailers cannot keep the lower prize money instant tickets in their stores. .................................Subscribers

New York Lottery Publication Firm Barred from Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, USA (February 28, 2006) -- A New York lottery publication firm and its principals have been barred from any further business activity in Wisconsin related to................................Subscribers

The New York Lottery Announces New Instant Scratch-Off Ticket Suppliers
SCHENECTADY, New York (February 10, 2006) – New York Lottery Director Nancy A. Palumbo today announced that Scientific Games Corporation has been selected .............................Read the full story at: Vol.34 No.7

Pollard Banknote Named Secondary Supplier of New York Lottery’s Instant Tickets
YPSILANTI, MI (February 9, 2006) -- Pollard Banknote Limited Partnership (“Pollard Banknote”) has been named secondary supplier to the New York Lottery................................Subscribers

The New York Lottery’s Win For Life Games Keep Growing and Growing
SCHENECTADY, New York, USA (January 26, 2006) -- New York Lottery Director Nancy Palumbo has announced the launch of the biggest Instant game ever, with a.............................Subscribers