Hot Lotto

In 2010, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket was sold at a gas station
in Des Moines, Iowa. At first, no one showed up to claim the prize.
And then, a series of lawyers tried to claim the money on behalf of
a client they would not name. Things got stranger, and eventually
investigators uncovered what has been called the biggest lottery
fraud in U.S. history. This episode was first published in
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