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2009 — Texas Lottery: A former Texas lottery worker was arrested while…

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A former Texas lottery worker was arrested while training for a new job and charged with illegally possessing personal information on 140 lottery winners and employees, including their names and Social Security numbers. The man was still working for the Lottery Commission in 2007 when he allegedly took the information, which was discovered last year on a state computer at the Comptroller of Public Accounts where he

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