How the Montana Lottery misreported millions of dollars The Legislative Audit Division uncovered a slew of problems with the executive agency’s finances.
How the Montana Lottery misreported millions of dollars The Montana Lottery miscalculated its finances by $18.5 million over the last several years, according to a recent report from the state’s Legislative Audit Division. That doesn’t mean $18.5 million is missing, but that the agency overstated and understated its accounts by that amount, the report
State lottery ticket sales nearly double to over $100B State lotteries are bringing in more money than ever, but states are paying more in prize money and keeping slightly less of it themselves, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau analysis. State lottery ticket sales nationwide nearly doubled from $52.8 billion to $104.7 billion between fiscal