Texas Scorecard by Travis Morgan July 2, 2025
The Texas Business Court is a newly formed, specialized trial court.A case involving a lottery winner who claims his jackpot should have been $95 million higher due to a rigging scandal is being heard in the new Texas Business Court, after the court asserted jurisdiction.
Jerry Reed won a $7.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot in May 2023—just one month after Rook TX—a New Jersey-based company—claimed a $95 million jackpot.
Reed alleges that Rook GP—the general partner of the limited partnership Rook TX—misrepresented Rook TX’s date of formation to the state of Texas when it claimed the $95 million jackpot.
He asserts that Rook GP “represented that Rook TX was formed on March 1, 2023, and received the winning lottery ticket on April 21, 2023, but Rook TX was not actually formed until June 15, 2023—after the April 2023 lottery drawing.”
Reed claims Rook TX violated Sections 466.307 and 466.308 of the Government Code, which make it a crime to “intentionally or knowingly influence or attempt to influence the selection of the winner of a lottery game” or to claim, or aid another in claiming, “a lottery prize or a share of a lottery prize by means of fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”
According to Reed’s allegations, Rook TX was created “to hide the identity of the defendant-conspirators who rigged the lottery.”
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-business-court-takes-up-95-million-lottery-rigging-lawsuit/
