Frank Farricker the acting president and chairman of the board of the Connecticut Lottery Corp. resigned last week amidst a growing scandal over one of the lottery’s instant games, the 5 Card Cash game.
Farricker recently told lawmakers that officials “put revenues over security issues,” when they discovered that it was possible for retailers to manipulate tickets on computer screens and that it was possible to determine winners by looking at the backs of tickets.
The Department of Consumer Protection determined that the lottery learned of the problem in January 2015 and waited seven months to alert the department.
Farricker had been serving as acting head of the lottery since the previous president, Anne Noble, resigned in September when the scandal first started to unfold.
