he was a florida lottery winner and they say i siphoned off his money and killed him and i didn't dot. i'm not going to be a part of that. they're saying that i shot him twice in the chest and that he died and that i buried him, and that i hid his death. >> moore says she's anything but a cold-blooded killer. >> i'm like a big kid. i like disney and mickey mouse and tinkerbell and stuff. i would love a world where i lived at walt disney world all day. >> but for the past eight months moore has been living in a very different world, the jail's female confinement unit where she is held in her cell away from other inmates, due in part to the intense media coverage of her case. >> because she's in the news and because of her charges. if you put her back in a pod you don't know how another inmate is going to react to what she is allegedly accused of. so for her own safety, it's better that she's back here. >> moore has collected some of the many newspaper reports on her case. >> "woman charged in millionaire's murder, pleads not guilty." i used to cry, opening these up. i don't any more.

lottery? >> if only we knew. a florida man who says you can win 2. >> i have a method and it works. >> the world's first and only seven-time lottery grand prize winner. >> i drive a jaguar and ride a harley. we live in a big, fancy house. we go on cruises all the time. we are enjoying it. >> his first big hit was $10,000, 18 years ago. >> when i won my fourth, that was when i knew. -- a whopping $840,000. >> that was when people started saying, wait a minute. nobody can be that lucky. >> he says it is strategy that helped him win and he is sharing his secrets and a new book. tip no. 1, set a budget. >> do not spend dose -- grocery money or rent money. figure out what you can afford. >> even though the florida lottery tells most winners come from quick fix, never buy them. >> have you ever won? >> pit one lottery game and stick with it. >> take your budget and/10. if it is $100, by 10 at $10 tickets. buy them in a row of the same game. >> play your same numbers every time. >> he says is tips apply to instant games and numbe

lottery and winning big? >> if you only knew the cigarettes. we are introduced to a florida man who has won a lottery jackpots seven times and wants to show you how to win, too. >> i have a method and it works. >> richard lustig is the first and only seven time grand prize winner. >> we go on cruises all the time. we're enjoying it. >> the first big hit, a $10,000. that was 18 years ago. >> and i won my second and third. on the fourth, that is when i knew. when i won no. 5 -- >> that is when people started saying, wait a minute. nobody can be that lucky. >> he says in this strategy, not luck that helps him win and he is sharing his secrets in a new book. set a budget. >> do not spend rimini. do not spend rent money. figure out what you can afford. >> even though the florida lottery says most winners come from quick picks, he said never buy them. >> the audience will say we need to buy them. have you ever won? >> number three. pick one lottery game and stick with it. >> take your budget and/10. if it is $100, you will buy 10 $10 tickets but by them in a row on the same game.

figure out what you can afford. >> number, two even though the florida lottery tells us most winnersing from quick picks, richard says never buy them. >> i know the audience is going to say, what do you mean? i always buy them. have you ever won? >> number three, pick one lottery game and stick with it. >> pick your budget, divide it by 10. so if it's $1 hundred, buy 10 $10 tickets, but buy 10 in a row of the same game. >> number four, play your same numbers every time. >> and that is in my book. >> he says his tips apply to instant games and numbers games. i thought why not give it a shot? so, my budget is $10. i'm going put richard's theory to the test. holiday cash, please. 10 it is. oh, i won $5, ok. $4. another $5. the last one, here we go, four out of my 10 tickets were winners. total net gain, $20. >> there you are. >> so here's my original investment, and here's my take-home prize. going to buy lunch. >> ok. that was liz bruiner reporting. richard's most recent win was in august. he won $98,000. and if you plan to try out those new secrets and buy a mega millions ticket, you

a couple has sued the florida lottery after a winning scratch off was found invalid because of a misprint they'd won $500,000. what are the chances they get money here? >> you know what? the litry nee lottery needs to corporation out there were to produce a defective product like that and give you something that doesn't turn out -- now you think you got a winning lottery ticket, kind of like you buy a blender you think you're going to make margheritas. what if the blender doesn't function, sorry, we messed up. give me a new blender or pay for this one. you're selling a commodity, $1 in a dream. these people thought they got the dream, so legally speaking i think they've got a pretty strong case because they're not at fault, it's the doctrine of clean hands. they didn't do anything wrong. it's not like they participated in trying to make a misprint. >> if they sue they spend that much in legal fees to get the money. >> if the lottery commission is found to be at fault then they can ask for their attorneys' fees as well. absolutely. >> seems like there should be a compromi compromise, just

since most lotteries in this country began in 1970s, three states put more than $20 billion into education. new york, california and florida. and with the nation's biggest lottery, new york, funding 15% of its school budget last year alone. now, it's important to point out that while many states advertise, i mean really advertise, as part of their logos that the lottery funds education, a lot of states have cut education budgets even as lottery proceeds have risen and funding education isn't always what it seems. today we ran the numbers from florida where all lottery proceeds go to education and about 78% of money goes to college scholarships and school construction bonds. not k-12 and the public schools that do get funds get them only if they're a-rated. so schools in wealthy areas with good test scores get the most money. the director of the lottery, and paul hickey co-founder of research. both out front tonight with two very different and important takes on this. gary, i want to start with you. this is massive. i mean, this is something that probably put a lot of people in a good mood today. just the dream and hope. yo

shirley crest and i won $56 million in the florida lottery. >> life is good for some lottery winners,nd don't know who to trust. people come out of the woodwork. >> coming into this kind of money is such a big change, there are businesses built around helping people adjust. susan bradley founded the sudden money institute. >> the possibilities with big wins are so extreme that it really does alter status quo, almost permanently. it takes about five years to get used to this kind of change in a person's life. >> bradley tells winners, the first thing to do is safeguard the ticket and don't tell many people you've won. before even claiming jackpot, she advises to have a team in place, including a financial adviser specializing in big money and a lawyer. she finds it's the personal changes, not managing the money, that prove the most challenging. >> the real thing is how all your relationships change, how you change, how you see the world, how the world sees you. >> of course, there's taxes. if you took a lump sum, most people do. that would be $389. take out taxes in new york city, for

florida. >> thanks, mark. looking forward to it. >>> the blood of taxpayers in michigan is boiling after a lottery winner gets caught using food stamps to pay for groceries. amanda says she needs her $200 a month public assistance because she's not working. she said after buying a house and a car with her winnings, there wasn't enough to pay her bills. >> no. i won a million. but i won a million. then after the lump sum, it was $700,000. and after taxes, it was over half. >> reporter: michigan lawmakers are working on a bill that would keep lottery winners from getting state assistance. >> i think she needs a financial planner. that might be what she needs. >>> still to come tonight on wjz eyewitness news.

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lottery pool? beware! the waters might be more treacherous than you think. >> once a pool wins, money changes a situation, and money changes everything. >> reporter: florida ne has seen so many pool problems, his firm lists "assisting in lottery disputes" as an area of expertise. yes, joining forces and buying more tickets can increase your othds of winning. and it's beats the odds but what happens if you do. in new jersey this month, a judge ruled a construction worker cheated his five co-workers out of their share of $39 million mega million jackpot. to avoid a pool peril, lawyers advise drafting something like a poll pre-nup. >> it should be done a certain specific way with identified members of the pool, identified rules and a game plan of what would happen if you should win. >> reporter: some tips? make clear what happens if someone skips a week. make copies of the tickets. make a list with everyone's name and how much they contributed. sounds like a buzz kill, but pools are not all poison. >> i was in shock. in los angeles, a group of 16 school workers in a pool won, not once, but twice in less than a year. >> it's exciting. a shock. >> reporter: the

now when jeff talks about lottery fraud, note he didn't say as we might have a number of years back, south florida or southern california, now it's costa rica, jamaica, the dominican republic, and farther afield, spain, and other parts of the world. now, in part because we have seen and assistant attorney general brewer's remarks highlighted this as well, as we have seen the globalization of crime in general, we've seen the globalization of fraud including the globalization of techniques. when we first started to compare notes with our law enforcement colleagues going back four, five years ago in australia, canada, the united kingdom, and even nigeria, we started to find that we were talking about the same kinds of scams with the same kinds of techniques targeted against the same kinds, in many instances of senior populations often as well by the same groups of people. so part of what we sought to do, and i think it's fair to say that mike's office, fraud section, multiple u.s. attorneys have focused on this particularly. what we're trying to do is take our ability to respond to these types of fra

most of money tends to go to education and in the states that have the biggest lotteries over time, california, new york, floridation last year in new york state came from the lottery. >> if they're going to give out to the winner or winners $640 million, what i hear you saying is they're taking in $1 billion and 200 million, twice as much as they distribute. >> they're taking in a lot more money and it does add up over time. i had the state and provincial lotteries. $18 bill one was what the states netted and that's a lot of money. compare it to new york state alone which today passed a $133 billion budget and it doesn't look like a lot of money, but when you look at the gap, given the fiscal crisis in this country. the center for budget proi orit says the gap is $49 billion and that's essentially the deficit for states around the country, when you compare 18 billion in profits to the states from the lottery about $49 billion gap and it actually does look like a lot of money. so there are a lot of interesting ways to crunch this and we'll have a lottery winner tonight who won $122 million and you know who i hav

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lottery pool? beware. the waters might be more treacherous than you think. >> once a pool wins, money changes a situation. money changes people. it changes everything. >> reporter: florida many pool problems, his firm lists assisting in lottery disputes as an area of expertise. yes, joining forces in buying more tickets can increase your odds of winning. the problem is, it's beating the odds, but what happens if you do. in new jersey this month, a jury ruled a construction worker cheated his five co-workers out of their share of a $39 million jackpot. to avoid this pool peril, lawyers advise drafting something like a pool prenup. >> it should be done a certain specific way with identified members of the pool, with identified rules and a game plan of what would happen if you should win. >> reporter: some tips? make clear what happens if someone skips a week. make copies of the tickets and make a list with everyone's name and how much they contributed. sounds like a buzz kill, but pools are not all poison. in los angeles, a group of 16 school workers in a pool won not once, but twice in less than a year. >> it's exciting. >> reporter: they each pocketed more than $700,000

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florida and they don't have the internet. as the pope meets with castro, christiane amanpour slips out to find the real havana. >>> good evening. i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin with the lottery that seems to have everybody talking. the single biggest jackpot ever. and just about 48 hours from now, someone, somewhere, could be a half billion dollars richer. millions of people in 42 states have purchased what they hope to be winning tickets. we fake a hard look tonight at winners and losers. >> be the lucky one. >> reporter: they are buying in los angeles, on manhattan island, in philly, cleveland, in tulsa, oklahoma. some on a whim and some with a plan. all with the hope and the dream, and maybe deep down the need to win. >> $10. >> reporter: and whoever does win, it will be in a way that's never happened before. last night, when the balls popped out for the midweek drawing and known had the numbers for the jackpot, it changed the game sizewise. not only was the jackpot still out there, but it grew, hugely. it grew from this to this. wow that is a record. and the next draug day is friday, just about 48 hours from now. >> the winning ticket. >> that is why they are lining up e

florida's one of eight states that don't take part in the mega millions lottery. but in 42 states, it's a day for big dreams. >> a new house for my family and my kids and my grandparents. >> a lot of people would benefit. >> a lot of people would be happy. >> our mary snow tracking lotto mania in new york city. mary, what's it like there? >> reporter: well, john, so many dreams of early retirement and people pondering the what-ifs. there's been a steady stream inside this 7-eleven on west 42nd street here in manhattan. and you know, this store alone has sold nearly 8,000 tickets. you compare that to an ordinary day when they sell about 800. it just gives you a sense at just how many people are shrugging off the long odds to buy tickets. and in new york state, we just got an update from lottery officials in the state. and they're reporting sales of $4 million an hour. and they expect to that to keep up. >> everyone thinks they have the one winning ticket. they're going to win the prize all by themselves. the odds against an actual single winner, right? >> reporter:

florida. >> thanks, mark. looking forward to it. >>> the blood of taxpayers in michigan is boiling after a lottery winner gets caught using food stampsfor groceries. amanda says she needs her $200 a month public assistance because she's not working. she said after buying a house and a car with her winnings, there wasn't enough to pay her bills. >> no. i won a million. but i won a million. then after the lump sum, it was $700,000. and after taxes, it was over half. >> reporter: michigan lawmakers are working on a bill that would keep lottery winners from getting state assistance. >> i think she needs a financial planner. that might be what she needs. >>> still to come tonight on wjz eyewitness news. >>> showdown between police and the county executive. i'm mike hellgren, in anne arundel county. will the new pressure being put on county executive john leopold cause him to ,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,, >>> coming up right now on wjz eyewitness news at 6:00. no confidence in their leaders' strong messages. sending to their bosses and the key piece of evidence opponents want to get their hands on. >>> as friends remember an 8th grader killed in an acc

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lottery officials say there are other winning tickets so that lucky marylander will have to unfortunately flit that $640 million jackpot. >> that will be hard. >>> today, civil rights leaders host a rally in sanford, florida, for trayvon martin. the 17-year-old was killed by neighborhood watch captain george zimmerman. reverend al sharpton and reverend jesse jackson expected at today's rally. >>> mitt romney and rick santorum making their final push before tuesday's primary in wisconsin. it could determine if santorum stays in the race. romney leads santorum by 7%. >>> d.c. is one step closer to having medical marijuana available for patients. six companies can register for permits to grow plants. news 4 i-team reporter has followed this for months and has the story. >> reporter: it's a controversial plan sparking plenty of passion and medical marijuana is coming to d.c. >> i think it's fair for the people who applied for it. fair to the community and certainly one step closer to meeting the compassion of the population. >> reporter: only six organizations received a license to grow 95 plants at a time. including hollywood's montel williams. he and a group of investors plan to set up shop on chapel road.

florida. in a few hours the parents of trayvon martin will attend a vigil with his former football team. more on this after our top stories -- >>> more than one win e of the biggest mega millions lottery jackpot of. winning tickets were actually sold in maryland, kansas and illinois. the winners will split $656 million. we don't know who the new millionaires are yet but we know her numbers. 2-4-23-38-46 and the mega ball number, 23. >>> the sister of the world's most famous polar bear is making her public debut. meet anouri, almost three months old. cute and cuddly. wandered out into a small outdoor enclosure at a german zoo for the first time this week. and sharing a father with nut. he is the cub, sorry. it's newt. he's the cub that became an internet star after he was abandoned by his mother and raiseed by zookeeper. >>> a cinderella moment for some new york teens who never thought they'd be able to afford to go to the prom. project cinderella is giving gowning and accessories to the girls whose families are recovering from last august's record floods. project cinderella is sponsored by the new york disaster relief fund. >>> and a united states marine receives one of the military's

when jeff talks about lottery fraud, he did not say south florida or southern california.ow, it is costa rica. jamaica. the dominican republic. for their -- furterh places like spain. we have seen the globalization of crime in general and faud including the globalization of techniques. when we first aired a to compare notes with our law enforcement colleagues going back for five years ago, in australia, canada, the united kingdom, and even nigeria, we started to find that we were talking about the same kinds of scams with the same techniques targeted against the same kinds of senior populations often by the same groups of people. part of what we saw to do, and i think it is fair to say that has focused on this particularly. what we are trying to do is take our ability to respond to these fraud to the next level. where we share information with each other about who are the main players behind these scams. where they wanting them from? where they getting their lead the list? how are the recruiting? how do they organized? where they moving their money? war and more -- more an

lottery officials say two other winning tickets sold in illinois and kansas so that lucky marylander will, unfortunately, have to split the $640 million jackpot. >> tough break. >>> protesters gather in sanford, florida, to demand the arrest of george zimmerman. the neighborhood watch captain claimed he shot and killed trayvon martin, 17, in self-defense. martin was not armed. many believe the shooting was racially motivated. >>> mitt romney and rick santorum making their final push before tuesday's primary in wisconsin. many say it could determine if santorum stays in the race. a recent poll shows romney leads santorum by 7%. >>> residents in d.c., one step closer able to get medical marijuana. six companies can grow plants for patients. tisha thompson has followed this debate for months and she has the story. >> reporter: it's a controversial plan sparking plenty of passion, and medical marijuana is coming to d.c. >> i think it's fair to the people who applied for it, it's fair to the community, and certainly it's one step closer to meeting the compassionate needs of our population. >> reporter: the director, mohammed actor, say six organizations received a permit to grow 95 plants at a time, inclu

florida or hawaii. so what do you do? send some money to friends in states where it is played. this is a record jackpot. lottery officials say this is the biggest ever. you want proof? the last time we saw jackpots anywhere coming close, back in 2007, 2009, even last year, but none come close to $540 million. you know what i'm seeing as people funnel through here and buy their breakfast and lottery tickets? a lot of people are buying lottery tickets and they never played before. they say i got that lotto fever, i'm buying in today. alina? >> all right. alison kosik, thank you very much. we'll check in with you all morning long. >> lots of tickets still to be sold. you don't need to live in new york to know about this lottery institution. have a listen. >> good evening, everyone, for the new york lottery, i'm yolanda vega. >> you bet, yolanda vega will join us to talk about not only this record breaker but the last time she was in on calling the numbers for the record breaker. what's the secret? >> i just met her this morning. it was like the most exciting part of my morning. >>> incredible video. look at this a