Lottery scandal prosecutor seeks to subpoena Texas attorneys

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Lottery scandal prosecutor seeks to subpoena Texas attorneys

David Pitt, Associated Press

Updated 3:37 pm, Wednesday, August 24, 2016


DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa prosecutor wants a judge to issue subpoenas for telephone and bank records of two Texas attorneys who he believes are connected to a former lottery computer security administrator who fixed lottery games in several states.

Assistant Iowa Attorney General Rob Sand filed documents Tuesday in the cases of Eddie Tipton and his brother Tommy Tipton, both of whom are charged with conspiring to rig and collect about $2 million in winnings from lottery games in Colorado, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Sand is seeking subpoenas for J. Thad Whisenant, a Houston area family practice lawyer, and Luis Vallejo, a criminal defense attorney in La Grange, Texas.

Sand said that immediately after investigators attempted to interview Whisenant, he called Vallejo, who also shows up in Tommy Tipton's phone records. Vallejo "appears to have been financially involved" with Whisenant and Tommy Tipton, Sand wrote, so he is seeking bank records for Vallejo and Whisenant.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Lottery-scandal-prosecutor-seeks-to-subpoena-9182109.php

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