If there is one thing aside from taxes and death in life, it’s that everyone wants to win the lottery! This desire dates back to the earliest days of lottery games and continues to this day. The lure of easy money (sometimes in the millions) is enough to drive people potty and attempt to discover ways that they might beat the system and walk away millionaires. However, while there is no accurate way to ‘beat’ the lottery, there are some things you could do that will slightly increase your odds…
Ridgewood NJ, With the gambling industry bringing in a record $60 billion in revenue last year, and the Kentucky Derby soon to kick off, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023’s Most Gambling-Addicted States, as well as expert commentary, along with its Kentucky Derby Facts & History infographic.
WASHINGTON DC, President Trump’s Executive Order on Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports on data collection efforts. On December 18, 2017, DHS and DOJ released the FY 2017 4th Quarter Alien Incarceration Report, complying with this order.[1] The report found that more than one-in-five of all persons in Bureau of Prisons custody were foreign born, and that 94 percent of confirmed aliens in custody were unlawfully present.
“While the administration is working diligently to remove dangerous criminal aliens from our streets, this report highlights the fact that more must be done,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen. “We will continue to pursue President Trump’s immigration priorities, including securing the border, enhancing interior enforcement, and pursuing a merit-based immigration system, but Congress must act immediately to adopt obvious solutions to strengthen DHS and DOJ efforts to confront dangerous criminal aliens.”
“The American people deserve a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest,” Attorney General Sessions said. “But at the border and in communities across America, our citizens are being victimized by illegal aliens who commit crimes. Nearly 95 percent of confirmed aliens in our federal prisons are here illegally. We know based on sentencing data that non-citizens commit a substantially disproportionate number of drug-related offenses, which contributes to our national drug abuse crisis. The simple fact is that any offense committed by a criminal alien is ultimately preventable. One victim is too many. It’s time for Congress to enact the President’s immigration reform agenda so that we start welcoming the best and brightest while turning away drug dealers, gang members, and other criminals.”
Section 16 of the Executive Order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports regarding: (a) the immigration status of all aliens incarcerated under the supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons; (b) the immigration status of all aliens incarcerated as federal pretrial detainees under the supervision of the United States Marshals Service; and (c) the immigration status of all convicted aliens in state prisons and local detention centers throughout the United States.
A total of 58,766 known or suspected aliens were in in DOJ custody at the end of FY 2017, including 39,455 persons in BOP custody and 19,311 in USMS custody. Of this total, 37,557 people had been confirmed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be aliens (i.e., non-citizens and non-nationals), while 21,209 foreign-born people were still under investigation by ICE to determine alienage and/or removability.
Among the 37,557 confirmed aliens, 35,334 people (94 percent) were unlawfully present. These numbers include a 92 percent unlawful rate among 24,476 confirmed aliens in BOP custody and a 97 percent unlawful rate among 13,081 confirmed aliens in USMS custody.
This report does not include data on the foreign-born or alien populations in state prisons and local jails because state and local facilities do not routinely provide DHS or DOJ with comprehensive information about their inmates and detainees—which account for approximately 90 percent of the total U.S. incarcerated population.
Information Regarding Immigration Status of Aliens Incarcerated Under the Supervision of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has an operational process for maintaining data regarding foreign-born inmates in its custody. On a quarterly basis, BOP supplies this information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE, in turn, analyzes that information to determine the immigration status of each inmate and provides that information back to BOP.
Out of the 185,507 inmates in BOP custody, 39,455 (21%) were reported by BOP as foreign-born. Further details regarding these 39,455 foreign-born inmates are as follows:
20,240 (51%) were unauthorized aliens who are subject to a final order of removal;
14,979 (38%) remain under ICE investigation;
2,374 (6%) were unlawfully present and now in removal proceedings;
1,852 (less than 5%) were lawfully present aliens but are now in removal proceedings; and
10 were aliens who have been granted relief or protection from removal.
Information Regarding the Immigration Status of Aliens Incarcerated as Federal Pretrial Detainees
USMS identified 19,311 aliens and foreign-born inmates under ICE investigation detained at USMS facilities. Further details regarding these 19,311 foreign-born inmates are as follows:
11,459 (59%) were aliens who are subject to a final order of removal;
6,230 (32%) remain under ICE investigation;
1,261 (6.5%) were unlawfully present and now in removal proceedings;
358 (less than 2%) were lawfully present but are now in removal proceedings; and
3 were aliens who have been granted relief or protection from removal.
Immigration Status of All Convicted Aliens Incarcerated in State Prisons and Local Detention Centers Throughout the United States
The Departments continue to progress towards establishing data collection of the immigration status of convicted aliens incarcerated in state prisons and local detention centers through the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics.
The high school senior qualified to audition for all-state choir, but he’d also been invited to interview for the prestigious Jefferson Scholarship, which promised a full ride to the University of Virginia worth $125,000. He couldn’t be in both places at the same time.
“Unfortunately,” warned the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, “the flexibility will have to come from the choral organization, or you will have to choose between the two.”
The Virginia Choral Directors Association was just as uncompromising. It cautioned that only an illness “severe enough that continued participation would be harmful to the student’s health” would excuse the 17-year-old choir president from a full day’s attendance.
The annual mating dance between high school seniors and the nation’s colleges and universities is under way, and it’s not pretty. Class of 2020 decision letters will go out at month’s end, even as tuition and fees rise faster than inflation, producing about $107 billion in education debt last year, according to the College Board.
JULY 9, 2015, 7:36 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015, 12:55 PM
BY DUSTIN RACIOPPI
STATE HOUSE BUREAU |
THE RECORD
The Powerball lottery jackpots are about to get bigger – but so too will the odds against winning, a change that will likely mean fewer winners but more money for the states that run the game.
The changes come as multistate lottery sales have dropped by a third in New Jersey, cutting into one of the state’s biggest revenue sources. Slower sales could mean less for education programs and housing for veterans and the disabled.
And it comes as lottery officials here and in other states are blaming “jackpot fatigue,” the claim that sales drop because customers aren’t excited by smaller jackpots. Experts and lottery critics, however, said any change that makes bigger jackpots might either backfire — since there would be far fewer winners of big payouts, causing players to keep away — or have just a short-term effect on sales.
The change is set to take effect Oct. 4 and was made by the consortium that oversees the multistate lottery; states that offer the game must agree to the new rule.
Once the change is in place, the odds against winning the Powerball will grow by two-thirds – from a one-in-175,223,510 chance of winning to one in 292,201,338, according to the New Jersey Lottery.
Put another way, it’s 400 times more likely an individual will get struck by lightning than win the Powerball jackpot under the new rules. As it stands now, winning this lottery is only 250 times more likely than facing a lightning strike.
Players currently win by matching five numbers from a set of 59 white balls and a sixth – the Powerball — from a set of 35 red balls. Numbers are drawn twice a week. If no one matches all six numbers in a drawing, the jackpot increases by at least $10 million. In October, the number of white balls available will increase to 69, while the pool of red balls will decrease to 26.
Two men sue N.J. for $1M after tossing winning lottery ticket
JUNE 25, 2014, 10:56 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014, 11:18 PM BY MICHAEL LINHORST STATE HO– USE BUREAU THE RECORD Print PAGES: 1 2 > DISPLAY ON ONE PAGE
A million-dollar lottery ticket sold in Mahwah is buried somewhere in a Canadian landfill, and now the men who bought it are suing the Lottery Commission to try to get their money.
They say they threw the Powerball ticket away because they thought it was a loser after checking the winning numbers on the lottery’s website — which, they claim, hadn’t been updated.
This wasn’t just any Powerball drawing: It was the $338 million jackpot from March 23, 2013, won by Passaic resident Pedro Quezada.
The men with the missing ticket — Salvatore Cambria and Erick Onyango of Suffern, N.Y. — filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this week, arguing the lottery is at fault for failing to post the accurate numbers online more quickly.
Quezada won the grand prize by getting every number right, including the Powerball.
Cambria said his ticket had every correct number except the Powerball, a combination that would have won him the consolation prize of $1 million.
But he didn’t know that on the night of the drawing.
