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Article: Man suing lottery also sued R.I. lottery for reinstatement
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- December 31, 2008
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BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Man suing lottery also sued R.I. lottery for reinstatement
The manager of the startup firm that is suing the Massachusetts
State Lottery over its failure to implement the firm's TV bingo game
also tried to launch a TV bingo game in Rhode Island in the 1990s.
A lawyer for John Hawkins, manager of Bingo Innovative Software
LLC, confirmed that he is the same John Hawkins who was the Rhode
Island lottery director in the 1990s. Hawkins was dismissed from the
job in 1996, and The Providence Journal reported that the failure to
launch the TV bingo game there was one reason. Hawkins
unsuccessfully sued the Lottery commission to be reinstated.
Last week, Bingo Innovative Software ...