Lottery lobbying: a high-risk business

Former North Carolina state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings, who failed to disclose his work for Scientfic Games, was convicted on federal charges Thursday and faces up to 20 years in prison on each of five counts of fraud, News 14 Carolina reported. Prosecutors said Geddings defrauded the state of honest services by failing to disclose more than $250,000 in payments his public relations firm received from Scientific Games, which lost the online lottery contract to GTECH when the North Carolina Education Lottery launched last year.