November 01, 2002
Employee Fired For Altering Betting
Employee Fired For Altering Betting Slips: This Pick 6 story gets more interesting every day. Just yesterday, Autotote, the company that runs the betting system for OTB, had some additional interesting news to impart:
Thursday, an employee for the company that handled the Breeders’ Cup Pick Six wagering was fired for allegedly altering tickets that turned out to be worth more than $3 million.
Lorne Weil, chairman and CEO of Scientific Games, the parent company of Autotote Corp., said during a conference call with Wall Street investment firms that the former employee was identified after an internal investigation.
Weil said the former Autotote Corp. employee had the password to get into the data system and alter the betting ticket after the first four races of the Ultra Pick Six had been run and the results were known.
Weil didn’t identify the employee or say how the ticket had been altered. The New York Times in its Friday editions, quoting unidentified racing officials, identified the employee as Chris Harn, 29, who worked in Autotote’s offices in Newark, Del.
A phone message left at Autotote on Thursday by The Associated Press was not returned.
It's important to note that this incident is not linked directly to the Pick 6 wagers made on last Saturday's Breeders' Cup -- but it does reinforce the possibility that someone could have tampered with the system in order to alter said bets.
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