Newly surfaced audio of Greg Potts, chief operating officer of Lottery.com, suggests the company was intimately involved in the controversial April 2023 Lotto Texas event, which guaranteed a $95 million jackpot win for a single buyer.
The audio bolsters Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s claim that the 2023 lottery event was one of the largest scandals in the game’s history and raises the specter of recurrence.
The recorded call, reviewed by Texas Scorecard, is a one-sided conversation in which listeners hear Potts, speaking in the days after the unprecedented Lotto Texas event, outlining the operation’s inner workings and contradicting representations to state lawmakers.
Potts expressed excitement about the “QR code process” used to facilitate the $95 million win. Changes to machines in the lead-up to the drawing, thanks in part to Lotto.com, a separate lottery ticket reseller, and the state’s lottery vendor, IGT, allowed tickets to be printed en masse and at a scale, making the scheme workable.
The call audio appears to contradict Pott’s Senate testimony in February 2025, when he said he was uncertain whether QR codes were used. But public reporting confirmed that QR codes were used to rapidly scan millions of ticket combinations into lottery terminals, a method not explicitly authorized by the commission.
When Potts was asked if Lottery.com could replicate a similar printing operation in Tennessee, he had to inform the buyer that it wasn’t possible. At the time, Texas had the dubious distinction of being the state in which such a printing operation could be run.
Part of the play in Texas relied on a compliant regulator and vendor, something that Potts noted wouldn’t be the case in Tennessee, where officials would not simply “drop off machines” as IGT did in Texas.
When asked about the referenced “they,” to whom Potts referred when mentioning the buyer, Potts did not reply.
Another element discussed on the call was staffing and training. Tickets were printed in four locations, including Spicewood, TX. That location was one of two contracted to print tickets for the buyer and one of two connected with Potts and Lottery.com.
Potts discusses sending crews to his company’s Waco location, but notes that they lacked training on the process. When he discusses the process, as established by public reporting, it involved using QR codes and IGT terminals to automate ticket entry training, which appeared ad hoc and, according to video evidence, included children at the terminals in the Spicewood location.
During testimony before the Senate State Affairs Committee, Potts claimed that Lottery.com was not in charge of personnel involved in the ticket printing.
Potts states in the recording that “the Texas Lottery helped us even get this thing done,” a claim supported by records showing the commission’s rapid approval of extra terminals and technical support for the operation.
In response, state lawmakers shut down the Texas Lottery Commission during the 2025 regular session, but the lottery itself was kept alive. It will now be run by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
In July 2025, IGT rebranded as Brightstar.
Multiple investigations remain ongoing, by both state and federal law enforcement, into the state lottery. Additional civil and criminal filings may follow.
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