Ronald Farah / Lottery.com NASDAQ

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Ron Farah, Narcotics trafficker pardoned by President Obama, linked to Lottery.com (NASDAQ) and questionable Lotto Texas Lottery Jackpot of $57.7 Million in April of 2023.

In 1997 Ronald Farah was sentenced to life in prison for importing marijuana into the U.S.. Farah was convicted of narcotics trafficking, for the third time, with the final offense being part of a plan to import over 9,000 pounds of marijuana.  Farah is allegedly known to be the largest individual importer of marijuana in U.S. history by a U.S. citizen.  

See U.S. vs. Ronald Farah:
https://casetext.com/case/farah-v-us

While serving a life sentence in Federal prison Farah reportedly claimed he made donations to the DNC of millions of dollars seeking a Presidential pardon from President Clinton.  He also reportedly claimed he  had millions more donated to the RNC seeking a Presidential Pardon from President Bush.  He then reportedly claimed to have made a second donation of millions of dollars to the DNC  while President Obama was in office. Farah did receive a Presidential Pardon from President Obama in 2016.  Farah was freed from prison by President Obama in 2016, after having served 19-years of a life sentence in Federal prison.

See President Obama Pardon's Ron Farah:

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2016/08/13/boca-boynton-men-among-42/7656538007/

In 2022 Ronald Farah allegedly began swindling $1.8 million in cash from Florida resident Sharon McTurk.  This alleged scheme involved deceiving McTurk into thinking she was  investing her money in exchange for shares of  a NASDAQ listed company named Lottery.com.  Farah claimed to be working with Lottery.com executives at the time. According to a lawsuit filed by McTurk against Lottery.com and it's CEO Matthew McGahan (a U.K. resident), Farah and McGahan engaged in an orchestrated fraud to swindle money from her with the false promise of awarding her millions of shares in the NASDAQ company  in exchange for her investment.  The lawsuit claims that in fact the pair allegedly used McTurk's money for personal expenses and self-dealing, including paying for yacht slips in Monaco, company legal bills paid to the Trowbridge Law Firm, Michigan, and millions of dollars in other expenses for the company and themselves.  McTurk claims in her lawsuit she never received any shares in the company and her money was simply stolen.

See McTurk law suit vs. Lottery.com / Mathew McGahan:

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/0:2024cv60993/669138

Farah died in a U.K. hospital in October of 2023.  Members of the Lottery.com executive team and Board travelled domestically and internationally to attend Farah's funeral service in Florida, including one of the original founders of Lottery.com who was reportedly under  investigation at the time.  After Farah's death his children gave McTurk permission to have Farah's cell phone forensically analyzed. Over 1,500 files where obtained from a certified forensic extraction company which seem to show that Lottery.com, some of its original founders,  and some of its current officers and directors where in regular communication with Farah for over a year preceding his death. These messages to Farah include discussing what appear to be confidential company plans, confidential company financial information, bank wire transfer information, communications about company stock price, and these communications also showed company executives and Board members traveled and met with Farah domestically and internationally.  According to the McTurk lawsuit these communications also show that Farah and current Lottery.com CEO Matthew McGahan allegedly had colluded to deceive Sharon McTurk out of $1.8 million. As Farah was not a Lottery.com officer or executive, and he was a shareholder of Lottery.com, these communications could raise the question of potential insider information / insider trading violations.  All of these 1,500+ files extracted from Farah's phone are available for review by authorized parties.

The communications between Farah and Lottery.com executives seem to show a clear connection to what could be described as potentially the largest lottery related fraud in the history of the lottery industry - the April 2023 Lotto Texas lottery event.  On April 22, 2023, a $95 million lottery (the largest in the U.S. at the time) was won by a single ticket resulting in a lump sum prize award of $57.7 million.  That winning ticket was printed in a dubious event that has been reported in the Houston Chronicle that appears to have circumvented the Texas Lottery Commission rules and regulations to guarantee a jackpot win. In summary, published reports show Lottery.com and other cohorts organized a plan to use specially programmed  ipads and QR codes designed specifically to input every possible Lotto Texas ticket combination ( which is not allowed by Texas Lottery Commission regulations and by rule makes the winning ticket invalid), they allegedly  arranged to get access to dozens of Texas Lottery Commission terminals,  and  they allegedly used these ipads, QR codes and dozens of lottery ticket terminals to print nearly every possible combination of the 26,000,000 combinations for the Lotto Texas lottery game for April 22, 2023.  These millions of tickets were printed in under 72-hours allegedly using the ipad/QR code system and appear to have been not paid for until the next week, after the effort had already won the $57.7 million prize.  The Texas Lottery Commission apparently allowed a company that had publicly disclosed it had run out of money and laid off all its employees to print millions of lottery tickets, including a $57.7 million lump sum winning ticket, on credit with no assurances they would be paid.  Text messages from Ron Farah's phone appear to show he was actively participating in and aware of the planning and execution of the Lotto Texas event, including appearing to get reports from Lottery.com's Chief Operating Officer during the ticket printing frenzy updating him on how many millions of tickets were being successfully printed in Texas on Thursday, April 21, 2023.  Two of the original founders of Lottery.com, who are reportedly under  investigation for alleged Lottery.com related fraud, where reported to be present on site helping print the Lotto Texas lottery tickets during the April 2023 Lotto Texas event.  Farah's phone messages seem to show him communicating with another Lottery.com founder, also allegedly under  investigation, a couple of months after the Lotto Texas event discussing the need to acquire millions of dollars of minerals per month for apparent shipment to Mexico. This Lotto Texas event, which continues to be investigated, is shaping up to possibly be declared the largest fraud in the history of the worldwide lottery industry. The $57.7 million Lotto Texas prize was awarded to an anonymous Delaware Corporation established in June of 2023 named Rook TX.  The Oxford dictionary defines the word "rook" as meaning to "swindle or defraud".  

See Houston Chronicle Lotto Texas article:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/texas-lottery-stack-odds-19398045.php

Farah phone files also show he had a close association with the original Lottery.com founders both before and after the Lotto Texas event.  The amount of money needed to purchase all of the lottery tickets printed for the Lotto Texas scheme, including expenses, total close to $27,000,000.  A review of Lottery.com between when the company went public on NASDAQ in November of 2021 until the company ran out of money 8-months later in July of 2022 seems to show that one of the founders transferred $16,500,000 in cash out of the company to a fraudulent company called J Streiker. SEC filings show that one of the founders also arranged for the payment of  $11,000,000 from the company to Mexico for a purchase of a subsidiary that was later to be shown to be worth no more than $2,500,000 (resulting in a $8,500,000 overpayment). Then in May of 2022, just weeks before all of the founders where fired or resigned when the company imploded the three founders allegedly defrauded a church in California out of $2,700,000 in a fraudulent 7-day loan scheme using company stock as part of the alleged loan scam. A lawsuit is pending on this theft from the church. The total amounts of money apparently taken out of the company in dubious circumstances by the founders between Nov. 2021 and June of 2022 totals $25,000,000.  Added to the $2,700,000 allegedly stolen from the church in California the total comes to $27,700,000, almost exactly the amount of money needed to purchase every ticket in the Lotto Texas scheme in April of 2023.

See California Church Law Suit vs Lottery.com and it's founders:
See Mana World Ministries vs. Tony DiMatteo, Ryan Dickinson, Matthew Clemenson, Lottery.com below in PDF viewer.

Although there has been extensive reporting on Lottery.com and the Lotto Texas event in media outlets around the world, there has been no significant mention to date of the Ron Farah connection to Lottery.com, the Lotto Texas event, and Farah's connection to the $1.8 million alleged fraud claims levied against Lottery.com and it's CEO Matthew McGahan by Sharon McTurk.