A game of chance became anything but (2011)

> Every time Random Strategies turned in a batch of winning tickets, the Lottery generated a W-2G for every member of the group. Even small investors in the MIT group -– for example, someone who won $800 over the course of a year -– would get dozens of W-2Gs every year and have to spend hours accounting for their winnings on their tax returns. The hassle prompted some people to cash out and leave the investment pool

Why couldn't the group invest in tickets under its own name and distribute earnings to investors in a slightly less paperwork-heavy fashion?

That incident was quickly referenced in the article.

“One would have to be brain-dead not to notice that the avalanche [in sales] had begun in the days leading up to the August 16th draw,’’ said Mohan Srivastava, a Canadian statistician who gained fame in gambling circles when he found a flaw in a Canadian instant game, allowing him to accurately pick winning tickets 90 percent of the time.