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Two face lottery fraud counts

Allegedly took welfare benefits

By Andrea Estes

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 31, 2012

Two big time lottery winners are facing arraignment on fraud charges Thursday after the state auditor found that they collected welfare benefits during the same period that they won hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lottery. James T. Casey Jr, of Waltham, did not tell welfare officials that he has won more than $700,000 since 2009, Auditor Suzanne Bump found, a period in which he has collected $12,157 in MassHealth benefits and $1,553 in food stamps.

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