Gary Grief, former executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission, was indicted by a Travis County grand jury last month for felony abuse of office before the case was dismissed three days later at the request of an assistant district attorney, court records show.
The April 14 indictment alleged Grief misused his position as executive director of the now-shuttered Texas Lottery Commission to defraud the state during the Lotto Texas drawing on April 22, 2023. That $95 million drawing was the subject of intense scrutiny after a Houston Chronicle investigation revealed that one group, led by an overseas gambler, used dozens of lottery ticket printers in four different locations to buy almost all of the 26 million possible number combinations.
