Fraud accusations flooded X within hours of Arkansas naming Tracy L. Hartwick, younger brother of North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick, as its historic, record-breaking $1.8 billion (£1.4 billion) Powerball winner, but the law that exposed him tells a very different story.
Arkansas Scholarship Lottery documents released last week ended six months of speculation over who held the winning ticket from the 24 December drawing, the second-largest jackpot in US history. The records, first obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette through a public records request, arrived with a political twist that lit up social media.
