The lottery offered more than $20 million in prizes, surpassing lotteries in neighboring Ohio and Maryland combined, and offering scholarships, vacations, cash and vehicles.
in an effort to encourage vaccinations. In West Virginia, which had one of the country's largest sweepstakes, anyone who got the COVID shot could register for cash and prizes. CBS News has learned federal investigators subpoenaed Gov. Jim Justice's office about the sweepstakes. The focus, according to the governor's staff, is car dealers that supplied trucks that were given to lottery winners and questions about how much they cost taxpayers.
"It blew my mind," Fowler said."So I said, the next time someone says, 'You win,' I'm going to say, 'Keep it.'" Another political rival, Republican State Sen. Eric Tarr, questioned the effectiveness of the vaccine lottery in driving up vaccination rates. Justice declined an interview request from CBS News, although his team said they responded to federal investigators with records when they were subpoenaed.
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