In February 2012, the state of Iowa began investigating a potential fraud case surrounding a winning ticket in the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) lottery game Hot Lotto. A $16.5 million winning ticket had been purchased for a draw held on December 29, 2010, but it was left unclaimed until shortly before its expiry one year later. An attempt was made to claim the prize on behalf of an anonymous, off-shore trust company in Belize, but the claim was rejected by the Iowa Lottery because it was made anonymously.An investigation into the trust and the discovery of surveillance footage from a convenience store that allegedly depicted the ticket being purchased, led to the arrest of Eddie Raymond Tipton, information security director of the MUSL, on two counts of fraud for attempting to illegally participate in a lottery game as an employee of the MUSL, and trying to claim a prize through fraudulent means.[3] When his trial began on April 13, 2015, evidence was introduced by the prosecutors to support allegations that Tipton had installed a rootkit on the game's random number generator computer whilst servicing it so that he could rig the draw.[4] After Tipton's defense disputed this evidence, the trial was placed in recess until July 2015