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Lottery operator faces $20 million penalty

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The Illinois Lottery says it is entitled to $20 million from Northstar Lottery Group after the private manager fell $95 million short of promised profits.

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The private operator of the Illinois Lottery faces a $20 million penalty because it fell nearly $66 million short of the profits it promised the state in its inaugural year, state officials said Monday. Northstar Lottery Group will have to pay the penalty even though its sales were nearly $400 million higher in fiscal year 2012 than in the last year the state administered the lottery, state officials said.