![]() ![]() ![]() Noble, the previous CEO, was making $212,000 in the job, $12,000 more than Smith will be earning. The newly concluded fiscal year’s $785 million in prizes to players, and its $70 million in commissions to retailers, also were records. “I would probably like to delay this conversation until I have another exchange with the Illinois administration,” said Smith, an appointee of Republican Illinois Gov. Reached by phone Thursday afternoon in Illinois, Smith said he didn’t feel right talking about his new job until he consulted with his current superiors. He ran that lottery from 2012 to 2016 - then left to become acting director for the Illinois lottery agency, which several years earlier had become the first in the country to hand over its day-to-day management to a private firm. Smith, 59, who will start July 20 and be paid $200,000 a year, is the former director of the Vermont Lottery. 22, 2016, when CEO Anne Noble stepped down amid controversy and entered an unusual and lucrative severance agreement with the agency’s board of directors. The lottery’s top job had been vacant since Sept. The Connecticut Lottery Corp.’s governing board voted Thursday to hire Gregory Smith, acting director of the Illinois Lottery, as its new CEO in hopes of finding stability after nearly two years of turmoil, recriminations and investigations at the quasi-public agency with a $1.2 billion annual budget. ![]()
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