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Little Rock - A South Carolina lottery official will join his former colleague in working for the Arkansas Lottery.
Arkansas Lottery Commission Executive Director Ernie Passailaigue says David Barden has accepted an offer to serve as the lottery's vice president of gambling operations. Barden will be paid $225,000 annually.
Passailaigue was the executive director of the South Carolina lottery from 2001 until July of this year, when he took the Arkansas job. He says he expects Barden to begin work in Little Rock on Sunday.
Passailaigue earlier hired another South Carolina lottery official, Ernestine Middleton, as the Arkansas lottery's vice president of administration. Middleton, who started work Thursday, also will be paid $225,000 a year.
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