Investigators are looking into how bettors were allowed to guarantee themselves a $95 million jackpot win, as state leaders question whether the lottery should go on.

Ryan Mindell, the embattled executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission, has resigned, according to a terse press release published on the agency's website Monday afternoon. Mindell's departure comes almost exactly one year to the day after he took over the top job at the agency,

The resignation comes after the Texas House adopted a budget that would reduce the lottery's budget to zero, leaving the agency's future uncertain.