Why didn't Splinter use his psychic abilities to win the lottery?

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The Central Intelligence Agency used remote viewers - psychic spies who could send telepathic messages back through time to themselves. So why didn't Splinter use his psychic abilities to send a telepathic message back through time to tell himself lottery numbers? Then April could have bought a lottery ticket and she, he, and the turtles could have been rich and they could have helped the poor and like build orphanages.

[Sewer Bull]

And what makes you think he didn't already...

... well, someone has to pay for all these hot pizzas somehow, right?

[Kali]

I can't imagine that that would sit very well on Splinter's ethics. I mean, if he could do that, there's literally nothing outside his range of influence, and he'd probably use the power to defeat Shredder or something. There're also a few time paradoxes that would conflict with that.