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Cheese factory workers win lottery again
Powerball: Cheese factory workers win lottery again
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Some of the cheese factory workers who won a $208.6 million Powerball jackpot last summer have won again — this time a $10,000 jackpot. Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage says seven of the original "100 Miracles" who won last August matched 4 of the five regular numbers plus the Powerball in the July 11th Powerball jackpot and won $10,000. Fifteen people won in all. Last year, 100 workers at Sargento Foods Incorporated in Plymouth said they had been playing for three years before winning the $208.6 million Powerball. Bohage says the group has to take the winnings in cash, but they first have to go to court to legally split them.
AP
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10038 Posts Offline |
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"Bohage says the group has to take the winnings in cash, but they first have to go to court to legally split them." I didn't realize the court got involved when there wasn't a dispute. I've heard some states don't give out tax forms that allow each pool members to pay his share of the taxes individually unless the prizes is in the millions. Too much paper work and besides one person would probably owe more on $10K then 7 people would owe on $1.4K individually. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10038 Posts Offline |
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You can bet all the workers at the cheese factory remember their last big win and with these guys just winning a PB $10K prize again, there's a factory pool for this Saturday drawing for $300M for sure.
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Greenwich, CT United States Member #4879 May 24, 2004 1822 Posts Offline |
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I wonder how they all spent their original $700,000. Have any gone broke yet?
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Sunny SW Florida United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4339 Posts Offline |
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RJOh - note that more than 7 people won. It says Fifteen people won in all. So they each only won $666. So now we know why they're so lucky!! LOL
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Chief Bottle Washer New Jersey United States Member #1 May 31, 2000 16380 Posts Offline |
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RJOh - note that more than 7 people won. It says Fifteen people won in all. So they each only won $666. So now we know why they're so lucky!! LOL I hope they don't spend it all in one place.
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NY United States Member #24178 October 16, 2005 1603 Posts Offline |
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Going to court sounds like the complicated way to do it. One of them should just claim it, pay the taxes, and then make a gift to each member of the group. Better still, have somebody in a low tax bracket claim it and keep $250 for their trouble.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10038 Posts Offline |
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RJOh - note that more than 7 people won. It says Fifteen people won in all. So they each only won $666. So now we know why they're so lucky!! LOL My mistake. Now it's even clearer why they wanted to legally split it.
Before I retired the factory pool I was in won second prize three times and no one in the pool wanted to cash the ticket and be responsible for the extra taxes since the state never took out enough money.
We all decided the the pool members with kids in college and no job could pick one of them to cash it in, we paid he/she a fee and since their tax bracket was lower, they would also get a refund when they filed their taxes. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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Illinois United States Member #30849 January 17, 2006 3825 Posts Online |
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As soon as I saw "cheese" I was thinking Wisconsin. I wonder if this is near the "miracle mile". It's Lotto, not horseshoes or artillery!
close doesn't count! I sell everything at a loss but make up for it in volume
- Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22
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Sunny SW Florida United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4339 Posts Offline |
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That's odd, Coin Toss. When I hear "cheese" I think of photographers.  Did the first winners buy a cottage? (groan) or did they put their money into a Swiss bank account? This story certainly has a lot of holes it in.  I wonder why anyone would hire a lawyer since they usually know jack about the lottery. Plus a lawyer would only grill the 15 members which wouldn't be gouda at all, so they should just stop worrying about who gets a pizza the prize and just process the claim before they all age too much. After all, it's not such a grate amount and if someone isn't entitled to anything he can say to him "Hey, it's nacho cheese."  Oh, BTW, I agree with KY Floyd about just giving the money as a gift to the others. This doesn't make sense to me either.
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Coastal Georgia United States Member #2703 October 30, 2003 1868 Posts Offline |
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That's odd, Coin Toss. When I hear "cheese" I think of photographers. Did the first winners buy a cottage? (groan) or did they put their money into a Swiss bank account? This story certainly has a lot of holes it in. I wonder why anyone would hire a lawyer since they usually know jack about the lottery. Plus a lawyer would only grill the 15 members which wouldn't be gouda at all, so they should just stop worrying about who gets a pizza the prize and just process the claim before they all age too much. After all, it's not such a grate amount and if someone isn't entitled to anything he can say to him "Hey, it's nacho cheese." Oh, BTW, I agree with KY Floyd about just giving the money as a gift to the others. This doesn't make sense to me either. LMAOROFL !!!! Any way you slice it, you sure have a KRAFTy way with words, JXP !!!
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PA United States Member #23322 October 6, 2005 1811 Posts Offline |
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Sunny SW Florida United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4339 Posts Offline |
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Good one DD! I chedder thought of that one myself, but my brain didn't process it.
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ORLANDO, FLORIDA United States Member #5011 June 3, 2004 2170 Posts Offline |
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I was in a pool, with 9 others. We hit 5/6 in Lotto. We had 1 person claim it , with the other 9 names, address, SSn. Each person received a W-2G form, showing winning amount and taxes withheld. The Lottery Regional office took care of the paperwork and the check was made out to 1 person with taxes deducted.
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nashville United States Member #50355 February 18, 2007 907 Posts Offline |
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I was in a pool, with 9 others. We hit 5/6 in Lotto. We had 1 person claim it , with the other 9 names, address, SSn. Each person received a W-2G form, showing winning amount and taxes withheld. The Lottery Regional office took care of the paperwork and the check was made out to 1 person with taxes deducted. congrats on your win. are you still playing in the pool?
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