NY brothers charged in plot to steal $5M New York Lottery ticket

Sage stuff, Nikkicute, thanks!

Winning moment

Miles recalled the day in 2006 when he bought the ticket. It was his lunchtime ritual to buy as much as $200 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets, he said.

Miles scratched off the ticket and knew that he’d hit the jackpot with this $20 scratch-off — $5 million. In the store, he gave the ticket to Andy Ashkar, who scanned it and told him it was only worth $5,000, Miles said.

Then Ashkar said the store was charging $1,000 to cash it, and gave Miles $4,000, Miles said.

Miles started to protest, but Ashkar ran out the door with the ticket, said he was taking it to the lottery office downtown, then jumped in a car and sped away, Miles said.

“I was running down the street behind the car, yelling,” Miles said. “A lot of people seen me yelling at him.”

Miles admitted he was in no condition to fight that day. He’d gotten high on crack cocaine the night before, he said.

“I knew, I knew,” he said, referring to the $5 million value of the ticket. “But that day, it wasn’t a good day for me.”

 He said he no longer uses drugs. He’s held a steady job as a maintenance man for years, raised two children and helped raise three stepdaughters.

Glad to see the real winner get what's rightfully his and hopefully the POS brothers will get what's coming to them (jail time.)

Unfortunately, I get the feeling that the winner will be broke in a few short years as he seems like an easy mark for swindlers.

Sadly, your probably right.

I could see him buying IPO's for exporting green cheese from the Moon. 

Thanks Nikkicute,that was the answer I was looking for.

Your welcome

Lottery seems fair in the scratch offs, just have to be in the right

store at the right time to win.

Don't you find it odd that after six years the lottery commision was able to find the guy that was the rightfull owner. How does that even work? Second how would john doe prove that he purchased the ticket? Third i wasn't aware that stores keep six years of security footage. Smells a little fishy on both ends.

If you smelled a rat like Ronnie316, you'd be on to something! 

 But since you only smell a fish, your at a dead end. 

Wow, you missed the entire story! Start with page 1.

The lottery released the story of the brothers collecting the win after the 6 years in the hopes

the real winner would come forward. They have not stated how exactly they know his story is true

but they have documents and witnesses to prove his story, no mention of security footage.

Just look up the story and you'll see the guy knew they somehow ripped him off and

it's been eating away at him for years.

Yeah. I raised these very same points 5 pages back.

Likely he was in the store with someone who recalled the incident.

He may have still been a regular and worked with the lottery to entrap those scully wags.

And as someone suggested in response to my original post, he was probably able to provide banking documents when he received the 4k from the Bozo Twins.

Sorry i didn't read the comments or the entire story.

You didn't miss much, just another store clerk ripping off another dumb lottery player.......

So many dumb lottery players.....so few clerks. 

This time ... Drugs = Delayed mental and physical reactions, Delayed lottery jackpot receival, Loss of Hundreds of Thousands of dollars investment interest.

How did this ending lottery partial-jackpot collector/"spiritual man" get $200 regularly for scratch-offs, was it the same place he got thousands of dollars to obtain cocaine and possibly other drugs?

Maybe none of this bizarre stuff matters.  Is low cost big money (net $2M+) weird or what?

Guess it's what makes this world go round.

Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason for what happens.