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Florida Supreme Court orders new trial in $1M lottery disputeNews Story
Howard Browning is a guy who does not give up. In 2008, he sued his live-in sweetheart, a Seminole County schoolteacher, after she refused to give him half of the $1 million lottery jackpot she won. They had a deal, he insisted, although it was unwritten: If he won the lottery, he'd give her half and if she won, she'd give him half. A judge in Sanford threw out his case in 2012 after a jury had begun to hear evidence, and an appeals court later agreed. But on Thursday, the Florida Supre
May 29, 2015, 11:18 am - Todd - Lottery News

CT lawmakers again seek lottery winnings from 1995 ticketNews Story
By the time state Rep. Ernest Hewett met him, the kid was in his 30s. But to Hewett, the six-term Democrat from New London, Clarence Jackson's still the kid. And Hewett says he'll keep fighting for him until Jackson gets the $5.8 million Connecticut lottery jackpot that's eluded him for more than 18 years. 'Give the kid the money' that's what they used to say around the Capitol, Hewett recalled last week. That's what we ought to do. Jackson's oft-told story, revived again this month d
Feb 23, 2015, 11:01 am - Todd - Lottery News

$321 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot is red hotReply
I've also wondered if the JP counts as income for the yr. when you claim it or when you won it? I think everybody realizes that you can't just hang on to a paycheck for a month in order to claim income form that check in the following year. The IRS figured that one out a long time ago, so to prevent people from postponing income to which they're entitled they came up with the concept of economic benefit or constructive receipt . That means that the year in which any kind of income is taxabl
Nov 2, 2014, 11:41 am - KY Floyd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery still hunting mystery Hot Lotto winner [video]News Story
Includes video report Iowa investigators are asking the public for help in identifying the person who bought a lottery ticket worth $14.3 million that spawned a bizarre, two-year fraud investigation. Investigators want to learn the identity of a white man wearing a hooded sweatshirt who purchased the lottery ticket at a QuikTrip near Interstate Highway 80 on Dec. 23, 2010, said Dave Jobes, an Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation assistant director, during a news conference Thursday. The
Oct 10, 2014, 8:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Jury rules that estranged brothers must split $1M lottery prizeNews Story
Over a year of legal bickering ended Wednesday afternoon, but it appeared neither brother feuding over a jackpot lottery ticket was ready to move on and sing Kumbaya together. After a two-day trial in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, court, a jury decided two Mechanicsburg-area brothers, Charles Thomas Meehan and Ira Sharp, would split a $1 million lottery ticket straight down the middle. Sharp sued Meehan, his half-brother, for half of the prize he said they won together at Johnny Joe's b
Jul 16, 2014, 5:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Litigation Proofing your lottery poolReply
FLORIDA MEGA MONEY MONTHLY LOTTERY POOL AGREEMENT By (name) This is an agreement for our MEGA MONEY pool; this is not a contract making you play monthly. Drawings are held every Tuesday and Friday night. The cost to play is $2 per drawing or about $18 per month. No partial dues allowed. Money is accepted any time and is due no later than the 29th of each month to play in the following month. Do not pay more than the monthly due; this will not increase your payout. Money can be paid to
Apr 18, 2013, 6:39 am - schmuckatelly - Lottery Discussion Forum

Pool of McDonald's workers claims Mega Millions fraudReply
privacy is number #1 goal of smart winners no one needs to know u won a penny form the lottery sense people have 1 hell of a entitlment issue with your money,and think they can sue for it. these clowns are a sick joke. a rather funny one thro. really these clowns need to go worry about missing up on orders and not a lottery ticket they never had as a group. my group won. however person with ticket given it to someone else. or lost it, or left in in mc'd
Oct 1, 2012, 8:32 pm - joshuacloak - Lottery News

Three women vying for ownership of $1 million lottery ticketNews Story
Includes video report A winning $1 million lottery ticket picked out of a gas station trash can has become the subject of a three-way legal battle in Arkansas. Sharon Jones was at a Super One Stop in July 2011 in Bebee, Ark., when she went to a trash bin to pick up a handful of discarded lottery tickets, as she had done many times before, according to her attorneys. A program through the lottery commission website allows people to register non-winning tickets for points that they can us
Jan 26, 2012, 9:20 pm - Todd - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery continues to evolve online gambling planNews Story
The D.C. Lottery's planned online gambling program will not be hosted on the city's secure DC-NET Internet system as originally planned, information technology officials said Wednesday. The gambling program known as iGaming faces a repeal effort in the D.C. Council, yet lottery officials have been working on its implementation since it passed into law as part of a supplemental budget plan last December. D.C. Lottery's initial plans to use DC-NET a high-speed fiber-optic network that carrie
Dec 8, 2011, 8:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

Illegal alien faces deportation after threatening his boss over lottery prizeNews Story
Claims he let boss claim lottery jackpot to avoid being discovered; then gets discovered when he threatened boss Includes video report A Georgia man who was jailed for threatening his boss over a disputed $750,000 lottery ticket faces deportation, with authorities saying he is in the U.S. illegally. Police say Jose Antonio Cua-Toc threatened his boss, Erick Cervantes, and his wife, calling them repeatedly and saying he would kill each of them and their children if they did not give him
Aug 24, 2011, 3:29 pm - Todd - Lottery News