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Almost-millionaire on a 15-year political pilgrimageNews Story
Still hasn't given up fight for $5.8 million It all started with a lottery ticket. For Clarence Jackson, life over the past 15 years has been a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows that began with a once-in-a-lifetime ticket that would have made him a multimillionaire. Jackson was the guy who held the winning ticket for $5.8 million and tried unsuccessfully to cash it after he missed the one-year deadline by three days. This year marks the 15th anniversary of a memorable debate in t
Mar 19, 2012, 7:47 am - Lottery News

New England states start new lottery game ThursdayNews Story
Updated Mar. 13, 2012, 11:12 am: New game replaces Weekly Grand Extra. By Todd Northrop For the first time ever, the six New England states will jointly run a multi-state lottery game, starting this week. The new Lucky for Life regional draw game begins this Thursday, March 15 for the six following states: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massechusetts, and Rhode Island. Ticket sales for the new game started Sunday. For Connecticut, the new Lucky for Life replaces a simila
Mar 13, 2012, 9:00 am - Lottery News

Connecticut lottery winners settle $1 million battleNews Story
Money doesn't always buy happiness especially when it involves two friends fighting over a winning Powerball ticket. Last week, Armando Martins, a drywall installer from Trumbull and Nino Nascimento, a local mason, agreed to settle their three-year legal battle in state Superior Court over a $1 million winning ticket. Under the terms of the settlement, reached before Judge Barbara Bellis, Martins will get $630,000 while Nascimento gets $370,000. Both Martins and Nascimento declined comm
Jan 30, 2012, 7:41 am - Lottery News

Connecticut Lottery draws $1M Super Draw raffleNews Story
By Todd Northrop The Connecticut Lottery today held the state's third Super Draw raffle drawing, creating one new millionaire and several winners of other cash prizes. A complete list of winning numbers for the drawing can be found at Lottery Post's Connecticut Lottery Results page. The game has a total of 1,311 cash prizes, ranging from $100 to a top prize of $1 million cash. Raffle tickets went on sale October 1, 2011, and cost $10 each. Each ticket sold contains a unique six-digit
Jan 1, 2012, 11:44 pm - Lottery News

Connecticut to audit lottery winners for back taxesNews Story
After successfully targeting deadbeat parents, the state of Connecticut is going after tax evaders' lottery winnings. Beginning Dec. 31, a new law will take effect requiring the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to deduct delinquent taxes, crosschecked with the Department of Revenue Services, from any claim of $5,000 or more. If someone is lucky enough to win a lottery prize and they also owe back taxes, it is reasonable to collect those taxes at that time, co-sponsor Rep. Gerald Fox, D-Sta
Dec 20, 2011, 7:42 am - Lottery News

Retailer perspective: Selling a $254M lottery ticketNews Story
At first, Ranjit Singh didn't recognize the name of the customer who bought the quarter-of-a-billion-dollar-winning Powerball ticket across the counter of his gas station on Nov. 1. But then when he saw the man on television, he remembered. All of the employees of the BP on McGee Avenue in Stamford recognized him. He lived in the condos you could see from the station. He came in almost every workday and bought a cup of coffee on his way to work. Mr. Singh is pretty sure he remembers now, he told
Dec 12, 2011, 3:03 pm - Lottery News

Ct. Powerball lottery winners signed affidavit swearing they are only members of trustNews Story
The trust fund established by three Greenwich men who claimed the $254 million Powerball prize last month will expire in one year and the money will then go into a second trust, according to a copy of the trust agreement obtained by local media. The three men signed an affidavit the day after a press conference announcing the Putnam Avenue Family Trust as the winner, swearing that the second trust named the West Putnam Avenue Trust has no silent partners and that no person ineligible to win t
Dec 7, 2011, 9:11 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery winners award $1 million in grantsNews Story
Three Connecticut men who claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot last week made good on their statement that they would be immediately donating a sizable amount to charity. The trustees of the Putnam Avenue Family Trust has awarded their first $1 million in charitable grants to five veteran support organizations. The Putnam Avenue Family Trust was set up after the winning Connecticut lottery ticket, worth $254 million, was bought. The organizations were selected on their proven abilit
Dec 5, 2011, 12:24 pm - Lottery News

Connecticut Powerball mystery deepensNews Story
Includes video report Three money managers who claimed the state's record-breaking $254.2 million Powerball jackpot on Monday may still have a fight ahead of them in the court of public opinion. A day after the trio announced they had scored the windfall on a $1 ticket one of them bought at a gas station, media reports surfaced Tuesday that the men had in fact acted on behalf of an anonymous client. The speculation started almost immediately: Who could the mystery buyer be? A lucky hedg
Nov 30, 2011, 12:26 pm - Lottery News

Asset managers accused of fronting for real $254M Powerball winnerNews Story
For three men who had apparently just won $254 million they looked far from ecstatic. And last night the three wealthy bankers who came forward to claim a record Powerball jackpot were facing claims that they were not in fact the real winners. An anonymous man one of their clients is said to have actually purchased the ticket but came to the trio to avoid the 'hassle' of his name becoming public. They then allegedly set up a trust 'as a front' so that Tim Davidson, Brandon Lacoff, and G
Nov 29, 2011, 7:46 am - Lottery News