N.J. Officials Warn Residents Of Lottery Scam
New Jersey Lottery officials are warning Garden State residents to beware of a scam involving letters claiming large lottery winnings.Lottery officials have been alerted to fraudulent letters telling people that they have won $1 million from the Mega Millions Lottery.The letter instructs the recipient to call a special phone number to claim the $500,000 they are eligible to receive.Those who call are asked for sensitive financial information.New Jersey Lottery officials have contacted the Federa ...
Aug 3, 2005, 11:33 am - - Lottery News forum
N.J. store owners win lottery jackpot
Not only did Jr.'s Wholesale on McBride Avenue in Paterson, New Jersey, sell two winning lottery tickets totaling $3.25 million last month, but the family that owns the convenience store includes the winners, New Jersey Lottery officials confirmed Monday.The DeLillos, of Garfield, took home the Pick 6 Lotto top prize for the July 14 drawing.Their numbers - 13, 15, 21, 28, 38 and 39 -represent various birthdays and years, said Bob DeLillo Sr., who started Jr.'s Wholesale 21 years ago. Yeah, it wa ...
Aug 3, 2005, 10:48 am - - Lottery News forum
NJ House rejects lottery appropriation for teachers
The New Jersey House of Representatives rejected yesterday the Senate amendment to appropriate $33,000 in unclaimed lottery funds to full-time Public School System teachers.House Education Committee chair Justo S. Quitugua said the bill now goes to the conference committee for resolution.He said there is a need to change some language in the bill. For instance, he said that, if the entire fund of $33,000 is distributed among the 500 PSS teachers, each recipient would only end up getting $66. I ...
Jul 6, 2005, 8:09 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery lightning strikes twice for NJ store owner
For 18 years, Glenn Pompei, owner of two liquor stores, never sold a winning state lottery ticket from either store.But twice in the past two months, a winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket has been sold from each of his stores in Morris County.On Wednesday night, some lucky ticket holder won the top Jersey Cash 5 jackpot prize of $263,820.The ticket holder, which was purchased at Pompei's Ridgedale Wine Liquors at 480 Ridgedale Ave., has yet to claim the prize.Pompei said he expressed disbelief when h ...
Apr 22, 2005, 10:02 am - - Lottery News forum
$165,000 Cash 5 lottery ticket sold in Bayonne, NJ
New Jersey lottery players, check your numbers: a lottery ticket worth about $165,000 was sold in a Bayonne convenience store.Hye Mart Inc., at 224 East 21st St., Bayonne, sold one of the three winning Jersey Cash 5 jackpot tickets for the drawing held on Sunday, New Jersey Lottery officials said. The other two winning tickets were sold in Mercer and Union counties.The owners of three tickets will split the top prize of $495,684.Acting Executive Director Michellene Davis said those three ticket ...
Apr 15, 2005, 10:57 am - - Lottery News forum
NJ may ban smoking in casinos
Acting New Jersey Governor Richard J. Codey may use the power the position he stumbled into when Gov. McGreevey resigned last year to push an aggressive anti-smoking agenda, which would even include banning smoking in New Jersey casinos.Codey's flip-flop on the smoking ban has restaurants, casinos, and small business owners upset. The marketplace not the government should decide if it makes sense to allow people to smoke in certain areas, they contend.The proposal to ban smoking in most public ...
Mar 10, 2005, 8:31 am - - Lottery News forum
NJ interim Gov. nominates new lottery director
Michellene Davis, a lawyer and veteran state policy adviser, has been nominated to be the next executive director of the New Jersey Lottery.Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey announced the nomination Friday. Davis succeeds Virginia Bauer, a 9/11 widow tapped to head the lottery in 2003 and picked by former Gov. James E. McGreevey as commerce secretary in July. William T. Jourdain has been filling in at the lottery since Bauer moved to commerce.Davis will serve as acting executive director, starting Ma ...
Feb 28, 2005, 11:29 am - - Lottery News forum
NJ Teachers just miss $130M Mega Millions lottery jackpot
A group of 82 teachers and staff members at School 10 in Paterson, New Jersey came within one number of winning the $130 million jackpot in last week's Mega Millions game.Instead, they will take home about $2,134 each before taxes, having won the second prize of $175,000. Although disappointed that they can't retire early, the winners who gathered Tuesday to pose for New Jersey Lottery photographs were happy they won anything at all. This is the biggest win I've ever had, gym teacher William Be ...
Jan 26, 2005, 1:18 pm - - Lottery News forum
NJ Lottery may use environmentalist's idea for new game
The Department of Environmental Protection commissioner has promised to discuss with the New Jersey state treasurer an idea for a lottery game to benefit the environment, but he cannot promise that the game will receive approval, according to a letter from the DEP.Bradley M. Campbell, commissioner for the DEP, stated in a letter Wednesday that he favored the idea of such a lottery but budget issues must be carefully considered. Given the current dedication of lottery revenues to support the stat ...
Jan 24, 2005, 10:51 am - - Lottery News forum
NJ lottery player pursues an idea to help the environment
Ed Knorr was standing in line at a convenience store recently, waiting to buy a New Jersey lottery ticket.As he stood there, an idea struck him. What if funds from a state lottery game benefited the environment, aiding specific funding issues for various environmental causes?Knorr, chairman of the Williamstown-based Green Action Alliance, decided to pursue that idea. He devised the Best Dam Lottery Game, a lottery whose proceeds would provide assistance for private well testing to seniors and ...
Dec 28, 2004, 9:57 am - - Lottery News forum
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