My sister rubbed out a 5 million dollar instant Lifetime Riches game 540 in Aug 2006. We thought we misplaced it in home or tossed. It was stolen. How?. Someone had a monitor in our home as Sis became left side paralyzed from brain surgery in 2002 and stakes were high. We did not secure it as I was going to take it to be check, but sis had a medical emergency. Woodbridge Police got hold of our ticket, would not take a report as we could not say our home was entered although we later found our alarm system was compromised. When we started pointing the finger our home was arsoned and the firemen enhanced the fire. A false report covered up a wire and solvent. We were robbed, and our home sat undone while we were in a temporary home in another city for 7 months. Our phone was put on a dialer and dialed into 911 for over a month. 6 repair attempt failed but someone in the phone co put our phone on a trunk line used for test calls. We were taken from our temp home almost in handcuffs and given evals and both deemed paranoid with our story and given psych evals. The plan was to commit me and to put her away in long term. I was held illegally for 5 nights while Sis was in the hospital on a one-to-one after suffering a stroke again. Foiled attempts were made to take away our permanent home. Our doors were often left open at night in a vacant home by the contracting co. They left things in our basement. When we returned to it, we were put in without a certif. of occupancy, and over 300 articles were gone including a valuable coin collection. After the fire was out the firemen led me in house without hard hat and ceiling collapsed on my head fracturing my shoulder and I now wear a collar on bad days for a herniated neck disk. The house is still unone and Sis has nightmares. We finally got NJL to admit the ticket existed but after a coverup they refuse to pay us. It was paid out to Woodbridge Police, Sen J F Vitale, whom we had gone to for help, the firemen, post office, sanitation and public works department and to the building department along with neighbors and some relatives and clerks in stores we frequented to give information on us. All 5 million went into a tax sheltered account with some phony names and cash payments. I understand QuickChek tapped danced with them on this. We bought our ticket there and photos of my purchasing tickets were confiscated by police. We are bucking NJL and OPRA records as they covered up. Ours was said never to exist and number of tickets printed and sold were downplayed. However I understand IRS is auditing and investigating this. I was sent a big check unknown to me, less than the $1,750,000 under a settlement less taxes, but police and post office confiscated it fall 2006 before it hit my mail box and gave it to an ex-beau I have not seen in 8 years in NY to cash underground and he was put on the ticket and I understand received a year's payout. Now they are saying I got money and was involved in this lottery fraud. My son chose a quick fix for himself and I understand he also got money instead of going with us to fight it. He was one of original payouts on ticket. I never knew it. He said it was my fire, handle it myself. One of the doctors was on the list to go against my sister if need be. The cops put the good senator on the payout for some clout. Now from the Postal Investigations Unit, I was involved in a mail fraud unknown to me when our home was vacant and mail, checks or whatever were again rerouted though a clearing house set up by a third party. The police admitted unofficially to this and were pressing for a conviction they originated. The PO Investigations Unit said it looked like an organized effort to keep me away from the ticket. My laptop tech dept said someone hacked/seized my computer and all my data was being directed to another computer. I asked the AG's office and the FBI to look into this. NJL does not want to give us the ticket back; save it for the County. We are just two women on SS. Even our furniture was stolen from the warehouse as they wanted to leave us without anything. All we did was rub out a winner. And, almost a million dollars went into an IRA, When I found out about it I asked company to call the Attny Gen's office who trickled it to the Boys and it was promptly removed saying I was under investigation for laundering this money. The police denied knowing where this money was from. Lottery.
We even paid a lawyer a retainer. He made some calls, said we were the winners in their computer, should get the money and it was too big for him. Most lawyers did not want to put their efforts against the police and a state official. The police now even have their own bar where they can go and drink. Most everyone got new cars out of it and we need a handicap van. No justice. Why would the police give us back something they stole 2 years ago? Get on with our lives. We are trying. Everything is gone. Our home is ruined. Even our old photos are missing. Our clothing was burned and we paid for a collapsed roof the ins. co. would not replace after the fire. I still have my sister but we are shadows of ourselves. I could have died when the ceiling collapsed and sis's stroke post fire could have left her worse. We still rub out tickets nightly but the most we have won at one clip is $100.00. The police wish were were out of the way and our neighbors put down their heads. No one wants to return any money. Why would they? Finders (Stealers) Keepers, Losers Weepers. Someone left my sister sitting in her wheelchiar in the rain.
If anyone knows of any printed newspaper articles on this, please contact me. I need them for my plight.
Sorry for any typo's. I need to give Sis her dinner.
Lorraine and Marilyn