28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvanian split second-tier prize
By Kate Northrop
ELMONT, N.Y. — 28 New Yorkers and one Pennsylvania resident claimed and split a $1 million Powerball lottery prize last week, the New York Lottery announced.
29 co-workers all went in on a lottery ticket together as part of an office pool and won $1 million in Powerball, a press release from the Lottery revealed.
The group consists of 28 New York residents spanning Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens counties, plus one member from Pennsylvania.
As part of the lottery pool agreement, a group member purchased a lottery ticket at GNP Priyal on Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont for the Powerball drawing on Dec. 17, 2025.
Although their ticket missed the red Powerball number 17 to win the $1.27 billion jackpot, the group matched the first five regular white ball numbers 25, 33, 53, 62, and 66 to win the game's $1 million second-tier prize — still not too shabby.
Splitting the prize between all group members means each winner received a one-time lump sum payment valued between $21,866 and $23,250 after taxes.
The winners include Huy Van of Elmont, Joseph Mignone of Farmingdale, Mauricio Villegas Flores and Diana Malave of Central Islip, Ricky Chowfen and Mario Fuentes of Uniondale, Jose Rodriguez of Fresh Meadows, John Raboni of New Hyde Park, Giuseppe Todisco of Glen Cove, Ajay Selvan and David Bustillo of Westbury, Raymond Persaud, Veronique Newbold, and Alfredo Rivera of Freeport, Gary Lewis and John VonSalzen of Hicksville, Jose Ramirez of Merrick, Luis Suray of Levittown, Dietmar Tatzel of Babylon, Tomasz Stasiak of West Babylon, Pedro Flores, Christian Garcia, and Serhiy Chuvanov of Lindenhurst, Rodolfo Juarez, Jr. of Commack, Ronald Goodman of Deer Park, Harold Valer Padilla of Bay Shore, Noel Calder of Baldwin, and Stanley Lain of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
The next Powerball annuity jackpot estimate for the drawing on Monday, Feb. 16 currently stands at $154 million.
Powerball is currently offered for sale in 45 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Tickets cost $2 each.
Powerball lottery results are published within minutes of the drawing at USA Mega (www.usamega.com). The USA Mega website provides lottery players in-depth information about the United States' two biggest multi-state lottery games, Mega Millions and Powerball.
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Congratulations 🎉 on the win.
Yes, I know after both federal and NY taxes the take home will be at a minimum $17,965 for each of the winners, but, 17K is a nice boost.
The saying goes "Half a loaf 🍞 is better than none"
Good thing none of the players were from Manhattan...they'd get socked with another tax on top of NY tax---so wrong!
Before taxes $35k.. it depends how they use the money.
they better not be from Mahattan. thats only enough for 10 months. if I were to get that amt, pay off what I could
A really good example of how the third dollar is worth playing.
Not enough for a new car. Not even close. Maybe a 2020 with 119k miles on it.
pay off things they don't need.
They are all from Long Island, except the one from Pa.
Congrats!!
Interesting that it doesn't say where they all work?
Also the communities which they all live in will benefit as they will spend some of not alot of that money there.
The owner of the business will find that the workers will tend to become less cooperative and absenteeism is going to increase also. I would fire the lot of them en masse and replace them with workers who will be more fearful of their jobs.
If you win, sure. What about the other 11 million dollars that didn't?
Because they're $23,000 richer? Wow.... Lol
Don't know if you're insinuating the NY has Double Play on Powerball!
They don't!
Yes, they will refuse to work overtime, take long lunches not caring if they are docked 15 minutes, start to criticize their supervisors or continue to. All they will be thinking about is playing more lotteries, checking jackpots and results and generally becoming disinterested in their reason for being at work.
They are not rich. Half of their winnings will be used to pay their property taxes.
Yes, but the replace them with illegal immigrants that are willing to work for HALF of the groups former salaries.
You sound to me like you'd be a good fit for a job in Private Equity.
G5
I'm obviously against office or workplace lottery pools. The owner of businesses are probably not all that enthralled with the idea of one either. This one was relatively harmless amount wise per winner so no one will quit over it at least. But the interest in this activity will still dominate the workplace discussions over anything related to what the company is doing.
They might talk about it for a couple of days, then they will move on to other office gossip or whatever else they normally talk about the same as people do at every other job.
One things for certain, with your views on work place lottery pools if your workers did hit a huge jackpot you probably won't be getting a share of it.
Not true. When I actually had a job I ran the lottery pools at work which is one reason why I no longer have a job. Or maybe it was the football pools I also ran or the harness race program I bought on the way to work and made copies on the offices copy machine to hand out to everyone so they could study that nights races back when harness racing was a viable and popular venue. (1968-1975). I wasn't even sure what my company actually did to make money.
"They are all from Long Island, except the one from Pa. "
Fun fact: Queens and Brooklyn are both on Long Island, but are also two of the five boroughs of NYC. One of t hem will get to pay a NYC income tax along with the state and federal taxes.
"I would fire the lot of them en masse "
Just because a company is big enough to have at least 29 employees doesn't mean the managers are geniuses, but lucky for the employees they probably aren't morons that would fire somebody because of their own inability to understand the significance of a 25k windfall.
"Yes, but the replace them with illegal immigrants that are willing to work for HALF of the groups former salaries.
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The managers are probably also not morons who would only think of that because the current employees had an extra 25k.