Store owner jailed one year for stealing $5.7M lottery ticket

Comment #16

sully16 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:04:53 GMT

all he got was a year? wow , Canada is way to nice.

Comment #15

tiggs95 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:49:48 GMT

You can look up on the state lottery site to find out how much the ticket is worth..All you need to know is how to read..Good luck..

Comment #14

rdgrnr — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:01:37 GMT

Only a year for 5.7 million dollars?

Is it the same for bank robbery up there? Would you only get a year for robbing a bank of that much?

And Canadian prisons are probably like resorts compared to the joints down here too, right?

Hmmm...

Comment #13

HaveABall — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:50:11 GMT

Oh tiggs95 ... some folks become lottery gamblers, like us, via receiving tickets as birthday/holiday gifts -- they eventually learn by joining blogs like LotteryPost.com

Comment #12

tiggs95 — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:55:32 GMT

If a person does not know how murch thier ticket is worth when they go to cash it they should not be buying lottery tickets..

Comment #11

Tenaj — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:43:42 GMT

I wonder why the penalties for lottery related theft are so light. Surely he should have gotten more than one year in jail which he probably won't have to serve but a few months.

Comment #10

Kobra — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:49:00 GMT

yea ok, he's sorry... he is sorry he got caught. prime example of why you should check, double, and triple check your own tickets

Comment #9

Lady_g98 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:34:30 GMT

he gonna pay all that money back to the customer always member to sign on the back of your lottery ticket

Comment #8

maringoman — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:31:11 GMT

His greed caused the poor lady to lose a long lasting friendship, surely that in itself deserves more harsher punishment. Perhaps a bill board with his mugshot and a description of his despicable acts should be put up. I'm jus sayin

Comment #7

Nino224 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:22:42 GMT

Hopefully the poor lady got to enjoy the money before she went.

I'm sure he'll live to be 100.

Comment #6

HaveABall — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:43:13 GMT

What a guy

Comment #5

jeffrey — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:32:05 GMT

I think they should cut off his walnuts. That would be a lesson well learned by both him and others. This happens way too often.

Comment #4

ThatScaryChick — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:46:08 GMT

A former convenience store owner who cheated a customer out of a $5.7 million lottery ticket has been sentenced to a year in jail.

He only gets a year for stealing 5.7 million dollars? I would think that stealing that much money would be seen as a bigger felony.

Comment #3

s5thomps — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:47:32 GMT

A WINNER NEVER CHEATS, AND A CHEATER NEVER WINS

Comment #2

dpoly1 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:41:44 GMT

Good !

All crooks should go to jail !

I hope that the money was taken from him !

Waiting for my lottery win tonight ........... I will check the ticket myself

Comment #1

luckyshoes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:40:08 GMT

mmmmmmmm............... a fool and sombody elses money

Store owner jailed one year for stealing $5.7M lottery ticket

Lottery Post — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:31:01 GMT

A former convenience store owner who cheated a customer out of a $5.7 million lottery ticket has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Hafiz Malik, 63, sat quietly as Ontario provincial court Justice Rebecca Shamai pronounced sentence Tuesday at Old City Hall courthouse in downtown Toronto.

Dressed in a black T-shirt and grey slacks, the white-haired Malik listened intently to the judge's reasons.

In December, Malik had pleaded to fraud.

He admitted to tricking a customer, Lorraine Teich... [ More ]