Two get probation in scheme to avoid taxes on lottery win

Comment #24

rdgrnr — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:24:09 GMT

The judge could have given them 3 years in prison but he didn't.

He gave them 2 years probation.

Ooooooooh, scary!

That'll certainly scare all the criminals away from lottery crime!

Somewhere, the Patels are laughing.

Comment #23

haymaker — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:18:01 GMT

so you have 2, pick5 games,learn something every day.

Comment #22

malie10 — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:56:19 GMT

For the 4 digit, it's a set payout.

0.50 str8 gets you 2,500

boxed for 0.50 get you:

100.00 eg 1234

200.00 eg 1123

400.00 eg 1122

600.00 eg 1112

On our pick 5, cash five game (5/43), it's different as well, depending on the number of winners for 4/5

On our pick 5, treasure hunt game (5/30), it's set at 100.00 for 4/5

Comment #21

haymaker — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:48:30 GMT

i don't play the 3s 4S, did't realize you could figure the payout ahead of time,can't do this on pick 5 sometimes the 2nd prize is $542.00,sometimes it's $611.00 or somesuch, maybe his did't figure right before he bought tickets

Comment #20

malie10 — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:31:25 GMT

Anyone wonder why he played the 1477, or how often he spends $360 or whatever at a time? I am stuck on playing the sum of 5 right now, boxed. You can box 0.50-5.00 on a ticket, so I box them for 1.50 per ticket to avoid going over $600, should it hit (4 of them are a double number, paying $200). The two sums that would pay $600 boxed(two triples), I play them three times for 0.50. I figure my stuff out before I play big! Nothing goes right for that family LOL

Comment #19

haymaker — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:12:38 GMT

yea, rj, he would need 3 times as many,360 x 3=1080 tickets to get the win down to $ 492... and he would have to run all over the place buying them at diff. times and places, and if the win was a little bigger that time. curses...foiled again. just pay the taxes.

Comment #18

haymaker — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:45:50 GMT

something strange here, did't notice on the first read. he won 532000 w/ 360 tickets #ed 4177. 532000 div. by 360 =1477.7777 the rounded #1477 is a box of the winning # while the post decimal #s are all 7s, a lucky #.

Comment #17

sully16 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:27:54 GMT

Comment #16

haymaker — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:49:53 GMT

family re-union moved to jail.

Comment #15

HoLeeKau — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:43:15 GMT

The guy just won over a half million dollars, and he has the cajones to ask the judge to understand he only committed the crime out of financial hardship. Geez what a moron. If he's that bad at understanding and handling money, it was all gonna be gone in a few months anyway.

Comment #14

surimaribo24 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:50:19 GMT

another patel . patel allert. they should join together and make a store call patel brothers2 . which actualy exsist and sell anything beside lottery .

Comment #13

sully16 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:01:59 GMT

The Patel family re-union has been cancelled, due to the fact they are in jail, hehehehe.

Comment #12

dallascowboyfan — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:26:20 GMT

Patel, Patel, Patel, oh those pesty Patels........

Comment #11

sully16 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:18:27 GMT

rotflmao, They never learn.

Comment #10

rdgrnr — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:58:57 GMT

I'm glad it wasn't Harddik Patel again!

That reminds me of a Confucius proverb. Confucius say: Man who walk through airport turnstile sideways going to Bangkok.

Comment #9

RJOh — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:26:34 GMT

This player will be smarter next time and I have little doubt about there being a next time because if he had enough faith to put $360 on a pick4 number and win once, he'll do it again.

Comment #8

faber98 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:24:52 GMT

just having the name patel should get you 2 1/2 years from the getgo. i suppose jail wouldn't get the state their money so restitution it is...

Comment #7

joker17 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:06:30 GMT

No doubt. With that kind of circumstance, you couldn't get away with it. I'd be happy turning the tickets in the office and sleeping peacefully at night...

These people, both the players and store owners need to visit LP. You can learn a lot in the lottery news forum, and avoid the traps....

Comment #6

joker17 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:02:36 GMT

How many store owners named Patel are there

Comment #5

time*treat — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:02:18 GMT

In this particular case, if nothing else, the time-codes would have indicated that the tickets were all bought in too short a span to have been bought by different people.

Comment #4

dr65 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:41:26 GMT

Oh no...busted in PA. It's becoming epidemic.

Pay the taxes and do the right thing, please people. Don't steal or cheat or launder.

The Patel name is being drug through the mud.

Comment #3

RJOh — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:40:59 GMT

So much for that scheme of only playing multiples of pick3 and pick4 because as long as each ticket wins less than $600, you can avoid paying taxes on them.

Comment #2

haymaker — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:40:53 GMT

whoa...these ppl.... are bringing a lot of pride to their name .

Comment #1

time*treat — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:32:30 GMT

Pennsylvania convenience store owner Charig R. Patel ...

Two get probation in scheme to avoid taxes on lottery win

Lottery Post — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:25:33 GMT

A pair of men who conspired to hide from the tax man that one of them won $500,000 in the lottery were each sentenced to two years of probation Tuesday.

Pennsylvania convenience store owner Charig R. Patel and frequent lottery player Kendrick D. Francis each admitted to conspiracy to defraud the IRS and making a false statement on a tax return in March and faced up to three years in a federal prison.

However, attorneys for each of the men argued to Chief District Judge Gregory M. Sleet tha... [ More ]