Massachusetts father and son found guilty of fraud after cashing in $20M worth of lottery tickets

Comment #11

justadream — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:44:32 GMT

So... you would have to purchase 12,411 tickets every single day for 180 days to find 569 winning tickets over a 6 month period of time. Wow.... I don't play many scratch offs but also never realized how bad the odds were.

Comment #10

Cassie8620 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:17:30 GMT

You're providing a great point, so i agree with the last part insofar as what you're citing here, yep. (per day) that is i wholly agree, on that part.

Comment #9

dickblow — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:29:14 GMT

good send them to jail what does trump got to do with this story dum a** people

Comment #8

Soledad — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:02:04 GMT

For a few dollars more...

Some people have to argue and prove they're right to no end, some people are just right. There's a difference.

Comment #7

noise-gate — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 22:33:04 GMT

*'That's what happens when you push your luck.

Comment #6

Dd2160 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:26:25 GMT

Money, greed and the illegal deeds to get more money must be the root of evil.

Comment #5

Stack47 — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:24:35 GMT

ten-percenting

It's one thing to charge 10% to cash winning tickets under $5000 but once they got into six and seven figures, it's probably much more than 50%. The Jaafar family got greedy and didn't stop when they could have.

They would claim false gambling losses

Apparently the truck loads of losing tickets they had didn't help their case.

Comment #4

Mata Garbo — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:59:09 GMT

The absolute greed and stupidity that runs thru this story is astounding. Across the country there are store owners that will occasionally cash high value winning tickets for people who do not have proper identification or who owe the IRS, child support, etc. But for anyone to cash tickets at the level where you would have to purchase 12,411 tickets per day, every day, is a level of greed that is hard to understand. Most store owners who do this, do it for long time customers, and they do it ver... [ More ]

Comment #3

ecnirP — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:19:27 GMT

These guys are pikers. You should see what our government agencies get away with - and they do so without repercussions

Comment #2

Cassie8620 — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:10:30 GMT

Interesting,and I co-sign your reference to Mr. King of Tax Evasion,

Mr.Illegality himself, Trump.

A local store, when I lived in California,

he would always cash one's check(s) for years(owned a liquor/snacks/lottery store) and also was allegedly cashing some lottery checks, or so we heard and later he and his wife in 2014 had retired nice and quiet is still living senior citizen years, in Orange County, and I never knew you're not supposed to, or can't. Interesting. Either... [ More ]

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Tony Numbers — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:12:08 GMT

They are being charged with a tax evasion scheme, The collection of taxes on winnings is a scheme. You should be allowed to cash other people's tickets, as long as you don't claim the income as a loss. Because of the law that winnings over a certain amount is taxable, any effort to circumvent this rule is a crime. And Donald Trump doesn't have to submit tax forms.

Massachusetts father and son found guilty of fraud after cashing in $20M worth of lottery tickets

Lottery Post — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:00:07 GMT

By Kate Northrop

A father and son duo from Massachusetts was found guilty of fraud this past weekend after the Massachusetts Lottery recognized an unusual number of prize claims tied to the pair within the past decade.

Ali Jaafar, 63, and his son, Yousef Jaafar, 29, both of Watertown, were convicted of multiple counts related to a ten-percenting scheme, in which they would cash winning lottery tickets on behalf of the actual winners to avoid taxes and receive tax refunds.

In August 2... [ More ]