Massachusetts father and son sentenced to prison for decade-long $20M lottery ticket scheme

Comment #11

eddessaknight — Wed, 24 May 2023 21:24:46 GMT

Interesting , seems as the two Ali Baba of the' 40 thieves crew' was receiving some preferational treatment as they were written bout for a long time

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CDanaT — Wed, 24 May 2023 13:34:27 GMT

Easier to STAY out of trouble than it is to GET out of trouble.

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Wavepack — Wed, 24 May 2023 03:20:26 GMT

Did he collect loser scratcher cards at the same time he bought winner scratcher cards? If so, he would have of had boxes full of loser scratcher cards to pass a tax audit.

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sully16 — Wed, 24 May 2023 01:43:01 GMT

Mom/Wife may be their most painful punishment, Bruuhahahahahaha.

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Stack47 — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:55:27 GMT

The Jaafar family bought winning tickets at a reduce payout from players that didn't want the lottery to cash them for a number of reasons. Instead of just paying the taxes Ali Jaafar foolishly decided to claim losses on tickets they never bought and were sentenced to five years in prison.

Over the course of eight years, the Jaafar family had cashed in more than 13,000 winning tickets, a phenomenon that statisticians would attribute astronomical odds to.

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skeptic — Wed, 24 May 2023 00:28:31 GMT

Kick them out of the USA - deport the crooks back to their country of origin - are they legally here ? Were they vetted ??

citizens or ? Too many non Americans breaking the rules of law. Why should taxpayers have to subsidize the cost of their imprisonment ?? OUT THEY GO

Comment #5

dickblow — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:24:39 GMT

good give them hard time

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LottoChangeMyL — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:23:02 GMT

How long did they think they would get away with this? Foolishness..

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noise-gate — Tue, 23 May 2023 22:26:29 GMT

* Sun Tzu said it best The wheels of justice grind slowly especially for these two. Clarence the other extremely lucky winner got nailed 5 years ago .Jones must have been asking himself all this time so, when are they going to get to the Jafaars, l know it's not just me. Here's your answer Clarence.

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Tony Numbers — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:24:49 GMT

It also says the Jafaars cheated the IRS and took millions of Americans hard earned dollars. How is that different from what the IRS is doing taking Americans hard earned dollars, threatening government shutdown, and not paying the bills. Facing the debt ceiling ,cutting social security.

Comment #1

Tony Numbers — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:14:57 GMT

State prosecutors estimate that Ali would have had to purchase 12,411 tickets per day to account for 569 winning scratchers over a 6 month period. How do you like that admission of how the games odds are stacked against the players

Massachusetts father and son sentenced to prison for decade-long $20M lottery ticket scheme

Lottery Post — Tue, 23 May 2023 17:22:04 GMT

State's top lottery ticket cashers' attempt to create statewide network of scammers halted for good

By Kate Northrop

A father and son duo from Massachusetts was sentenced to prison in federal court on Monday, concluding the case surrounding an absurd number of prize claims that turned out to be fraudulent.

Ali Jaafar, 63, and Yousef Jaafar, 29, both of Watertown, have received their sentencing five months after being convicted of multiple counts related to a scheme that cheated the I... [ More ]