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KY Floyd

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Jul 6, 2016, 12:23 am

The CA lottery and the media are starting to get curious, but it looks like the lottery probably won't be using a picture to out the winner:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-powerball-chino-hills-ticket-mystery-winner-20160701-snap-story.html
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Quote: Originally posted by KY Floyd on Jul 6, 2016
The CA lottery and the media are starting to get curious, but it looks like the lottery probably won't be using a picture to out the winner:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-powerball-chino-hills-ticket-mystery-winner-20160701-snap-story.html

The ticket owner is someone who never plays the lottery except when the jackpots are high and checked the wrong drawing. They thought it was a loser and threw it out.

The ticket owner was mugged before the drawing took place. The thief took the cash and credit cards and threw the wallet with the ticket in a dumpster some where.

Before you play there are 2 choices to make. Low sum or high sum and consecutive pair or no consecutive pair. Choose correctly and you go from 120 combos down to 30. Not a bad starting point.
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Jul 6, 2016, 11:10 am

The winner lives in Chino Hills. A very wealthy community so the winner will be patient. The winner does not need the extra dough.

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Jul 8, 2016, 5:38 pm

Or they are waiting to legally change their name, grow a beard and hair, claim the ticket under that guise, then change back after. JK.

It sucks. I hope the winner finds his/her ticket.
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Jul 19, 2016, 12:52 pm

I heard the winning couple finally claimed their prize,
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Jul 19, 2016, 1:47 pm

The couple came forward Marvin and Mae Acosta. They choose not to do a press conference and have setup a trust. I'm not sure how they pick there numbers maybe quick pick. Congrats to them.
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Jul 19, 2016, 1:52 pm

Wow... They took six months to come forward... Got their ducks in a row... Good for them!

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Quote: Originally posted by MotoX2 on Jul 19, 2016
The couple came forward Marvin and Mae Acosta. They choose not to do a press conference and have setup a trust. I'm not sure how they pick there numbers maybe quick pick. Congrats to them.

Smart choices.
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Jul 19, 2016, 3:42 pm

Good timing, media is full of the GOP & Dem Convention political circus.
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Jul 19, 2016, 4:18 pm
- California Couple Claims Prize in Record Powerball Jackpot
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jul 19, 2016, 2:32 PM ET
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A California couple has claimed a $528.8 million share of a record Powerball jackpot from January and pledged to give much of it to charity.

Flanked by security, Marvin and Mae Acosta went to a state lottery office in Van Nuys on Friday to claim their winnings from the record $1.6 billion Powerball drawing, lottery officials disclosed Tuesday.

In a statement, the Acostas said they are dedicating nearly all of the prize money to a trust and charities.

"We are thankful and blessed for the rare gift that has been placed in our care," the statement said.

Traverso described the Acostas as a younger couple with two children. No additional details were released because they requested privacy.

The couple will take their winnings in a cash option totaling $327.8 million before federal taxes, lottery officials said.

The Acostas bought their ticket six months ago at a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. It was one of three winning tickets sold for the Jan. 13 drawing. Winners in Florida and Tennessee came forward within days to claim their prize money.

Word that one of the winning tickets was sold in California brought excited crowds to the 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, a normally quiet community of 77,000 people nestled among rolling hills.

Gawkers crowded the store and parking lot, mugging for TV cameras. Some chanted "Chino Hills! Chino Hills!" in celebration of the city's sudden celebrity.

The Tennessee winners were a small-town couple, John and Lisa Robinson of Munford, who also took the lump sum payment. They said they didn't intend to stop working — John as a warehouse supervisor and Lisa at a dermatologist's office — and would stay in their one-story house. They planned to pay off their mortgage and their daughter's student loans.

The Florida winners, David Kaltschmidt and Maureen Smith of Melbourne Beach, took the lump sum as well. Kaltschmidt said he would retire from his job as a manufacturing engineer but wouldn't otherwise change his day-to-day life.

Smith, who identified herself as a homemaker, said she was concerned that winning might make her less friendly because of all the worrying.
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Jul 19, 2016, 4:48 pm

Quote: Originally posted by Rexer90 on Jul 19, 2016
Good timing, media is full of the GOP & Dem Convention political circus.

Or, as I like to call it:
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Jul 19, 2016, 4:56 pm

Quote: Originally posted by mikeintexas on Jul 19, 2016
Or, as I like to call it:

Good one,

but a dog and pony show is much more enjoyable.

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Jul 19, 2016, 7:41 pm

Quote: Originally posted by haymaker on Jul 19, 2016
Good one,

but a dog and pony show is much more enjoyable.

A dog and pony show!

Marvin and Mae Acosta must have hired some smart help. They created a Trust and declined the press availability and the photo opportunity.

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Jul 19, 2016, 7:53 pm

I have read that the first year as a lottery winner you may be able to save in taxes by giving more to charity and then deducting it. The first year's income will be larger than the following years. I will bring this up with a tax attorney.

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Jul 20, 2016, 1:17 am

Quote: Originally posted by music* on Jul 19, 2016
I have read that the first year as a lottery winner you may be able to save in taxes by giving more to charity and then deducting it. The first year's income will be larger than the following years. I will bring this up with a tax attorney.

There's some kind of limit on how much you can give in any year as a % of your income, but you could also stick a big fat wedge of your jackpot lump sum into a charitable trust where I think you have to donate a minimum of 2% a year

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