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US Jewish philanthropist bought winning Powerball ticket for employee
jpost.com ^
| 1/14/16
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Posted on 01/14/2016 3:56:13 PM PST by Nachum
One of the three winners of the record-breaking Powerball lottery jackpot in the United States became wealthy overnight thanks to the generosity of her boss, one of the American Jewish community’s leading philanthropists.
Shlomo Rechnitz, a health care magnate who owns 80 assisted living facilities throughout California, purchased nearly 18,000 lottery tickets for all of his employees, one of which happened to contain the winning numbers.
The unprecedented $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot will be divided among three winning tickets purchased in Tennessee, California and Florida.
Each ticket is worth $528.8 million, lottery officials said in California, one of 44 states plus Washington D.C. and two U.S. territories that sold millions of Powerball tickets.
The winning numbers were 08 27 34 04 19 and Powerball 10, picked in a drawing on Wednesday night. The odds of having the correct numbers: 1 in 292 million.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Florida; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: california; florida; gambling; jewish; philanthropist; powerball; reform; shlomorechnitz; sin; tennessee; winning; wrong
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posted on
01/14/2016 3:56:14 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Nice, but, I got a bad feeling this won’t end well.
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:00:21 PM PST
by
freedomson
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To: Nachum
I had the powerball but no other numbers on my ticket. Guess I should have bought 18,000 tickets. LOL.
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:02:24 PM PST
by
lodi90
To: Nachum
What a great story! Occasionally I’ve bought lottery tix for family stocking stuffers - I think my son won $5 once but that was it. However, if you buy closed to 2000 tix, I guess your giftee has a better chance....
Very nice of this man!
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:02:31 PM PST
by
livius
To: Nachum
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:02:53 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:03:04 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: freedomson
Read an interesting book one time where a rich guy goes through this town and needs help, no one will help him. When he finally gets out and back home he starts sending cash to all of the residents of the town, they destroy their lives with their new found wealth.
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:03:31 PM PST
by
Jolla
To: Nachum
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:07:48 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
To: Nachum
“Giving bonuses can reduce turnover.”
Unless this happens.
To: Pride in the USA
Shlomo Rechnitz, a health care magnate who owns 80 assisted living facilities throughout California, purchased nearly 18,000 lottery tickets for all of his employees, one of which happened to contain the winning numbers. Cool story
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:11:46 PM PST
by
lonevoice
(Life is short. Make fun of it.)
To: Nachum
Gambling is not condoned by Orthodox Judaism.
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:13:10 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy," example of today's politico.)
To: Nachum
WOW how super-nice!
I wish I had a boss like that !!!!!!!
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:15:25 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
(Diff tween D's and R's is that the thatD's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant)
To: familyop
Gambling is not condoned by Orthodox Judaism.
But he didn’t gamble. He just brought presents for his employees.
And I would be willing to bet that he didn’t buy them himself, but had someone buy them for him.
Of course I wondered about the logistics of the buy. How do you buy 18,000 single lottery tickets?
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:28:34 PM PST
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: Nachum
Liberal big donations tend to cause issues around the world...a la Buffett, Gates, etc al.
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:34:28 PM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(Freedom is costly; but Marxism takes all.)
To: chaosagent
How do you buy 18,000 single lottery tickets?How do you distribute them to all 18,000 employees in 4 days?
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:39:42 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: chaosagent
I had a little dreidel. I made it out of clay.
To: livius
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posted on
01/14/2016 4:53:29 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: freedomson
Nice, but, I got a bad feeling this won’t end well.I wonder if the winner will say something antisemitic? I hope not, but that is one way this story can end badly.
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posted on
01/14/2016 5:00:35 PM PST
by
Stepan12
(Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
To: Nachum
Does the ticket seller share in the jackpot?
To: Nachum
Is this a hoax?
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