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Ohio Woman Admits Lying in Lotto Case
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Posted on 01/08/2004 10:02:49 AM PST by AppyPappy
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CLEVELAND (AP) - A woman said through tears Thursday that she lied about losing the winning ticket for a $162 million lottery prize awarded to another woman.
Elecia Battle, 40, of Cleveland, is dropping her lawsuit to block payment of the Mega Millions jackpot to the certified winner, said her lawyer Sheldon Starke.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: gambling; lazy; lottery
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To: mystery-ak
.....so far I only see a charge of filing a false police report. In Texas, a false lottery claim over $200 is a felony.
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posted on
01/08/2004 2:09:04 PM PST
by
dread78645
(Freedom?! What'cha gonna do with freedom?)
To: Stat-boy; sharkhawk; SB00
Thanks for the valuable insight.
I'm going to Atlantic City soon. I'll still give the Martingdale system a try.
Thakns again!
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posted on
01/08/2004 3:22:20 PM PST
by
new cruelty
("But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know." You know?)
To: KarlInOhio
>>Maybe she figured that if she had the money, she would be able to get in enough trouble that Cleveland would have to rehire the cops.<<
Now THAT is funny!!!
To: KarlInOhio
Maybe she figured that if she had the money, she would be able to get in enough trouble that Cleveland would have to rehire the cops. Great line!
To: A2J; smith288
There's little difference between throwing money away that could make your life and the lives of your children happier and taking a substance that takes your life from you. Please. Smith288 is not exactly Pete Rose here -- even $5 a week isn't exactly going to put the children is the poorhouse.
To: AppyPappy
How on earth is a lottery a tax??? All contributors to it are willing.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:04:54 PM PST
by
Tempest
To: AppyPappy
``I'm not a bad person, I'm really not,'' she said. ``Everyone has a past.''
What the hell does that mean? Everyone's been arrested for something sometime?
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:13:09 PM PST
by
ladylib
To: Kenton
Yes, she will, according to news reports -- 30 days to 5 or 6 months in jail. And since she's been convicted before......
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:14:48 PM PST
by
ladylib
To: NYCVirago
Please. Smith288 is not exactly Pete Rose here -- even $5 a week isn't exactly going to put the children is the poorhouse. Some of these people act like the passive lottery playing will end my family as I know it. *sigh*
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:18:12 PM PST
by
smith288
(Secret member of the VRWC elite forces)
To: Tempest
How on earth is a lottery a tax??? All contributors to it are willing.So is a sales tax.
170
posted on
01/08/2004 4:22:29 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: AppyPappy
Sales tax is voluntary?!?!? You mean I could have opted to have the sales tax deducted from my purchases all this time?!?!
You mean that by participating in a sales tax I will be contributing to a pool that is organized by a private corporation that will be submitting my sales tax in with other willing contributors whom will by luck of the draw decide who will recieve the bounty of that sales in return in either one lump sum or 26 annual payments?
Lottery is not a tax. Nor is it legislated in a manner that requires everyone to participate in it.
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posted on
01/08/2004 4:40:53 PM PST
by
Tempest
To: AppyPappy
They should make her buy 10 tickets a week and give them to a charitable organization.
To: AppyPappy
If you have a 1 in 35,000,000 in winning $5, you don't play. But if the return is $55,000,000 then you do. For a proper comparison of risk vs. return, you really need reduce the advertised jackpot substantially. For the MegaMillion game, a $100 million jackpot is paid over a 25 year period, so the cash value is actually slighly more than half that (it depends on the implied interest rate, which is around 4.5% at the moment).
So, if we make things easy and presume it is half the advertised jackpot, the potential return on a $1 investment is actually about $50 million.
However, the odds of winning the MegaMillions jackpot is 1 in 135,145,920. So, the advertised jackpot would hav eto exceed about $270 million for the potential return to exceed the risk.
To: Wright is right!
These giant jackpots have a 100% chance of being given away. Not quite. For it to be 100%, every possible combination of numbers would have to be purchased by one or more players. For the drawing in question, 1,130,918 tickets won various amounts of money for matching the "mega-ball". Since there are 52 balls, a uniform distribution of mega-ball picks would mean about 58.8 million tickets were sold.
However, the odds of winning are 1 in 135 million. So, that means there was only about a 1 in 2 chance that someone would have actually won the jackpot in the last drawing.
Presuming that every set of numbers are chosen more or less randomly (without explicit measures to exhaust all the possibilities), there is always a chance that there is some set of numbers that were not chosen. As you choose more sets of numbers (randomly), the probability gets smaller, but never becomes zero unless you have an infinite number of random choices.
To: AppyPappy
How on earth is a lottery a tax??? All contributors to it are willing.
So is a sales tax. I've decided not to pay the sales tax any more. From now on, I'm going to live on air (the fact that you cannot fatten capons so notwithstanding).
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posted on
01/08/2004 7:17:29 PM PST
by
steve-b
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
She did it 'cause she wanted to "help people?" The only person she wanted to help was herself...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
01/08/2004 7:53:11 PM PST
by
mhking
(Maldición justa.)
To: justlurking
However, the odds of winning the MegaMillions jackpot is 1 in 135,145,920. So, the advertised jackpot would hav eto exceed about $270 million for the potential return to exceed the risk.Yup. With those odds, if you bet on a small jackpot and only got ten or fifteen million after tax, you'd slap your head and say "Well, THAT sure wasn't worth it!". (end sarcasm)
A smaller jackpot can be enough to change your life (being able to quit your job to travel around the country for a few months, for example). As long as you're not betting money you can't afford to lose, and you're the type who buys lottery tickets, you're better off playing it any time the payoff would be enough to set you up for the rest of your life.
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posted on
01/08/2004 8:45:26 PM PST
by
Wissa
To: AppyPappy
``I'm not a bad person, I'm really not,'' she said. ``Everyone has a past.''Here's a riddle: Would Elecia Battle be more likely to vote Democrat or Republican?
Time's up.
To: mhking
I sincerely hope she doesn't get away with this. She's already got a record, wonder if she was on probation? If so, she's going to be going for awhile.
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posted on
01/08/2004 8:52:47 PM PST
by
Bella
To: hunter112
Sorry to say, that even with her past, the news just reported it will earn her no more than 6 months.
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posted on
01/08/2004 8:55:22 PM PST
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
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