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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Isn’t this the same guy who bought dinner for a huge bunch of servicemen in an airport in Ireland or England?
Yes, he gave 400 soldiers $50 each when he saw them at Dublin airport.
Instruct all the managers to buy them and distribute them.
He was NOT gambling! He was merely making a circuitous donation to the California Primary Education Fund. It's for the children, you know.
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It ain’t gambling. It’s for the schools.
My daughter-in-law got 5 out of 6!
The same philanthropist loves our troops. Check out this YouTube clip of him buying our troops overseas something to eat. I think he spent $25000.
http://youtu.be/2LBuyXxOLnc
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/california-powerball-winner-nurse-7-kids-article-1.2497484
It’s a prank
Nice, but, I got a bad feeling this won’t end well.
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It already didn’t end well.
I didn’t win.
Only in California!
L’Chaim!
The article says he bought $18,000 in tickets, not that he had 18,000 employees and at $2 per ticket, he bought 9,000 tickets.
Sounds like a fascinating book. I wish you remembered the title. I’d like to read it.
How much did the employee win?
Does it? Seems he bought more than 9000 tickets.
...purchased nearly 18,000 lottery tickets for all of his employees, one of which happened to contain the winning numbers.
Think that employee might just decide to retire?
Me too, but it's worth four bucks, so I'll trade it in for two tickets on the mere 40 million this round.
5 without the power ball is one million. 4 plus the power ball is $50,000.
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