1 - Haitian immigrant
2 - Mother of Seven
3 - Home-made name (Mirlande)
She can claim anything but the facts will tell the true tale.
The details about the ticket such as the time it was sold and if it was sold as one of a group or sold as a single ticket will determine if she is lying or telling the truth.
This kind of activity keeps happening.
There is an easy solution:
If one is appointed to purchase tickets, do so and provide photo copies to all other participants prior to the drawing. That way, each can know what numbers the ‘group’ has.
Bump
Rule #1: If you want to win the lottery, NEVER enter into a lottery pool with other people. Buy your own tickets and sign the back of them as soon as you buy them.
Rule #2: If you join a lottery pool anyway, remember that possession is 9/10th of the law.
Unless she told them before that she was going to buy one of her own and they were bought at a different time she will have to share whether she likes it or not.
it seems better to take annuity payments, if allowed, rather than a lump sum. Defers the taxes into the future, allowing a bigger after-tax return.
But everyone now takes the lump, the argument being more control of funds.
We have an office pool, but the tickets are photocopied and posted in the office. If one of the two folks who usually buy the tickets wins separately, the winner won’t be among the photocopies.
She’ll get sued and lose.. why folks do this is beyond me.
The top prize this week was $213,333,333.33 (because there were three winners splitting $640 million). Is that the expected winnings after taxes from a $213 million win?
Never give your money to a friend to go bet at the casino!!!
Your bet will always lose and the friends will win!!!
Way back when I was a working stiff, I ran a lottery pool of 20 people at $1 per week each, sometimes I bought a few tickets on my own.
Each week, I'd run off 20 copies of the "pool" tickets and give one to each participant before the drawing, thereby preventing anything like this from happening.