Sohh we playing the Lottery tonight? $530 Million

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Owner Of Store That Sold $447.8 Million Powerball Ticket Gets $1 Million

Owner Of Store That Sold $447.8 Million Powerball Ticket Gets $1 Million
June 12, 2017 8:36 PM

MENIFEE (CBSLA.com) — A liquor store in Riverside County received a $1 million check Monday for selling a winning Powerball ticket worth $447.8 million.

Lottery Director Hugo Lopez presented the check to Albeir Alberre, 64, owner of Marietta Liquor & Deli at 27985 Bradley Road in Menifee.


Marietta Liquor & Deli in Menifee sold a winning Powerball ticket worth $447.8 million. (credit: CBS)

The ticket holder will have the option of taking a lump sum cash payment of $279.1 million or a years-long disbursement of the full amount, taxed at the federal rate of 25 percent, according to the California Lottery.

Whoever bought the winning ticket has not come forward but has a full year from the date of the draw to claim the big prize.

“It could be someone stopping by to get a ticket or someone local, who plays all the time. We have no idea. But either way, we’re really happy for them,” said Matthew Alberee, whose family has owned the store for 27 years.

“It’s an incredible, incredible feeling to be part of this,” he told reporters. “Even though my family won this Powerball, we feel like we won it with the community as a whole with all of Sun City. Because we’re all family here. All the customers, everybody that comes to the store, we know them by name, and we feel as if all of Sun City won, not just our family.”

For the Alberre family, the $1 million bonus is particularly welcome. Albeir Alberre has been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, which has led to some mounting medical bills. One of his sons, Fadi, is hearing-impaired. The family said they hope to use some of the money to help the deaf community.

The family business has previous sold two winning tickets that were worth more than $1 million each.

According to lottery officials, the $447.8 million jackpot is the seventh-largest in Powerball history and the 10th largest in U.S. lottery history.

The winning numbers from Saturday night’s drawing were 20, 26, 32, 38, 58 and the Powerball number 3.

 

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Still no one claims $447M Powerball prize in California

 

[Mr210]

Still no one claims $447M Powerball prize in California

Of course not, I wouldn't be quick to claim either

 

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Edit: nvm, thought the owner won it. though its weird that it says the store sold million dollar winners in the past

Those other winners were probably in the low millions so they probably only got like 10k - 30k . Still that bonus is good for a struggling business owner or a business owner who wants to put money into their business. But now they get 1 million so they're set for life if they invest it right.

 

[lotteryplaya]

A retirement community means the winner is probably. They will be at the press conference with their kids,grandkids and great grandchildren that haven't visited them in years until they won almost half a billion dollars Half a billion dollars and they will be talking about paying for all the young kids college tuition. The kids really want all the new Apple products and a couple of Bentleys. That store is about to be busy with people hoping the luck rubs off from the other big wins.

It Feels Good, Co-Owner Of Sun City Liquor Store That Sold Winning Powerball Ticket Says


MENIFEE, CA - A small liquor store next to a retirement village has vaulted into the history books for selling one of the biggest lottery tickets in U.S. lottery history: a Powerball ticket worth an estimated $448 million before taxes.

"And it feels good," said Matthew Alberre, co-owner of the Marietta Liquor & Deli in Sun City. His store gets $1 million from the state as the lucky retailer.

But Alberre said he has no idea which customer bought the ticket with all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery. Those numbers were 20, 26, 32, 38, 58 and the Powerball number 3.

The owners of Marietta Liquor & Deli in Sun City posed for California Lottery officials on Monday, June 12, 2017. Credit: California Lottery

Alberre said it was the third million-dollar-plus ticket sold at the store, and by far the largest. "We got the call last night at around 9 p.m.," he said on Sunday.

Alberre owns the store with his father, who has owned it for 26 years. And he said his family hadn't yet made plans on how to spend the 1 million dollars of compensation they will be awarded for selling the winning ticket.

The store is located in the midst of Sun City, a retirement community off Interstate 215 in Menifee, about 25 miles south of Riverside.

The nearly half-a-billion dollar jackpot is the seventh largest in Powerball history, and reportedly the tenth largest in U.S. lottery history.

Two tickets with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, were also sold and are worth more than $322,000 each.

The jackpot for Wednesday's drawing will be $40 million.

The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

It Feels Good, Co-Owner Of Sun City Liquor Store That Sold Winning Powerball Ticket

The Powerball game is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands can . Also which 6 states don't participate?

 

[lotteryplaya]

Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands can . Also which 6 states don't participate?

Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah do not sell lottery tickets. In 2013, Wyoming became the 44th state to establish a lottery; the next year, it began, initially offering both Mega Millions and Powerball.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah do not sell lottery tickets. In 2013, Wyoming became the 44th state to establish a lottery; the next year, it began, initially offering both Mega Millions and Powerball.

Huh. Aside from Utah (mormons) I can't see why the others wouldn't participate; less competition though

 

[lotteryplaya]

Huh. Aside from Utah (mormons) I can't see why the others wouldn't participate; less competition though

Alabama,Mississippi,Utah have religions scaring them into the gambling is a sin story. Nevada doesn't want competition for gambling dollars with casinos that is why even daily fantasy like Fanduel is illegal there. Alaska and Hawaii don't mind being behind the connected 48 on progress.

I agree with you on the virgin islands. Tim Duncan's cousins down there in paradise surfing and swimming everyday now they want my lottery jackpots too

 

[lotteryplaya]

Huh. Aside from Utah (mormons) I can't see why the others wouldn't participate; less competition though

Alabama,Mississippi,Utah have religions scaring them into the gambling is a sin story. Nevada doesn't want competition for gambling dollars with casinos that is why even daily fantasy like Fanduel is illegal there. Alaska and Hawaii don't mind being behind the connected 48 on progress.

I agree with you on the virgin islands. Tim Duncan's cousins down there in paradise surfing and swimming everyday now they want my lottery jackpots too

 

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the 1 billion dollar powerball last year, the people who won it resided in riverside county (corona) but bought the ticket in san bernardino county (Chino) and now the winning ticket sold this time was in riverside county (sun city).


whichever county the winner's reside this time is where i will buy the next big 300 million+ ticket

 

[RennisDeynolds]

Alabama,Mississippi,Utah have religions scaring them into the gambling is a sin story. Nevada doesn't want competition for gambling dollars with casinos that is why even daily fantasy like Fanduel is illegal there. Alaska and Hawaii don't mind being behind the connected 48 on progress.

I agree with you on the virgin islands. Tim Duncan's cousins down there in paradise surfing and swimming everyday now they want my lottery jackpots too

Alabama and Mississippi objecting to the lottery due to "morality" . Aren't those two of the most backward ass states .

At Tim Duncan's cousins

 

[lotteryplaya]

Interesting update this adds another chapter to the tragic Abraham Shakespeare story.


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LAKELAND, Fla. — Call it the sequel of Abraham Shakespeare.

On Thursday, Antionette Andrews, the former girlfriend of slain lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, won $1 million on a $20 scratch-off $5 million Monopoly game from a Florida Lottery ticket she bought at a Circle K at 7250 U.S. 98 N in Lakeland.

"I am a little scared," Andrews, 42, said Monday. "It still doesn't seem real."

She's scared about a lot of publicity and because of what happened after Shakespeare won a $17 million lump-sum payment from the Florida Lottery in November 2006.

Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore befriended Shakespeare a couple of years after he won the lottery. By that time, he had given away or lent the majority of his winnings.

Shakespeare was last seen in April 2009 and was reported missing by a family member in November that year. His body was found Jan. 28, 2010, under a concrete slab behind a Plant City home.

Moore, who had bought Shakespeare's Redhawk Bend Drive house, was charged with murder and found guilty in 2012. She is serving a life sentence for the slaying of Shakespeare, who was 43 when he died.

Andrews is the mother of Moses Shakespeare, 16 — Abraham Shakespeare's son. A $1 million trust was set up by Shakespeare for Moses to settle child-support claims. Andrews said Moses will receive the $1 million when he turns 18.

Now, there will be another millionaire in the family.

Or close to it.

Andrews chose to receive a one-time payment of $770,000.

She said she typically spends about $100 each day playing scratch-off games.

Thursday was a light day. She spent only $20 on one ticket.

"I brought it home and started scratching," Andrews said. "I got to the third number and started screaming, hollering and crying."

"Your mama just won a million dollars," she told her 14-year-old daughter.

Andrews called her older son, Raheeme Dumas, 24, about the ticket.

"Make sure it's not $1,000 or $100,000," he said he told her. He believed her only when she sent him a picture of the ticket.

Dumas said his mother has a gambling addiction. But the gambling is far better than her previous drug addiction.

"As long as we have the bills paid, that's what I love to do," Andrews said.

Each day she tells Dumas, "Some day, $20 is going to get me something." She even played the lottery on her return trip to Lakeland from Tallahassee after meeting with Florida Lottery officials about the winning ticket.

Andrews and Dumas said they will likely leave Lakeland in the coming months to start a new life somewhere else. She plans to buy Dumas a new truck and new houses for her and her older daughter.

"That's really all I want," she said.

 

[WheresWallace]

Dude won.

 

[lotteryplaya]

Dude won.

I have seen those before. A few skeptics say he scratches them, pre records it and don't show the big winners so he wont have to pay huge money to the subscribers. Don't know if its true but people are going to be skeptical about everything that involves winning money.