Half Billion Dollar Lottery

[Tupac Shakur]

I don't see any joke. All I see is a completely off topic, tldr post from an illiterate fake Texan.

[The Mad Monk]

IT'S HAPPENED AGAIN.

Md. woman won't share $105M lotto jackpot with McD's co-workers
* Pool gal: $105M is all mine
By EVAN SERPICK and WILLIAM FARRINGTON in Baltimore and BOB FREDERICKS in NY

Last Updated: 9:46 AM, April 2, 2012

Posted: 2:02 AM, April 2, 2012

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Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald’s into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.

Workers at the fast-food joint who pooled their cash for tickets are furious at a colleague who claims she won with a ticket she bought for herself and has no intention of sharing.

“We had a group plan, but I went and played by myself. [The ‘winning’ ticket] wasn’t on the group plan,” McDonald’s “winner’’ Mirlande Wilson 37, told The Post yesterday, insisting she alone bought one of the three tickets nationwide that will split a record $656 million payout.


William Farrington
MONEY TROUBLES: Mirlande Wilson (above) claims she purchased a winning Mega Millions ticket for herself and won’t share it with co-workers in her pool, including Davon Wilson and Suleiman Osman Husein.

William Farrington
MONEY TROUBLES: Mirlande Wilson claims she purchased a winning Mega Millions ticket for herself and won’t share it with co-workers in her pool, including Davon Wilson and Suleiman Osman Husein (above, from left).
see more videos “I was in the group, but this was separate. The winning ticket was a separate ticket,” the single mother of seven said as she and her fiancé left her home in the squalid Westport neighborhood to attend church.

The Haitian immigrant refused to show what she said was the winning ticket, claiming she had it hidden in another location and would present it to lottery officials today.

Pressed as the day went on, she became more cagey.

“I don’t know if I won. Some of the numbers were familiar. I recognized some of [them],’’ she said. “I don’t know why’’ people are saying differently. “I’m going to go to the lottery office [today]. I bought some tickets separately.”

With winning tickets also sold in Illinois and Kansas, a single Maryland winner would get an after-tax lump sum of $105 million, or $5.59 million a year for 26 years.

If Wilson won, and if it was with a pooled work ticket, the situation would be shockingly similar to that of New Jersey lottery louse Americo Lopes, who tried to screw five former colleagues after hitting a $24 million jackpot before a jury ordered him to spread the wealth.

Wilson’s co-workers — who make little more than $7.50 an hour — are sizzling with anger over the notion.

“She can’ t do this to us!” said Suleiman Osman Husein, a shift manager and one of 15 members in the pool. “We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!”

A man identifying himself as the boyfriend of a McDonald’s manager named Layla, who was part of the pool, said Wilson bought tickets for the group at the 7-Eleven in Milford Mill, where the winning ticket was sold.

The group’s tickets — along with a list of those who contributed to the pool — were left in an office safe at the burger joint, said the man, who gave only his first name, Allen, as he stood next to Layla. She declined to comment.

Then, late Friday, before the night’s drawing, the owner of the McDonald’s, Birul Desai, gave Wilson $5 to buy more tickets for the pool on her way home from work, and she went back to the 7-Eleven and bought them, Allen said.

Wilson took those tickets home with her, Allen said.

But Wilson insisted yesterday that she had bought the second batch with an unidentified pal — not for the pool — and that the winning ticket was among them.

A day earlier, a delirious Wilson had called co-workers to break the news — tellingly used the first-person singular.

“I won! I won!” she cried, Allen said.

Another colleague, Davon Wilson, no relation, said he was there when Mirlande Wilson called.

“She said, ‘Turn on the news.’ She said she had won. I thought it was a joke or something. She doesn’t seem like a person who’d do this,” he said.

Allan said he and Layla went to Wilson’s home and pounded on the door for 20 minutes until she finally came out.

“These people are going to kill you. It’s not worth your life!” Allen said he told her.

“All right! All right! I’ll share, but I can’t find the ticket right now,” she finally said, according to Allen.

Yohannes Michael, a clerk at the 7-Eleven where Wilson bought the tickets, expressed doubts about her story when he said yesterday that lottery officials have reviewed the store’s video and believe that a man bought the winning ticket. Lottery rep Carole Everett would not confirm that.

Reached at his Fairfax, Va., home, Desai, the McDonald’s owner, declined to comment except to say, “It’s all bulls--t, if you ask me. It’s speculation.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/what_mega_mess_wHA9HVdfxA1VDSqWn58KtJ

[SlowwHand]

What a skank.

[Uncle Sparky]

... and so it begins. I expect their to be many law suits. I've seen the above happen before; the other usual pool problem being a worker who doesn't pool every week claim s/he was part of the winning pool, and the other members refuse to share.

[Dinner]

I'd never go into a pool just because some ***** will always try to steal all the money.

[kittenOFchaos]

What a skank.

***** be crazy.

[Wezil]

... and so it begins. I expect their to be many law suits. I've seen the above happen before; the other usual pool problem being a worker who doesn't pool every week claim s/he was part of the winning pool, and the other members refuse to share.

That's my approach.

I don't contribute to our office pool but have a good lawyer on standby.

[Wezil]

I'd never go into a pool just because some ***** will always try to steal all the money.

I'd never go into a lottery pool because I have better ways to waste my money.

[The Mad Monk]

I'd never go into a pool just because some ***** will always try to steal all the money.

I'd never go into a pool just because some ***** will always try to drop a Baby Ruth in there.

[The Mad Monk]

Maryland case has gone total bat****, BTW.

[rah]

All it takes is having someone photocopy the tickets in the pool along with a list of participants. It's not that difficult. I prefer not to join pools but when your staff is in a pool I wouldn't want to be holding the bag if they won and all walked, so I would get into those pools.

[The Mad Monk]

That's not the problem.

The problem is that she claims to have hidden the winning ticket in the McDonald's. Somewhere.

[rah]

ah I didn't read the updated version. The original was her claiming that the winning ticked was not one she purchased for the group.

[The Mad Monk]

That still applies. This came out at the news confence when she appeared without the ticket. With a lawyer who says he hasn't confirmed the ticket.

[The Mad Monk]

Maryland Mega Millions 'winner' appears, but mystery deepens

Published April 04, 2012
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"I have not seen the ticket, nor do I want to see the ticket," said attorney Edward Smith, right, as Marlinde Wilson stood behind him.
The Maryland Mega Millions mystery only got more confusing after a woman who claimed to be one of three winners of a record prize appeared with her lawyer -- and without the ticket.

"I have not seen the ticket, nor do I want to see the ticket," said attorney Edward Smith, as Marlinde Wilson, who was an hour late for the news conference, stood behind him. She did not speak.

"We believe it to be a legitimate claim," Smith continued. "When it is time to present the ticket or whatever it is that needs to be presented to the lottery commissioner, I am sure that we will be there."

Meanwhile, Maryland State Lottery Director Stephen Martino announced a 2 p.m. press conference on Thursday at which officials said he would discuss the "status of the winning ticket," among other things. Although scant information was given, that event will likely be more illuminating than the news conference Smith gave on Wednesday.

Smith lectured the media gathered in his cramped office and told them not to pester his client, who bought tickets for a pool of workers at a Baltimore-area McDonald's but claimed the winning ticket she holds was bought separately.

"God knows, by next week or next month, this will all be over and we will still be friends," Smith said.

Wilson, 37, earlier told the New York Post the winning ticket was stashed somewhere in the McDonald's restaurant where she works.

“I left my ticket there, and it’s somewhere safe that only I know about,” she told the newspaper through a Creole-speaking translator.

"I don't think she wants her 15 minutes of fame," Smith said. "We just want y'all to go home."

A Maryland Lottery spokeswoman told FoxNews.com that no one has claimed the record-setting prize as of Wednesday afternoon. Three winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Kansas and Illinois. Of those states, only the winner in Illinois must be identified.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/04/mega-millions-winner-105m-ticket-stashed-in-mcdonalds/