Recent San Diego transplant
Steps forward to claim lottery
By Angelica Martinez (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer
3:47 p.m. January 7, 2009
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SAN DIEGO – The $47 million winner of the CaliforniaLottery's Mega Millions was all smiles Wednesday afternoon when he claimed his winnings and was introduced at a news conference as Todd Moitz, state lottery officials said. A 24-year-old former Farmer's Insurance agent, Moitz said he's overwhelmed by the news and hasn'tyet decided what to do with the windfall. He has elected the cash option, which is worth $32 million before taxes. “Cash is king,” Moitz said, explaining his choice for the payment option. Moitz bought the ticket at a 7-Eleven on Cass Street near Loring Street in Pacific Beach, where he lives. The winning numbers: 2, 11, 19, 21, 34 and the Mega number 38, were announced Friday night. He said he typically pays $2 for random numbers right before a drawing and didn't expect to win. Moitz said he discovered his riches Saturday morning when he checked the numbers and did “a double-take.” “You never actually expect (the numbers) to actually land,” he said. Moitz said he pounded on his roommate's door and had him verify the numbers matched those drawn. Since then, Moitz said he's been texting and calling relatives to share the news. Despite his openness, Moitz declined to state his dating status. The University of Delaware graduate who moved here in August chuckled when he said he had studied business. Flanked by his parents and sister during the news conference, Moitz said his mind is running “a mile a minute.” Regardless of what he does with the money, he said his family would be taken care of. He also promised to continue visiting the 7-Eleven where he purchased the winning ticket. The store is also expected to receive $230,000. Store owner Palvinder Hundal, who has owned the store for three years, said it's the first time a winning number was purchased there.
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$207 Mega Millions Jackpot Won by 15 Ohioans
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
PIQUA, Ohio — Fifteen Ohioans claimed their shares of the $207 million Mega Millions jackpot Wednesday with one man dreaming of his first new vehicle, another planning to start a scholarship in his late son's name and a woman thinking about retirement.
Fourteen employees of the city of Piqua were joined by one relative of a city worker as they finalized their claim at the Dayton regional office of the Ohio Lottery.
"We played and played and played. It came through," said Richard Donnelly, 58.
The winners chose the cash option. After tax withholdings, 14 winners will each receive a check for approximately $6.3 million. Donnelly bought two shares of the winning ticket and will receive a check for approximately $12.6 million. Thomas Hill Jr., 72, the father-in-law of an employee, said he and his wife plan to set up a scholarship in the name of their son, who died of cancer at age 27. "The first thing I'm going to buy I never had — a brand new vehicle," said Loyal Davis Jr., 41.
Donnelly said he'd keep working at the city traffic department until someone else learns the job. He plans to buy his 90-year-old mother a new car.
The group purchased its winning ticket, a $5 wager using the Lottery's auto-pick feature, at a Kroger store in Piqua, about 30 miles north of Dayton. "I've always said I'll never get to retire even when I'm old enough," said Jolaine Routson, 46. "So this is just like a new thought process."
The win marks Ohio's third jackpot of the year in the multi-state Mega Millions game. It's the state's third-largest jackpot win since joining the game in 2002.
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One Digit From A $47 Million Win!
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The Lottery Alliance Pool #0107-011709 missed winning the $47 Million California SuperLOTTO Plus jackpot on 01/14/09 by just one digit. The number combination matched four (4) of the primary balls and the Mega Ball. Nobody won the jackpot, so it rolled up to $50 Million, and the pool will roll its winnings into more chances to win the big one. Members of the Lottery Alliance don't just play to win, they Plan to Win!
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Connecticut Man Buys $10 M Winning Lotto Ticket
On The Day Of His Death And Makes Widow Rich
Sun Jan 4, 2009 (AP) DANBURY, Conn. – On the day that Donald Peters died, he unknowingly provided financial security for his wife of 59 years and their family with the purchase of a lottery ticket that won $10 Million.
Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury.
On Friday, his widow cashed in one of the tickets: a $10 million winner which, in her grief over her husband's death, she had put aside and almost discarded before recently checking the numbers.
"I'm numb," Charlotte Peters, 78, said at Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Rocky Hill.
Donald Peters usually bought the tickets for 10 weeks at a stretch, so the winning ticket he bought Nov. 1 for the Dec. 2 drawing was among several that Charlotte Peters put aside as she, their three children and two grandchildren coped with his sudden death.
"I was in the grocery store and I had it checked and they told me I was a winner," she said. "I had no idea how much it was."
She said she thought she had won $6 million but was surprised to learn from lottery officials she'd won $10 million.
Charlotte Peters has 60 days to decide whether to take a $6 million pre-tax lump sum payment or stretch the winnings into 21 yearly payments of almost $477,300 each. She does not yet know what she will do with the money.
"I've always wanted a Corvette, but I don't think I'll buy one. I'll stick to a small car. I might go to Mohegan Sun," she said, referring to the casino in Connecticut. "I'm going to go home and sit and think."
The Peters children think their father would have appreciated the irony. "He'd be very mad, he just passed away and she won a lot of money," said Brian Peters, one of the couple's three children. "He'd say, 'Figures!'"
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