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We are talking about the real MegaMillions lottery tickets here.
The 67-year-old maintenance man purchased the Mega Millions ticket at the Lucky Food Store in Grand Prairie last May and didn’t discover until months later that it was a million-dollar winner. By then, Pankaj Joshi, a clerk at the store, had cashed in the ticket and left the country.
But the Travis County district attorney’s office was able to track down $360,000 in Joshi’s bank accounts and recovered another $30,000 from one of his relatives and a friend. The district attorney also is trying to freeze $290,000 that was wired to a bank in Nepal.
In all, the $1 million ticket was worth $750,000 under the instant payout option. Willis and his attorneys remain hopeful he will be able to recover most of his winnings.
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Maybe we should start signing at the back of the tickets after we bought them. Its safer when we have to “hand-over” the tickets to someone.