It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: AlanS on January 27, 2012, 04:52:05 PM
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Here's the story. A person or group has the winning ticket for $14 million. They form a trust and hire an attorney to collect the money. The lottery company tells the lawyer the law states you must collect the money in person for publicity purposes. The lawyer tells his client(s). They tell the lottery company to pound sand. They would rather remain anonymous than have the money. Then you read this:
Now, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and attorney general's office have issued a joint statement saying they have opened an investigation into the case.
Now it doesn't state WHY they are investigating. No laws were broken. They didn't except the money. So why and what are they investigating?
Here's the link (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/mystery-winner-of-14m-iowa-lottery-withdraws-claim-rather-than-steps-forward/1)
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Apparantly the buyer doesn't want the pub.....but I don't see any law broken. The lottery should dump the money back into the pot. An investigation? For what?
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Nobody walks away fron 14 mil. Something stinks with these guys if it is guys and not a person that owes tons to the government in taxes and is dodging the feds.
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Early in the lottery days, it was common for winners to form corporations and have a lawyer collect the winnings. The publicity from winning has a tendency to bring out the vultures from all directions. Since there were no publicity shots of the winners and the lottery boards couldn't brag, they changed the rules soon after. I'm sure there's a price I would go through the stunt, I'm just not sure what that price would be.
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...I'm sure there's a price I would go through the stunt, I'm just not sure what that price would be.
1 million dollars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw#)
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The lawyer cannot present the ticket for verification on behalf of his clients?
I'm sure the lottery officials love trotting out smiling faces for the press to see and ask all the dumb questions about what they'll do with the money.
Me personally, while I hate the idea of everybody I've ever known and many I may have never known pestering me, I would go along with it and when asked the stupid questions I would say "it's none of your fvcking business"! Press conference over, where's my check, see ya later.
Then I'd burn my past and disappear.
Perhaps these people have good reasons not to come out, maybe they're crooks, maybe they used to be crooks and are in WitSec, who knows. Nothing to investigate though, so why would the state waste money in the effort? But they obviously suspect something is fishy with these folks, and once on the hunt, some dogs don't rest till something is cornered.
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Don't buy the lottery ticket if you don't want the hassle that goes along with it people.
jeeesh