A boss in a $500,000 lotto fight says his employee sneakily pocketed the prize after vowing to split the winnings.
Jose Quinteros is suing Jorge Rivera Palma and his employee's nephew Marco Corado Erazo for half the winnings after a dispute about who had the rights to the winnings amid a fight over four purchased tickets.
The winning "AR 200X" scratch-off ticket was purchased on February 2, 2023, in Rogers, Arkansas, at the Quick Mart. Both Quinteros and Palma agreed Palma physically purchased the winning ticket - however Palma claims that Quinteros gave him money to buy two tickets, one of them the contested winning ticket, while Quinteros bought his own two tickets.
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He maintains that the two scratched off all four tickets together, but Palma's winning ticket was only his. However Quinteros' claims he and Palma bought a total of four tickets together using money from winning tickets the pair had bought together earlier - with one winning the top $500,000.
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Quinteros' claims he and Palma bought a total of four tickets together using money from winning tickets the pair had bought together earlier - with one winning the top $500,000 (Quinteros v Palma Lotto Lawsuit)Quinteros claims that Palma asked his boss to bring the ticket to his house to show it to his nephew, Erazo. After driving to Palma's house he says he handed over the ticket, before waiting in his car for Palma to return it. However he was forced to call his worker when the man did not do so.
Quinteros goes on to claim Palma then told him he "was going to hold onto the ticket," so the pair could cash the check in the morning in Little Rock. However, when Quinteros went to Palma's house the following morning, he was not home.
After calling Palma, Quinteros claims he was told "not to worry about the money," and that "he going to get his share once [Palma] received the proceeds." However, the money did not materialise. He also says Palma had his nephew Erazo cash the money himself in an attempt to hide the money.
In a separate Lotto story, a recently minted £1.6 billion ($2bn) lottery winner has continued to make his own dreams come true after wasting no time in forking out on a life of unadulterated luxury. The richest Powerball winner in US history has added two vintage Porsches to his growing collection of cars.
The big-ticket buys come on the back of him securing a Bel Air estate for £38 million ($47m) with seven bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a koi pond and a luxurious infinity pool, a champagne tasting room, DJ turntables, a suspended glass walkway, a wine cellar and home theatre.
Edwin Castro's life took a dramatic turn when he purchased the winning ticket from a local petrol station last year before claiming a lump sum of £811m ($997.6m) in February. He had been living in a small one bedroom home just a block away from the petrol station.
Castro, 31, from Altadena, California, has created a huge collection of motors since he won the record-breaking prize. He already owns a white Porsche 911 from the 1980s, a grey Ram 1500 TRX, and three Volkswagen Karmann Ghias, two black and one red. His latest buys are a British racing green 1970s Porsche 356 and a black Porsche 1980s 911.
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