Store Clerk Steals Customer's $1 Million Dollar Lottery Ticket And Is Believed To Hav

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A 25-year-old convenience store clerk pocketed a customer's $1 million winning lottery ticket, claimed the prize and skipped town, possibly back to his native Nepal, authorities said.
Pankaj Joshi took 67-year-old Willis Willis' winning Mega Millions megaplier ticket after Willis asked Joshi in May to check whether any of his numbers were winners, investigators said in a search warrant affidavit last month.

Joshi claimed the prize — about $750,000 after taxes — at the lottery claim center in Austin, had the money wired to a bank account and disappeared, authorities said.

"Never to this degree have we seen a clerk steal a megaplier winning ticket," assistant district attorney Patty Robertson said Wednesday.

Nick Parveez, Joshi's former manager at Lucky's Food Store in Grand Prairie, near Dallas, called the lottery commission in July to voice his suspicions about Joshi after hearing that his store sold a $1 million winning ticket, according to the affidavit.

No one at Lucky's had ever seen Joshi play the lottery, assistant manager Mike Rahman said.

"He just left," Rahman said. "We were shocked. We didn't know he could do anything like this."

Joshi, who was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington and had worked at the store for five years, was charged in Travis County in September with one count of claiming a lottery prize by fraud. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison. A judge set Joshi's bond at $10 million.

The Austin American-Statesman first reported on the charge Wednesday.

Joshi transferred some of the money to various bank accounts after the initial deposit by the lottery, prosecutors said. Authorities have recovered $365,000 from Joshi's account. It wasn't clear when the money might be returned to Willis, if it's proven in court to be his.

"We hope to return the stolen funds back to the victim," Robertson said.

Investigators believe Joshi may have returned to Nepal. When he quit his job in June, Joshi said he was returning to the South Asian country to help his cousin with her perfume business, Parveez told investigators.

Willis, a regular customer at Lucky's, said he played the lottery two to three times a week using a set batch of numbers. He said he bought $10 worth of Mega Millions megaplier tickets on May 29 for that night's drawing, according to the affidavit.

Willis told investigators he went to the store two days after the drawing to check the results because he hadn't been able to find the winning lottery numbers on television or check them in the newspaper.

Investigators used the lottery transaction system to see if the winning ticket had been scanned and found it was checked on May 31. An inspection of the store's check processing computer found that Willis had cashed a check at the store and purchased lottery tickets two days earlier using set numbers. Willis also produced a lottery play slip showing the winning numbers.

Texas Lottery Commission officials said Wednesday they were investigating the matter. Spokesman Bobby Heith referred questions about the case to the district attorney's office. He said the lottery recommends players sign the back of their tickets when they buy them in case of loss or theft.

Rahman said even though Willis is upset about the missing money, he still buys lottery tickets at Lucky's.

"He still trusts us," he said.
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haha oh man what a dick move
 


Ok. People are STUPID when the when the lottery. I would be paranoid as HELL. (Ok ok I tend to move that direction anyway) If I won, first I would research the next step before doing ANYTHING. I think that you're supposed to see a tax attorney before going to the office to claim your winnings, but even that I would be parnoid about, I would probably put the ticket in lock box at the bank and then I would ask the attorney what I should with a lotto winning without telling him how much there was. When I claimed the prize I would put it in a trust fund for sure. Also I would, to the best of my ability, request to stay anonymous as possible. People get down right weird around lotto winners.


....not that I've ever given this much thought.
 
Joshi transferred some of the money to various bank accounts after the initial deposit by the lottery, prosecutors said. Authorities have recovered $365,000 from Joshi's account. It wasn't clear when the money might be returned to Willis, if it's proven in court to be his.
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if it's proven to be his? wtf? it takes an army of lawyers to figure it out i'm sure.

plus, i don't believe anyone could get away without paying at LEAST 40% of that back to the government. there's probably forced withholding. trust or not. that puts anyone into the 'what's yours is mostly ours' tax bracket.
 
turbolapp said:
Ok. People are STUPID when the when the lottery. I would be paranoid as HELL. (Ok ok I tend to move that direction anyway) If I won, first I would research the next step before doing ANYTHING. I think that you're supposed to see a tax attorney before going to the office to claim your winnings, but even that I would be parnoid about, I would probably put the ticket in lock box at the bank and then I would ask the attorney what I should with a lotto winning without telling him how much there was. When I claimed the prize I would put it in a trust fund for sure. Also I would, to the best of my ability, request to stay anonymous as possible. People get down right weird around lotto winners.


....not that I've ever given this much thought.
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I had this exact conversation with my wife a week or so ago after watching the "Lotto Winners - Where Are They Now" show on TLC or whatever.

These people who win 75 million on Powerball are complete morons most of the time. They deserve all the problems they get because they're not with it enough to make good decisions.
 
efeezy said:
These people who win 75 million on Powerball are complete morons most of the time. They deserve all the problems they get because they're not with it enough to make good decisions.
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You call owning 15 ATVs of all different colors, a problem?
 
the thing is, you have to be retarded to play the lottery, so all lottery winners are retards.
 
conv3rsion said:
the thing is, you have to be retarded to play the lottery, so all lottery winners are retards.
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You got that right. Never played the lottery and I never will. Its a fools game. Everyone out there thinks and dreams that the only way they will ever be a millionaire is to win the lottery. You hear common phrases people say like, "I'll do that after I win the lottery" or "the only way I'll ever get that is if I won the lottery".

Few of these people realize that you can actually go out there and make yourself a millionaire with some work and smart thinking. In the US everyone has an opportunity to succeed and you don't need the lottery to do it.
 
That's seriously fucked up. Damn.

My mom won a few hundred bucks playing the lottery once. Well, those scratching games and shit.
 
turbolapp said:
Ok. People are STUPID when the when the lottery. I would be paranoid as HELL. (Ok ok I tend to move that direction anyway) If I won, first I would research the next step before doing ANYTHING. I think that you're supposed to see a tax attorney before going to the office to claim your winnings, but even that I would be parnoid about, I would probably put the ticket in lock box at the bank and then I would ask the attorney what I should with a lotto winning without telling him how much there was. When I claimed the prize I would put it in a trust fund for sure. Also I would, to the best of my ability, request to stay anonymous as possible. People get down right weird around lotto winners.


....not that I've ever given this much thought.
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I never play the lottery, so this will never happen, but if I did and won in order I would:

1. Deposit the ticket in a safe deposit box
2. Assemble a team to include: 1. a tax attorney, 2. an estate attorney, 3. a shit-hot CPA.
3. Create a blind trust, have the trust collect the award in lump sum and deposit it into an interest-bearing account.
4. Maybe, maybe then would I tell anyone. And even then, it'd only be my most immediate family.

The goal would be to create a perpetual passive income stream to live off the interest of the investment- or, if a smaller winnings sum, to use the capital to become an equity partner in real estate deals and business ventures.

Medici said:
me either. all the hard work I've done would be massively devalued as people would just say "oh, he just won the lottery"

fuck that, I'll take my own.
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Yeah, I hear you on this. It would be pretty anticlimactic to finally reach the status of owning a very successful business and *then* win the lottery.
 
When I was in high school and my state just started the lottery my dad and I were driving home. We were getting ready to pass a C-store and I said "hey, lets stop and buy a lottery ticket" , my Dad proceeded to pull in the parking lot drove to the front of the building, rolled down the window and threw a dollar out and drove off.

I have never bought a ticket in my life.

It also really pisses me off when I'm at the store and some douchebag is holding up the line to buy a bunch of lottery tickets.

"YAH GIMME 4 POWER PLAYS AND 2 TRIPLE BIPPLE SLAMMERS AND UM UM UM 2 DOUBLE TUESDAY SMACKDOWNS AND AND AND UM UM UM UM YEAH IMA GET 3 MORE POWA PLAYS "
 
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Hollywood said:
You call owning 15 ATVs of all different colors, a problem?
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It's not a problem until you hook em all up with 24" Vogues.

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