California Lottery officials presented the check to Joe Chahayed and his sons Joe Jr. and Danny on a rainy election day outside of their gas station. Chahayed said lottery officials were waiting for him before he opened his shop this morning. “They said, ‘congratulations, your station sent a winner,’” he recounted. Chahayed hopes the winner is from the neighborhood, and is glad a portion of the lottery money will go towards California schools.
“Somebody is holding on to a very important piece of paper this morning worth $2.04 billion, that’s two billion forty million dollars,” said Carolyn Becker, California Lottery spokesperson. “That person needs to keep it safe. We will not know who they are until they come forward, but we have a second record to talk about today and that’s California lottery raised more money than ever thanks to one growing jackpot for California public schools.
Came with $14,000 in his pocket?
If you support the winner, you will own 40 times of drawings with no winner and the associated poverty.
I know u want this to be a feel good story but if u ask most people how they’d feel if they had 14 grand in their pocket in today’s economy…they probably say “rich”
of you champion the winner then you own 40 times drawings with no winner and the poverty that goes with that.
This man embodied the American Dream decades before the record Powerball drawing…but the million bucks is icing on the cake.
Does anyone else find it strange that California had 'security issues' to delay the drawing - then there is a SINGLE winning ticket in California?
$14 grand in 1980 was a lot of money.