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Clerk Stole $ 1m Lottery Ticket - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 23rd Oct, 2009 - 5:50pm
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Clerk Stole $1m Lottery Ticket
Greed can cause people to do something crazy like this! I hope all the money is recovered and given to the right winner.
QUOTE AUSTIN, Texas (Oct. 22) - 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...
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...
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It's funny when people comment someone is incapable to do something like this because the truth is that you just don't know! Money is a hell of a thing sometimes.
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