Tracy Hartwick matched all five white balls and the Powerball on the record $1.8 billion jackpot.
He bought the ticket in Cabot Arkansas before the December 23 2025 drawing.
Arkansas normally lets big winners stay anonymous.
Act 889 of 2021 creates a six month limit for elected officials and close relatives including siblings.
Once the clock ran out the name became public.
Lottery records show he claimed 94 percent of the prize.
His brother Timothy got 3 percent.
A third unidentified winner got the rest.
Mayor Terry Hartwick faced an earlier harassment accusation involving schoolgirls but prosecutors declined charges.
Conspiracy posts immediately linked it to the old Epstein Zorro Trust Powerball claim which investigators traced to a regular Oklahoma woman.
An Arkansas man who won a record-breaking Powerball jackpot worth more than $1.8 billion has been identified as the younger brother of Terry Hartwick, the mayor of North Little Rock, Ark.
Tracy L. Hartwick bought a $30 Quick Play ticket with the Power Play option at a Murphy USA gas station in Cabot, a city of about 27,000 people northeast of Little Rock, before the Christmas Eve drawing, according to lottery records first reported by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
His ticket matched all five white balls and the Powerball, making it the second-largest jackpot in Powerball history. Hartwick chose a lump-sum payout, rather than the yearly payout for 30 years that would have equalled $1.8 billion all together. He took home $834.9 million before taxes.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette coverage of the identification
USA Today on state anonymity rules for lottery winners
They just took their lottery scam international too. This is exactly why I don’t do gambling. Now that we know it is rigged time to stop buying them.