Ali Jaafar, 63, and Yousef Jaafar, 29, were found guilty by a federal jury on Friday on several tax evasion and money laundering charges
The Jaafars cashed in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a roughly 10-year period, laundered more than $20 million in proceeds before lying on tax returns
They used a scheme known as ‘ten percenting’ where they were tipped to winning tickets, paid off the winners and store operators and kept the profits
Mohamed Jaafar, another of Ali Jaafar´s sons who once interned for Democrat Senator John Kerry, pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme in November 2022 and got six months in prison.
The Jaafars cashed in 14,000 winning lottery tickets over a roughly 10-year period, laundered more than $20million in proceeds, and then lied on their tax returns to cheat the IRS out of about $6million.