A Washington DC man is suing the DC lottery and Powerball after he was told that his winning numbers were published by mistake.
John Cheeks said he felt “numb” in Jan. 2023, after Powerball’s winning numbers, published to their website for a full three days, matched his ticket. But when Cheeks presented his ticket to the Office of Lottery and Gaming (OLG), they told him it was ‘no good.’
“One of the claims agents told me my ticket was no good, just to throw it in the trash can,” he told the BBC, and told NBC 4, “They have said that one of their contractors made a mistake.”
Instead, he lawyered up, and is now suing the lottery for damages in the amount of the Powerball jackput, as well as any interest he would have earned on it since winning – totaling $340 million.
According to court filings, Powerball and DC-based Taoti Enterprises, a contractor, claim that the confusion arose from a technical error stemming from a quality assurance team running tests on the website. On that day, powerball numbers matching Cheeks’ ticket were published to the website “accidentally,” according to the defendants.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-man-sues-lottery-after-being-told-340-million-win-was-error
h/t telling it straight