A Washington, D.C., man whose lottery ticket matched the posted winning numbers of a Powerball drawing online last year has filed a $340 million lawsuit seeking the money he says he won.
But the lottery company claims he didn’t win anything, saying the numbers he saw when he checked his ticket on the Powerball website were posted in error and didn’t match the actual winning numbers.
John Cheeks told WRC-TV in Washington that on Jan. 6, 2023, he purchased a ticket for a drawing the following day when he saw that the prize had ballooned to more than $300 million.
He explained that he does not buy lottery tickets regularly but did so in this case because the prize was so big. On Jan. 8, Cheeks went to the lottery website to reference the ticket with the numbers that were drawn.
He said the numbers online were an exact match to those on his ticket.
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