Prosecutors: Family's Lottery Luck Was Too Fishy

Prosecutors: Family's Lottery Luck Was Too Fishy

Newser - Lottery Winner·2021-08-25 07:02

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(Newser) – Ali Jaafar, 63, was the top individual lottery ticket casher in Massachusetts in 2019. His sons Mohamed, 31, and Yousef, 28, were third and fourth respectively, per Complex. According to prosecutors, family luck had nothing to do with it. In reality, the three men who cashed in more than 13,000 winning lottery tickets worth almost $21 million from 2011 to 2019 were running a ticket-cashing scheme that allowed the true winners to escape paying owed taxes or child support, as required with lottery prizes over $600 in Massachusetts, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.

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