Korede Mojeed, who has lived in New York for the past thirty years, has always believed he would win in the lottery eventually.  He says this is why he usually spends $20 on lottery tickets. 

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David Wright had a feeling he needed to buy scratch-off tickets so he bought two.  His hunch paid off, so he is now $200,000 richer.

Read more in http://www.fauquiernow.com/index.php/fauquier_news/article/remington-man-wins-200000-in-va.-lottery

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A Vietnamese refugee who left his home country as a penniless man in 1979 has won a $3.25 million dollar jackpot from the Lucky For Life scratch-off game of the California Lottery.

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Retired catering employee Carolyn Rodriguez won California Lottery’s $1,000,000 Fortune Scratchers game.  TRodiguez bought her $10 winning ticket from Kwik & Convenient Food Liquor & Wine store  in Fremont.

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A Mableton woman won $5 million dollars from the Georgia Lottery 20th Anniversary Extravaganza instant ticket.  One Griffin man won $1 million and another walked away with a $750,000 prize.

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Will Critzer was having a good day of fishing when he decided to scratch a lottery ticket he had bought earlier.  His morning brightened even more when he found he had won $4 million.

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John Nieblas received a huge return on a dollar investment when his  California Lucky for Life Scratchers ticket won a jackpot worth $650,000.  The retired mechanic from Fresno now plans to open his own auto repair workshop.

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D.C. Lottery is in a bind.  Their supply of the most popular form of lottery, the scratch-off tickets, are disappearing  fast.

The problem is caused by the failure of current supplier Scientific Games to comply with a DC requirement that contractors from outside the state hire local minority contractors to do at least 35% of the work. 

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Of Lottery Winners, Greed, And New Beginnings

Last month we followed the story of Andy Ashkar, a former convenience store worker, who was ultimately convicted of stealing a $5 million scratch-off lottery ticket from a customer.

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Lilia Martinez won a million dollar jackpot from a The Good Life instant lottery ticket.  Martinez, who had not won more than $20 previously, thought the win was only for $1000; her sister had to inform her it was $1000 per week for the next twenty years.

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