There’s a billion dollar mystery in the small town of Lebanon, Maine, where the sole winning ticket of the $1.35 billion MegaMillion jackpot was sold. The winning ticket matched all six numbers, making them the second largest Mega Millions winner in U.S. history and possibly one of the richest people in all of the state.
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How are you a billionaire when half goes to uncle Joe ?
It was a guy named Jeff who was just passing through and lives in Delaware.
Hope you’re right. Maine isn’t exactly the poorest State lol!
You haven’t seen too to much past Bangor have ya?
@Julie Neild im from maine< currently living in Maui. yeah we have it pretty good. as long as your a coastal town like mine.
Nobody is a new billionaire. Are we not aware that the irs does exist and they will take a good amount out in taxes? So realistically you’ll come back with about $400,000,000.
Nope
I live a mile from where it was sold. Hook me up, please. Lol
Hopefully the winner is smart enough to take the lump sum, stay anonymous, hire a lawyer, CPA and financial advisor right off the bat so they can set themselves up for success. Instead of most winners who go on a spending spree.
For that amount of money, you don’t need lawyers or financial advisors or nothing. Spend a 100 million to make all of your family rich and donations to worthy charities, you still got 600+ millions in cash!!!
@Blade Brown pre tax as the lump sum. It’ll be about 360 M lump sum post taxes. With conservative 2% interest investing you’d live on 3.5-4M per year after taxes – and never touch the actual 360M bankroll.
@مهند maybe this makes me a bad person, but with $4M net interest income after taxes I’d rather put my family on the payroll for $1M per year, give $1M to charity, and do some personally motivated investing for $1M per year (ie help out the restaurants I like that needed something, buy a couple food trucks for the restaurant and inpatient sober house). I’d need lawyers and the like to deal with putting in a trust, and a investment firm to help make sure the investments weren’t unethical, were geographically diverse, and to deal with tax paperwork.
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Y’all saying they don’t need a finance advisor because of this new found wealth are ridiculous. I may detest the 1%ers of the world but you can bet even Bezos has one…probably many if you think about it.
And if it were me, I’d do exactly what the OP said. Take the lump sum with tax already taken out, and remain anonymous are the biggies here. Sadly you can’t stay anonymous in all states.
SO pennywise the clown won the lottery
I’m the winner so happy ! Thank you guys
Even though I’m a little jealous I’m just happy It wasn’t somebody from California again
I remember them having a 5 Million lottery jackpot if you got jabbed. People still literally buying into this.
I think it was the government who won not the people is a rigged game NY CA FL are always winning too much for a quensidence
Oh well back to work for me!!!
It was my uncle he’s talking to her financial advisor though
There is no winner lolllll the money went to Ukrainian
I would hide too get the cameras away
all lottery jackpot winners should be thoroughly examined by FBI. I smell something fishy.
$724.6 million dollars after taxes. Almost half of it goes back into formation. 😉
It was me. I just bought NY Nicks.
Oh look another person winning in a democratic state,,they bought 3 electoral votes when voting comes for a new president 😂😂😂
Hi I am their long lost half first cousin where dey at?
Population of 6300 how Lottery rig can you be thank you lottery I learned to never play this rigged game again this is for the good old boys🖕🤑
Not Billionaire. 50% cash payout, Govt takes 20%….
It’s a fake news to encourage people to waste their money, because the odds are one in 302 million
Don’t be fooled. The feds can’t have some average joe suddenly become richer than everyone in congress 😅that would upset the balance of things and we can’t have that now can we? There is no winning ticket. Or should I say there is no winner because the winner does not exist
Yep
Plane crash in Nepal.10.28 am this morning.yeti airlines 😢😢😢😢😢
Their was only two people who hit big and took home $928,260 that’s why it fent from being at 1Billy down to 20Milly .. good luck to all let’s keep playing 😊
I ain’t gonna share… I have a small heart
Please give us the name and address to congratulate them.
Does anyone have his address?..
Congratulations to the winner
In general, how do we know these “average” people win the lottery? How do we know rich people don’t spend a tiny fraction of their wealth (say $100,000 or less) on tickets and hire someone to claim the jackpot? Wouldn’t be that hard to use a random number generator and send people out to buy tickets, all without revealing the true “winner”.
They already proved it’s rigged. One of the workers who does the software for lottery had his friend buy the winning tickets. I think he got jail time. But yeah it is rigged. Eddie Tipton is his name. There’s nothing random about lottery. Even scratchers nobody wins the big prizes until a certain amount of tickets are sold, say there’s 5 big winners 20 Million. the 1st winner won’t be out till at least 1/3 of the tickets are sold. Then at 1/2 another 2 winners could claim and finally 3/4 to full sell out another winner and sometimes there’s 1 or 2 tickets left unclaimed in the big prizes and they just close out the game and start a new one.
Its a 80 yrs old lady🤷♂️🤷♂️ like allways
WoW
MSM is pushing this hype hard… replete with disinformation.. after taxes & lump sum penalty it’s not going to be a billion dollars✌🏾
How can someone be so lucky..those numbers have nothing in common its a mystery how one can correctly guess that…this is a crazy amount
It more than likely was a computer picked numbers (quick pick)
Idiocracy
You can’t lose if you don’t play✌🏾
@Gilbert Guzman the point is a preventive attitude can keep you from experiencing everything life has to offer. No need to take that so literal. The point was something ridiculous and unlikely can also happen if you leave your home but thats not reason enough to stay inside.
@Vlad V I’ve lived in a neighborhood where a little girl was asleep and 4 of July celebratory gunshots went through her roof and killed her so it threw me off when I read you can’t die from bullets if you never leave your house
Stray
@Vlad V stay safe out there 🙏
@Gilbert Guzman ya, not a good example. You too
That’s a no brainer . Lump sum, anonymous!! And tell no one. Not even your family. Continue living as you are until you secure a real lawyer/finance person who won’t steal.
My long lost cousin! Been looking for them for years😂
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i have a friend who lives in lebanon! i hope it’s her!
Guy with a beanie hat won it. He said that he didnt know lol
The winner is always an old white farming couple in a small city with 2 buildings
724M minus half in taxes so like 360M
It’s 1.4 Billion. After taxes 724 Million
This smells fishy
Or phishy 😆
Check the security cameras during the time that the winning ticket were sold.
Defeats the anonymous part. Leave the winner alone.
@XMeccx he’s my cousin, I need that money!!!! Lol jk
Get a financial planner and attorney to help get things started the right way.
Billionaires paying an actual tax rate. America thanks you.
Who? Someone who doesn’t deserve it guaranteed.
Of course it’s Maine
This always happens… the jackpot gets this high… finally there’s a winner but in a state that can remain anonymous. I honestly dont think anyone won. I think they let it get so high- which would ultimately draw more ticket buyers. The lottery commission is the real winner.
If you want everyone to know you won, get ready for everyone to sue you for everything and anything.
Clearly someone did because that ticket was, you know…bought. So it’s in someone’s hands…somewhere. Whether they actually checked their numbers is another matter altogether. Everyone knows the odds of winning this, so who actually takes the time and energy to check when you know those odds are insanely low? Just a thought.
Bingo
Don’t buy lotto tickets! The lottery is a scam and no one wins.
Who cares it ain’t me
I never knew it before, but if no one wins the mega after a certain time period, the government swipes all of the money
It goes to the state after 12 months and is used for different programs depending on the state laws pertaining to it.
@XMeccx yeah, like the pocket program…..hahahaha
@Curtis Everett tell me how many times a state got the lottery winnings from Powerball or Mega Millions. If you don’t trust the state you live in, maybe you should move to a place you do trust.
@XMeccx why should I have to move because other people are thieves? I’m the honest one
@Curtis Everett so you want to live in a state where you don’t trust the local/state government? Well I guess you need to invest in lots of aluminum foil.
This is run by the mafia and the winners are connected to the mafia.
Right legal gambling but only allowed by the lottery commission.
1:27 IF YOU ARE A LARGE JACKPOT WINNER …THAT STATEMENT RIGHT THERE IS WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS STAY ANONYMOUS.
This gas station ⛽️ worker automatically thinks that the winner should take care of people 🙄 For the sake of this particular winner I hope they just needed ⛽️ one day, driving through, bought a ticket, and NEVER go or look back. That gas station ⛽️ will already receive an award from lottery headquarters.
There something better than money yall. Salvation is 1.35 billion times better money
When you gaze upon riches, they’re gone, for they surely make wings for themselves and fly off into the sky like an eagle. Proverbs 23:5
When I was 18 I talked about everything I would do with any jackpot amount.
Now at 40 I’m not sure how I would handle the reality of winning millions or billions.
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It’s likely fixed, anyway.
They’re not a billionaire maybe a couple hundred million which is still crazy though
Wow congratulations! I hope the winner help the people in the community special to those people in the store-.❤️
Or probably, not which is usually the case with some people
@walker 😞
I would stay anonymous
What a SCAM
Congrats to the Winner.
GOOD LUCK
Anonymous? All those playing don’t agree with this. How do you know anonymous even exists. That’s why they made it public. Its gambling therefore it shouldn’t be made rigged with anonymous winners.
The winner accidentally threw the ticket away with other miscellaneous trash…
The winner doesn’t need to take the lump sum because Florida and Texas have no capital gains with tax attorneys the funds can be placed into a blind trust and relocate from the state if the person is lawfully resides there, additionally the jackpot did not increase because of inflation,the jackpot increased because of crypto currency , Bitcoin is not backed up like stocks and bonds and it is largely unregulated,as the Treasury currently eyeing the release of digital dollars running on a similar platform as other crypto is when Congress will introduce legislation 3-5 years from now maybe it becomes a reality but unfortunately the infighting by Republicans will slow process because they received billions in donations and Trump is holding Republicans by their balls in order to avoid paying capital gains trump continued to be considered a resident of the state of NY. So the winner(s) should sit tight and have public guessing about his or her identity😁
It’s always a small town
Maga millions lucky winner 🏆
If the winner picked quick pick, imagine how you would feel if you bought your tickets from the same store also quick pick but you didn’t win sh!t 😬
You are basically subsidizing government. They are going to take 40% tax and how do you know how much
they raised for this jackpot? 2 billion? 3 billion? And you will never know where that money goes. I just do not
think that this is a good way to invest your money. Invest in something where you actually see something in return.
I just hope he gives it to the town government so they can spend it on things that are important to the community
We don’t know if this person is from this town 🤷♀️
@walker how do you know you do you live in that town
@Ben Norwood how would I know when his person is anonymous lol
That’s a lie I don’t think Stephen King was born in that town that’s fake news
Funny how billion dollar tickets are always in some small remote towns all a scam or some inside conspiracy
I like how the reporter was kind of down playing Steven King being worth 500million.
Not really that much.
But the country broke they make me sick with this crap people that win this should do more for the poor if it was me I would help as many people as I could
HUR, HUR, HUR, a state that allows anonymity, LET ME THINK HERE.. WHAT SHOULD I DO!? Let me GO PUBLIC with my winnings! BRIGHT IDEA, HUR HUR HUR!!!
Cheating
He or.she is gonna eat a lot of lobster!!!
Lol shots fired at Steven king
Probably a old guy that died of a heart attack seeing the numbers I bet. That’s why no one’s come forward yet.
“Hookers and cocaine”
Besides the already extranomical chances and odds against ticket buyers.
It just gets me how the states with the highest contributions of building that jackpot. In high populations as ticket purchasers were left with even less odds.
Yep…I’ve said for years that the lottery is just another money hoarder, except it just sits there not belonging to anyone until the lucky Charlie Bucket comes along. There’s so much money that just sits not being put to good social use, so frankly it’s just legal scam. I said what I said.
@Jennifer Hiemstra My thoughts really were at least a handful of winners of different states. To spread that wealth.
@Troy Sierra That’s fine too, even though I personally want to see the whole thing cease to exist entirely. It just an empty carrot dangling promise of quick wealth with odds stacked against literally everyone, except for those who already are rich and/or living in any states that aren’t NY or CA.
When people continually asked “Well how will the country pay for it” (Whatever IT is), well…getting rid of the lottery is one of many answers 🤷🏻♀️
@Jennifer Hiemstra agree with you 100%
I pray it was the needy and not the greedy. Congratulations to the winner or winners.
Congratulations! Enjoy your life and do it your way.
Imagine losing the winning ticket
No wonder they won’t come forward. That don’t know them and they are already begging 😑
I’m sad it wasn’t me but I’m happy it wasn’t California or New York as usual!
They still won’t be a billionaire if they slowly cash in. They will still pay taxes yearly.
It only took 3 months to climb to a billion dollars again?
The lottery system is just another thing that hoards money while it dangles an empty promise of wealth, when it could be put back into the hands of people. I said what I said.
I hope it was someone who really needed it.
I hope they don’t come forward.
I guess the winner is already DEAD 😳😳😳 no free money in this era ……________ finito 🤣🤣🤣
So what if they split the amount into 51 different payments and pulled 51 numbers one from each state that would allow one person from each state to win and increase the number of people buying tickets ….I should get paid for this idea …lol
😆
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Thank God I save my $2.
How convenient, in Maine they can remain anonymous…rigged.
Tell the winner that they owe me $20.00 plus interest of 500%
If you guys won the lottery, what would you guys do with your winnings
Saludos al ganador yo seré el próximo.
How come it’s the same states? Over and over 🤣 😎😉 good luck everyone