Lottery Winner Knows Just What to Do With $560 Million: Fight to Stay Anonymous
- 6 years ago
Lottery Winner Knows Just What to Do With $560 Million: Fight to Stay Anonymous
She was an engaged member of her New Hampshire community: the sort of local who purchased
a lotto ticket at a quaint, modest market that some say makes the “best subs in town.”
That Powerball ticket, though, turned out to be worth $560 million — the seventh largest jackpot in this country’s lottery history.
Most states consider the identities of winners of large prizes to be a matter of public record, though a few — like Delaware, Kansas
and Maryland — allow winners to keep their identities private; others allow trusts, instead of individuals, to claim prizes.
The problem is that Jane Doe has already signed her winning ticket — a decision she now calls “a huge mistake” — so she is asking
that she be allowed to white-out her information and replace it with the name of a trust in the presence of the lottery commission.
Jane Doe’s lawsuit says that the New Hampshire Lottery Commission has, in the past, allowed a trustee to be the public face of a jackpot,
and seeks a court order allowing the winner in this case to do the same thing.
She was an engaged member of her New Hampshire community: the sort of local who purchased
a lotto ticket at a quaint, modest market that some say makes the “best subs in town.”
That Powerball ticket, though, turned out to be worth $560 million — the seventh largest jackpot in this country’s lottery history.
Most states consider the identities of winners of large prizes to be a matter of public record, though a few — like Delaware, Kansas
and Maryland — allow winners to keep their identities private; others allow trusts, instead of individuals, to claim prizes.
The problem is that Jane Doe has already signed her winning ticket — a decision she now calls “a huge mistake” — so she is asking
that she be allowed to white-out her information and replace it with the name of a trust in the presence of the lottery commission.
Jane Doe’s lawsuit says that the New Hampshire Lottery Commission has, in the past, allowed a trustee to be the public face of a jackpot,
and seeks a court order allowing the winner in this case to do the same thing.