程阳：美国特拉华、堪萨斯、马里兰、北达科他、俄亥俄等5州法律彩票可匿名领奖
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程阳：美国堪萨斯和马里兰州彩票可匿名领奖
——美国特拉华、堪萨斯、马里兰、北达科他、俄亥俄等5州法律彩票可匿名领奖
【中国相关报道】
美国大部分州法律，要求公开彩票中奖者姓名。但是也有少数州
(DE - 德拉瓦, KS - 堪萨斯,
MD - 马里兰, ND - 北达科他, OH - 俄亥俄)
法律允许彩票匿名领奖。最近美国超级百万6.4亿美元大奖3注均分，分别来自伊利诺伊州、堪萨斯州和马里兰州，堪萨斯州和马里兰州中奖者均利用本州法律选择匿名领奖，而伊利诺伊州法律必须实名领奖，目前该州中奖者尚未领
奖。
How would a mega-lottery winner remain
anonymous? 程阳: 美国的彩票业掠影
All but five states (DE - 德拉瓦, KS - 堪萨斯, MD - 马里兰, ND - 北达科他,
OH - 俄亥俄) have laws that require the lottery to release the name
and city of residence to anyone who asks. Other states may offer to
assist you in some way, including such things as the creation of
trusts. But generally, you will want to hire an attorney to review
the laws in your state to see what options you might
have.
Which states allow lottery winners to remain
anonymous?
Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, North Dakota, and Ohio have laws
in place that allows any lottery winner to remain
anonymous.
Additional states may allow a trust to be set up and the
lottery winnings received in the name of the trust. Thus, you could
remain anonymous.
- Maryland laws allow lottery winners
to remain anonymous when collecting their prize, and the winners
chose that option in this case.
- Winning tickets were also sold in
Kansas and Illinois. The Kansas ticketholder chose to keep his
identity secret. Most states don't allow that.
- As Kansas law allows, the mystery
winner chose to enjoy the winnings privately, leaving lottery
officials to celebrate the auspicious occasion with horns,
confetti, balloons, cake and punch in the company of a carboard
cut-out.
- Under Kansas law, lottery winners can
choose not to publicly reveal their identities. The winner has
retained legal counsel and financial advisers and 'looks forward to
retiring,' Wilson said.
- Kansas law
also allows lottery winners to remain anonymous, though lottery
winners in Illinois are identified.
__________________________________________
Lottery policy has always been to release
only the name and city of residence of each winner to the news
media. Since the Lottery is a government agency and Lottery prizes
are public funds, it is our responsibility to inform all of our
players just like you, of Lottery winners and prizes. Therefore, we
must require jackpot winners to participate in a media event
arranged by the Lottery. We owe it to everyone to disclose the
names of all winners to protect the integrity of the
Lottery.
纽约州的彩票政策是一贯的，那就是向新闻媒体公开中奖者姓名和所在城市。因为纽约彩票是政府部门，彩票奖金是公众资金，我们有责任把彩票中奖者及奖金情况，告知所有的像你这样的彩票玩家。因此我们会安排媒体见面会，并要求大奖得主出席。为此，我们感谢所有大奖得主的配合，使我们纽约彩票的公正性得以保证。
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程阳：纽约彩票为何公开中奖者？
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Maryland Mega Millions winners claim prize
anonymously
Apr 10, 2012, 8:34 am
Three public school employees nab share of record
jackpot
The Maryland Mega Millions lottery winners are three Maryland
public school employees, who split the world's biggest lottery
jackpot with two other winners from Kansas and
Illinois.
The trio claimed their share of the jackpot Monday at
Maryland Lottery headquarters.
Maryland laws allow lottery winners to remain anonymous when
collecting their prize, and the winners chose that option in this
case.
Maryland Lottery Director Stephen Martino said the employees
will each receive $34.997 million after taxes.They had purchased a
total of 60 tickets at three different locations throughout the
state, or a total investment of $20 per person.
'It is the first time that the three friends have pooled
their money together,' Martino said.
The three winners are a woman in her 20s, another in her 50s,
and a man in his 40s.One employee is an elementary school teacher,
another is a special education instructor and the third works in an
administrative role.Two have other part-time jobs.
The youngest of the group held onto the tickets and checked
them immediately following the drawing.'I had all 60 tickets spread
across my floor,' she said.'Once I realized one was a winner, I
called my two friends right away.'
'That evening, I forgot about the drawing and went to sleep,'
said one winner.'It was around 11:30 p.m., and my phone just kept
ringing and ringing.I finally decided to answer it, thinking
something was wrong.'Once she picked up, the two other winners were
on the phone and said, 'Get dressed. We're coming over right
now.'
After discussing the win, the threesome came up with a
plan.'We made copies of the ticket, and we each signed the copies,'
said one of the women.'At 1 a.m., I took the ticket and drove to my
mother's house to put it in her safe.I didn't even take time to
pack any clothes — I just drove.'
When the group arrived at lottery headquarters Monday,
Martino said one of the winners took a small white envelope of out
of her purse that contained the winning Mega Millions ticket. The
winners had made three copies of the ticket and each signed the
copies, he said.
The actual ticket wasn't signed by all three winners until
Monday at the lottery's conference room table, Martino said. The
ticket was then handed over to lottery security and its
authenticity was verified, he said.
The winners' future plans all include new homes.One also
plans to take a backpacking trip through Europe, while another will
pay for his daughter's college education, Martino said.A third
winner will tour Italy's wine country, he said.
'Most importantly,' one winner said, 'we're going to be
careful with how the money is spent.I watched coverage of the
jackpot win on television all week, just so I could listen to the
financial advice the professionals were offering.'
All three have indicated they intend to remain employees
within Maryland's public school system.
'They were modest, and humbled,' said Martino. 'These are
precisely the people you would want to see win the
lottery.'
A total of three winning tickets were sold across the country
for the $656 million March 30 Mega Millions drawing matching the
winning numbers 2, 4, 23, 38, and 46, with Mega Ball number
23.
Speculation about a Maryland ticket reached fever pitch last
week when a Maryland woman, Mirlande Wilson, 37, said she had the
ticket, then alternately claimed she had lost it and had hidden it
inside the McDonald's restaurant where she works.Her attorney, who
admitted he couldn't back up her story, said she wanted to be left
alone.
As many suspected, the story was a hoax.Lord knows why people
do these things, but the woman fabricated the whole
thing.
The anonymous winners bought the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven
store in Milford Mill outside Baltimore.The retailer will receive a
$100,000 agent bonus for selling the winning
ticket.Lottery officials increased the final jackpot to $656
million after tallying sales from the 44 lotteries that offer Mega
Millions.The jackpot was the biggest in Mega Millions history and
the three winners — one in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas — will
each get more than $218 million before taxes.
Kansas' winner also decided to remain anonymous.(See Kansas
Mega Millions winner claims jackpot anonymously, Lottery Post, Apr.
6, 2012.)
The Illinois winner has yet to come forward to claim the
prize.
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Mega Millions winners claim prizes, choose
anonymity
By Marisol Bello and Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY
The winners of the record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot are
turning up one-by-one, but the guessing game over just who the new
multimillionaires are goes on.
The owners of the ticket bought in Maryland came forward
Monday and turned out to be two public school teachers and an
administrative employee. The trio — a man in his 40s, a woman in
her 20s and a woman in her 50s calling themselves 'The Three
Amigos' — chose to be unidentified. They said they plan to keep
working.
They were photographed with their faces covered by a large
check for $218.6 million, their portion of the $656 million
jackpot. Their hands and arms were covered by gloves and long
sleeves.
'They were modest and humbled,' Maryland Lottery Director
Stephen Martino said Tuesday. 'These are precisely the people you
would want to see win the lottery.'
Winning tickets were also sold in Kansas and Illinois. The
Kansas ticketholder chose to keep his identity secret. Most states
don't allow that.
In Illinois, no one has claimed the prize. Illinois Lottery
Superintendent Michael Jones said identifying winners ensures the
process is open and shows winners are chosen randomly.
Staying anonymous is smart, said Andrew Stoltmann, an
attorney who has worked with lottery winners. Those who don't 'have
to change your phone number, maybe even get a new address, and get
your team in place and prepare for an all-out avalanche of
long-lost relatives, quote-unquote friends, charities and others
beating down the door,' he said.
A news conference 'is the worst thing people can do,'
Stoltmann said. 'It's one thing to have your name released, it's
another to have a press conference and have people see your face
and hear you speak and know exactly what you look
like.'
Even without one, he said 'it's almost impossible to be
anonymous now once your name is out there, given Facebook, Twitter,
online photos and your digital footprint.'
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Kansas Mega Millions winner chooses anonymity, cash
By BRAD COOPER
Updated: 2012-04-07T02:55:54Z
TOPEKA | -- The only thing anyone may ever know about the
record jackpot lottery winner in Kansas is that it’s a 6-foot tall
shadowy figure made of poster board sporting a smiley
face.
That’s because the winner’s name is: Anonymous.
Someone — lottery officials aren’t releasing any information
about gender, age or hometown — claimed the $218.6 million Kansas
Mega Millions jackpot at 11:45 a.m. Friday.
As Kansas law allows, the mystery winner chose to enjoy the
winnings privately, leaving lottery officials to celebrate the
auspicious occasion with horns, confetti, balloons, cake and punch
in the company of a carboard cut-out.
“They obviously don’t need the publicity and they’re not used
to the publicity,” said Dennis Wilson, the Kansas Lottery’s
executive director. “They were still in awe they had won it.
They’re like all of us. They think about the possibility of
winning, but they never think that’s it’s going to happen to
them.”
This much is known. The winner is looking forward to
retirement.
The ticket was purchased at Casey’s General Store No. 2668 at
940 N. Main Street in Ottawa, which has a population of barely more
than 6,000. The winner spent only $1 and let the computer pick a
random number.
After taxes, he or she will take home $110.5 million — more
than double the city of Ottawa’s budget.
The Kansas winner shared in a national $656 million Mega
Millions jackpot that culminated last Friday, when the lucky
numbers were drawn. The record amount set off a frenetic ticket
buying spree nationwide.
Kansas sold $28.5 million worth of lottery tickets in March,
a 52 percent spike over March 2011, when there was only a measly
$312 million Mega Millions jackpot.
On Saturday, lottery officials announced that winning Mega
Millions tickets were purchased in Illinois, Maryland and
northeastern Kansas.
But the Kansas winner didn’t check the numbers until Monday,
when they looked at the lottery’s web site.
“They checked it over 10 times to make sure they were reading
it right and still had a hard time believing it,” Wilson
said.
They called the lottery office in Topeka at 8:30 Friday
morning. About two hours later, the winner arrived accompanied by a
lawyer and two financial advisers. The paperwork was completed
before noon, and the money will be transferred to the winner’s
account electronically.
Meanwhile, the rural Illinois community of Red Bud is still
waiting for the mystery winner of its share of the Mega Millions
jackpot to step forward. And in Maryland, questions still surround
a Baltimore woman who claimed to have the other winning ticket, but
then said she couldn’t find it.
Back in Kansas, the state lottery handed out even more money
Friday, a total of about $460,000 to 20 winners of other
games.
But no one was paying much attention to them.
One winning couple quietly slipped into a conference room to
claim a $100,000 instant-ticket prize. Security escorted the man
and the woman out with barely anyone noticing.
Not even the cardboard cut-out with the smiley
face.
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Kansas Mega Millions winner claims jackpot
anonymously
Apr 6, 2012, 6:04 pm
The holder of one of three winning tickets in last week's
record $656 million Mega Millions drawing came forward Friday to
claim a share, Kansas Lottery officials announced Friday
afternoon.
The winner — a single ticket holder — has chosen to remain
anonymous, state lottery director Dennis Wilson said.
The announcement was made at an afternoon press conference at
state lottery headquarters in Topeka.
Under Kansas law, lottery winners can choose not to publicly
reveal their identities. The winner has retained legal counsel and
financial advisers and 'looks forward to retiring,' Wilson
said.
Kansas was one of three states where three tickets matched
the winning numbers — 2, 4, 23, 38, and 46, with Mega Ball number
23 — amounting to an equal share of roughly $218.6 million, before
taxes, under the annuity option. The Kansas lottery player
purchased the winning ticket at a Casey's convenience store in
Ottawa.
The winner has chosen to take a one-time lump-sum payment of
about $157 million before taxes.
'It'll take a few days for us to transfer the money to their
account. It was a single ticket holder — one person claimed the
ticket,' Wilson said.
'They were still just in awe that they had won it,' Wilson
said of the winner, who didn't know the ticket was a winner until
Monday.
'They checked it over 10 times ... and still had a hard time
believing it,' Wilson said.
As for choosing to remain anonymous, Wilson said the winner
obviously doesn't want the publicity.'We all have to understand
that these kind of winners need time to digest. They were still in
awe that they had won it,' Wilson said.
'They're like all of us. They think about the possibility of
winning but they never think that it would hapen to them — but it
did. It proves real people really win — and you could be
next.
Two other winning tickets were purchased in Maryland and
Illinois.
The Kansas winner is the first to officially come forward,
just a week after the winning numbers were picked.
Meanwhile, Maryland lottery officials have been responding to
a flurry of questions from the media this week after a
Baltimore-area woman told the New York Post that she had one of the
winning tickets. However, in a bizarre twist of the story, Mirlande
Wilson, a 37-year-old single mother of seven who works at
McDonald's, told the Post on Friday that she isn't sure where she
last had the ticket.
'I'm still looking for it. I haven't even looked in my
uniform pants yet,' the Post quoted Wilson as saying. 'I'm still
looking everywhere to find it, in my purse,
everywhere.'
The state's lottery director said Thursday he hasn't seen the
ticket, but he also says no one else has come forward saying he has
it.
Carole Everett, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Lottery, said
Tuesday she doesn't 'put much stock in that story.'
'She claims she won,' Everett said. 'She can't produce a
ticket. ... In our opinion, until they walk in that door, hold that
ticket, produce valid identification and our security people can
process and validate it, it doesn't matter.'
If Wilson is determined to be a winner, a showdown could be
brewing with her McDonald's co-workers. They are demanding a share
because they say they pooled their money to buy several tickets.
Wilson has said the ticket she bought was separate from
that.
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Winning Mega Millions lottery tickets sold in
Maryland, Kansas and Illinois
POST WIRE SERVICES
Last Updated: 6:48 PM, March 31, 2012
Posted: 1:18 AM, March 31, 2012
Winning tickets in the $640 million Mega Millions lottery
were sold in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas, lottery officials
confirmed Saturday.
One lucky ticket was bought at a 7-Eleven store in Milford
Mill, about 11 miles (18 kilometers) outside Baltimore at 7.15pm
local time Friday and was a single quick pick ticket, FOX News
Channel reported.
The lucky customer bought just one ticket and did not
purchase anything else.
Maryland lottery director Stephen Martino told FOX that he
was looking forward to meeting the winner and said that the $640
million jackpot figure was just a projection and could end up even
higher.
'This is truly remarkable and historic,' Maryland Lottery
Director Stephen Martino said in a statement. 'We can't wait to
greet the winner of this world-record setting
jackpot.'
Today television cameras were descending on the 7-Eleven in
Baltimore County where the state’s winning ticket was purchased.
The harried manager could only repeatedly say “No interviews” to
the reporters pressing for details, and customers pushed through
the media crush for their morning coffee.
Maryland does not require lottery winners to be identified;
the Mega Millions winner can claim the prize anonymously. The store
will receive a $100,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket, which
was purchased Friday night.
Another winning ticket was sold in the city of Red Bud, in
southern Illinois, near St. Louis.
'And we have a winner!!' the Illinois Lottery tweeted
Saturday. 'A Grand Prize #MegaMillions ticket was sold at Red Bud
Motomart 900 S Main St, Red Bud! Two other winners in KS &
MD.'
“This is very exciting, people are extremely happy, and of
course everybody wants to know who it is,” Denise Metzger, manager
of the Motomart where the winning ticket was sold, said Saturday
morning. “Hopefully I sold that ticket to someone who comes in
every single morning.”
The Illinois winner used a quick pick to select the numbers,
according to Mike Lang, spokesman for the Illinois
Lottery.
The third winning ticket was purchased in northeast Kansas,
but no other information would be released by the Kansas Lottery
until the winner comes forward, spokeswoman Cara S. Sloan-Ramos
said in an email.
No winner had contacted the agency by Saturday morning,
Kansas Lottery Director Dennis Wilson said. “We sure want to meet
the winner, but we want to tell them, sign the back of the ticket
and secure it,” he said.
Kansas law also allows lottery winners to remain
anonymous, though lottery winners in Illinois are
identified.
Lang said each winning ticket was expected to be worth more
than $213 million before taxes.
The winning numbers in Friday night’s drawing were
02-04-23-38-46, and the Mega Ball 23.
Carole Everett, director of communications for the Maryland
Lottery, said the last time a ticket from the state won a major
national jackpot was 2008 when a ticket sold for $24
million.
“We’re thrilled,” she said. “We’re due and
excited.”
The estimated jackpot dwarfs the previous $390 million
record, which was split in 2007 by two winners who bought tickets
in Georgia and New Jersey.
Americans spent nearly $1.5 billion for a chance to hit the
jackpot, which amounts to a $462 million lump sum and around $347
million after federal tax withholding. With the jackpot odds at 1
in 176 million, it would cost $176 million to buy up every
combination. Under that scenario, the strategy would win $171
million less if your state also withholds taxes.
From coast to coast, people stood in line at retail stores
Friday for one last chance at striking it rich.
Maribeth Ptak, 31, of Milwaukee, only buys Mega Millions when
the jackpot is really big and she bought one on Friday at a
Milwaukee grocery store. She said she’d use the money to pay off
bills, including school loans, and then she’d donate a good portion
to charity.
“I know the odds are really not in my favor, but why not,”
she said.
Sawnya Castro, 31, of Dallas, bought $50 worth of tickets at
a 7-Eleven. She figured she’d use the money to create a rescue
society for Great Danes, fix up her grandmother’s house, and
perhaps even buy a bigger one for herself.
“Not too big — I don’t want that. Too much house to keep
with,” she said.
Willie Richards, who works for the U.S. Marshals Service at a
federal courthouse in Atlanta, figured if there ever was a time to
confront astronomical odds, it was when $640 million was at stake.
He bought five tickets.
“When it gets as big as it is now, you’d be nuts not to
play,” he said. “You have to take a chance on Lady
Luck.”
A New York lottery spokeswoman was not able to say
immediately after the 11 p.m drawing if there were any Empire State
had any winners.
There were no lucky tickets sold in New Jersey, a lottery
spokeswoman confirmed.
The Garden State did have five $250,000 winners.
A California lottery spokesman said the Golden State had 29
players who matched five of the six numbers.
Before the epic drawing, New Yorkers lined up yesterday to
buy tickets at newsstands and lottery stores across the city. and
the lines beefed up once office workers stepped out for their lunch
breaks.
Bus driver Rocco Fortunato stood outside a lotto store at the
Port Authority and said he was buying a second batch of
tickets.
“Fifty of us pooled tickets at $5 each,” he said of his
co-workers at New Jersey Transit.
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday said he wasn’t likely to join the
hordes swamping lottery sellers in hopes of snagging a winning
ticket.
Then again, why would he care about millions when he’s worth
$22 billion?
“The chances of me getting hit by lighting are greater than
[winning],” Bloomberg chuckled on his weekly WOR radio
show.
The practical-minded mayor said he isn’t much of a fan of
gambling of any sort.
“My view on gambling is, if you want to do it understand that
legally the state is going to take 15 percent every time you roll
the dice, ask for another card at a blackjack hand, buy a lottery
ticket.”
Americans were expected to have spent $1.46 billion on Mega
Millions tickets by yesterday.
Among those hopefuls was lottery louse Americo
Lopes.
The New Jersey hardhat — who was recently forced to pay five
former co-workers their fair share of a $24 million jackpot after
he tried to keep an office jackpot for himsef — thought he’d try
his sorry luck by buying $6 worth of tickets for last night’s
drawing.
“He was here [yesterday] morning” buying tickets, said a
clerk at the Maggie Mart in Elizabeth, NJ, where Lopes bought the
winning $24 million ticket he tried to claim for
himself.
He could use the dough.
Lopes had planned to buy a $1.45 million house in Boonton,
NJ. and is now in a legal battle over allegedly pulling out of a
contract to purchase the home.
