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Link is but here is the summary: (Dec 2015)
An Iraqi Kurd living in Baghdad won a $6.4 million Megabucks jackpot in Oregon.
He bought the winning through a privately operated website.
While the Oregon Lottery doesn't sell tickets online, Lottery Director Jack Roberts said he was advised that the man didn't do anything wrong and should get his winnings. The man was also able to persuade lottery officials not to release his name, although it is a public record under Oregon law.
The Iraqi asked to take his jackpot in installments over 25 years, and the lottery on Friday transferred $158,720 to a bank account he set up in Oregon. That's the amount of his annual prize after 38 percent was taken out for federal and state income taxes.
The man purchased the ticket through theLotter.com, a website based in London that resells lottery tickets it purchases around the world. Roberts said there could be potential issues over whether the website runs afoul of a federal ban on Internet gambling, but he said "there are more serious offenses [the feds] aren't prosecuting."
In any case, lottery spokesman Chuck Baumann said the winning ticket never left Oregon. It was purchased in Bend on Aug. 24 -- apparently by someone working for theLotter.com – and was collected by the Iraqi man after he traveled to Oregon.
An Iraqi Kurd living in Baghdad won a $6.4 million Megabucks jackpot in Oregon.
He bought the winning through a privately operated website.
While the Oregon Lottery doesn't sell tickets online, Lottery Director Jack Roberts said he was advised that the man didn't do anything wrong and should get his winnings. The man was also able to persuade lottery officials not to release his name, although it is a public record under Oregon law.
The Iraqi asked to take his jackpot in installments over 25 years, and the lottery on Friday transferred $158,720 to a bank account he set up in Oregon. That's the amount of his annual prize after 38 percent was taken out for federal and state income taxes.
The man purchased the ticket through theLotter.com, a website based in London that resells lottery tickets it purchases around the world. Roberts said there could be potential issues over whether the website runs afoul of a federal ban on Internet gambling, but he said "there are more serious offenses [the feds] aren't prosecuting."
In any case, lottery spokesman Chuck Baumann said the winning ticket never left Oregon. It was purchased in Bend on Aug. 24 -- apparently by someone working for theLotter.com – and was collected by the Iraqi man after he traveled to Oregon.