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Government Workers Win Powerball Lottery
18-Mar-2008
Written by: Roxanna Bain
Lottery officials are scheduled to officially announce Powerball winners in a press conference on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.
The Associated Press is reporting that the luck of the Irish was with eight women who work in West Virginia’s Monongalia County tax office last Saturday night when the numbers were drawn for the seventh-largest jackpot in Powerball history.
One of the winners’ husbands told the AP that one of his wife’s co-winners delivered the news to their home at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. With the news of his wife’s share of the winnings being approximately $12 million, sheriff’s deputy Roger Mago promptly turned in a resignation letter and said, "It's their day. I'm just tagging along."
The West Virginia Lottery is working to confirm the validity of the ticket and has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon, spokeswoman Libby White said.
If the ticket is validated, the group would receive a lump sum payout of nearly $140 million before taxes. After taxes, the payout would be $95.5 million, White said. If divided eight ways, each person would receive nearly $12 million.
Powerball is played in 29 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The record jackpot was $365 million won by eight workers at a Nebraska meatpacking plant in February 2006.
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