Woman fails to join lottery pool, co-workers share winnings - CBS46 News

One man skipped to another line and bought a bunch of tickets before Finkelstein Reader could get her second batch. Piccolo won $175,000. He kept the winnings for himself but three co-workers took him to court, claiming his ticket was purchased through an office pool. Piccolo spent about $28,000 -- nearly all of his $43,750 share. A judge froze his accounts so he couldn't spend the rest of the money and the matter was eventually settled before trial. Edward Hairston diligently contributed to his lottery office pool—eight long, jackpot-free years. While he was on medical leave, his coworkers played the Mega Millions and won $99 million. Their verdict: Hairston isn't entitled to any of that money. Maldonado, who was laid off from her previous job and has a 4-year-old son with autism, had not yet received her first paycheck on her new job, so she opted to save her money. Had the ticket also included the red Powerball number, the group would have hit the big jackpot of $338 million. You're more likely to get struck by lightning (with odds of about one in 960,000), but you still have a better chance of winning the lottery than picking a perfect March Madness bracket, which, according to Miecznikowski, is about 500 times less likely. Powerball jackpot at a record $1.5 billion, everyone wants a piece of the action. But if your own office is doing a pool, things get a lot more dicey, in your wild billionaire fantasies actually become a reality. But if your own office is doing a pool, things get a lot more dicey, in your wild billionaire fantasies actually become a reality. Or plan on spending the years you should be spending sailing around the world in your yacht full of money tied up in a complicated and messy court battle. Canadian workplaces. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLGC) estimates there are 100,000 group lottery pools in that province alone. Many are casual affairs, a simple list of names scrawled on a piece of scrap paper. In most cases, co-workers will never have the good fortune to have to fight about how to split a jackpot. Maldonado had only worked at Keller Williams Realty for two weeks and hadn't yet received her first paycheck when the office's team leader, Laurie Finkelstein Reader, began collecting $20 to spend on Powerball tickets. Seven Indianapolis hair stylists have sued another co-worker, claiming she cut them out of a $9.5 million jackpot last month. That woman was in charge of buying the group's tickets. She claims the winning one was bought with her own money. And in New Jersey, Americo Lopes was in charge of his lottery pool at work. Then he quit his construction job. The very next week, he claimed he had won the MegaMillions lottery. Turns out, he bought the winning ticket before he quit. A jury has ordered him to split the windfall: $38.5 million. Elizabeth, N.J., sued Americo Lopes for a share of a $38.5 million prize. Lopes was responsible for buying the pool's ticket, but claimed that he bought the winning ticket separately for himself. In 2012, a jury found that the five co-workers, some of whom considered Lopes family, did have a right to a share of the winnings. Piqua, Ohio, sued 15 of their colleagues for a share of a $207 million prize. The four had been absent the day the tickets were purchased, but claimed that pool members regularly covered for each other. Steffan, an attorney in the Durham, N.C., area, advises on her website that pool members should have a signed agreement explicitly spelling out who's in the pool, who will buy the tickets and how winnings will be split. There have been a number of lawsuits over the years from workers claiming colleagues unjustly cut them out of an office pool's lottery winnings. Claire Bissot, managing director of CBIZ HR Services. Managers generally see such office pools as a good opportunity for camaraderie, she said, but you could be in for a reprimand if colleagues feel bullied into contribution or wrongly excluded from participating. Tucker, a 23-year-old classroom assistant at Woodman Elementary School, received an e-mail from a PE teacher this week, asking if he wanted to throw some money into the pot again. Florida. Jennifer Maldonado, who started working at the firm two weeks ago and had yet to receive a paycheck, opted out of the $20 buy-in because she was watching her money.

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