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She may not want bill collectors to find out that she now has the money to pay her dept, or she knows that her family and extended family or a ex husband would try and benefit from her good luck.
That must be it!
She must be concerned that those unpaid parking tickets and that sofa she defaulted on will really eat into her hundreds of millions of dollars in winnings!
I really don't blame her. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is going to come out of thin air and try to leech something off of her.
I agree. It can be overwhelming, many con artists and others will come out of the woodwork. Hopefully she can remain anonymous and collect the winnings. If not, she will have to run away somewhere and drop off the grid for a long while. Which is possible at least for a while with those resources. Problem is the article states she is an active member of her community, meaning she values her life and home in N.H. Having to run off practically overnight is very stressful. Leave family, friends, and a community you care about so quickly.
That's fine. Her choice to make. One could argue that she should have known the rules before she bought her ticket, but who expects to win?
Still, she is making a very foolish choice if she thinks her privacy is worth more than $300 million. She could certainly make arrangements with a financial adviser to protect the money.
"live lawfully" "makes ya wonder if supposed claimant was legit" "hide their identity" "something to hide"
what on earth?
It's an absolutely legitimate concern this woman has for wanting to remain anonymous. I find your disdain for privacy a bit odd.
You buy the ticket, you agree to their rules - which include making your name public and posing for publicity photos. As an earlier poster noted, the public is paying for the prize by buying tickets, so they are entitled to see the winner.
Also, there was a very recent scam in the midwest where a worker with the lottery fixed the game so his relatives could win. Finally got caught and went to jail - they didn't get mega huge prizes so it stayed under the radar for a while - if they tried to do this with a mega jackpot it would have been seen through quickly.
Really, if you win a mega jackpot, you pretty much will have to move to a different state and into a gated community or such until the publicity blows over and probably for years people will be out to get a piece of the $.
Here is the glitch:
Maura McCann, a spokeswoman with the New Hampshire Lottery Commission, tells NPR that the state's Right to Know law allows them to reveal the identity of the person whose name is written on the ticket. But a loophole would let the winner's identity be shielded if the name of a trust is written on the back of the ticket instead. The trustee's name would then be the one to be released, and that could be anybody, including a friend or a lawyer, McCann says.
The winner wrote her name on the ticket......and wants to change it to a trust before claiming the ticket.
I really don't blame her. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is going to come out of thin air and try to leech something off of her.
Just because she goes public for a very short time in order to claim the win, does not mean loads of people wanting money will have the ability to contact her after that. She could change her number, email address, etc and even stay at another place temporarily.
Yeah 'her' safety is far more valued then other citizens. Let's give her special privilege.
The reality is: she becomes public record in filing with the courts. She has a great legal team though...how clever of them to represent her and say....Sure,let's get the courts to override the lottery rules...because you are 363 million dollars more important. (363 is the projected after tax ).
Shocker is this. Not every lottery winner is killed / murdered...matter of fact more go on living life without incident. Minus the few who went bankrupt ....
She put the cart before the horse. Claim it first then go about forming trusts and building the bunker.
Incorrect: Cash value is $358.5 million for Powerball.
So then you pay federal tax (37%) for this year with the new tax law. So take the 358.5 and deduct 37% for taxes and you get to keep 226 million in cash.
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