Deli worker Pedro Quezada of Passaic, NJ claims winning $338M Powerball - New York Daily News

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[h=4]Bill Denver for NewYork Daily News[/h]Sumil Sethi (2nd R) owner of Eagle Liquors in Passaic, NJ where the $338 million Powerball Lottery ticket was sold is shown with his employess and family including lottery ticket salesman Pravin Mankodia (C).

Someone struck it rich from the $338 million Powerball — but not the guy who told a New Jersey truck stop he bought the golden ticket there, officials said Monday.
Whoever won the $338 million — the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history — bought the ticket at Eagle Liquor store in Passaic, lottery officials said.
Nobody’s stepped forward to claim the prize — but officials do know the lucky ticket wasn’t sold at Love Stop Travel in Bordertown, N.J.
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The truck stop manager Isaiah DeVries said a truck driver called the store around 11:30 p.m. Sunday saying the ticket he’d bought there turned out to be the winning one.
"He was excited. He said he won the lottery and asked how he could collect the jackpot," said DeVries.

[h=4]Bill Denver for New York Daily News[/h][h=4]Eagle Liquors in Passaic, NJ where the $338 million Powerball Lottery ticket was sold.[/h]
But the call mysteriously disconnected before DeVries could tell him how to claim his prize.
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“I don’t know what that was all about,” Carole Hedinger, New Jersey’s state lottery director said Monday.
Officials don’t expect the real winner to step forward for a few weeks. It’s not unusual for big winners to seek financial help before going public.
Hedinger had advice for whoever the winner is: “Sign the ticket immediately,” she said.
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[h=4]Bill Denver for New York Daily News[/h][h=4]Carole Hedinger, Executive Director of the New Jersey Lottery, announces that the winning $338 million Powerball ticket was sold at Eagle Liquors in Passaic, NJ and that the winner has not yet come forward.[/h]
The lump sum cash prize would be about $211 million before taxes, Hedinger estimated.
After the federal government takes its 25% cut and New Jersey gets 3%, the take home will about $152 million, she said.
The odds of taking home the top prize were about 1 in 175 million, she said.
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The numbers drawn were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31.
Lottery officials said 13 tickets worth $1 million apiece — matching the first five numbers but missing the Powerball — were sold in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.
No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot.