Posted on 07/27/2016 11:38:41 AM PDT by Gamecock
“When I win the lottery ...”
How many of us have chanted that refrain, daydreaming about how we’d quit our jobs, grab our winnings and head to a secluded beach with the family to live in blissful paradise? Or whatever your imagination conjures life-after-hitting-the-jackpot to be.
Of course it hardly ever turns out that way. We’re always hearing about lottery winners who blew it all. But Ronnie Music Jr., 45, a former maintenance supervisor in Georgia, has taken the storyline to a new depth.
Music, who won $3 million in a scratch-off lottery game in Georgia last year, invested his winnings in meth. And got busted.
“Music decided to test his luck by sinking millions of dollars of lottery winnings into the purchase and sale of crystal meth,” U.S. Attorney Ed Tarver said in a Justice Department statement. “As a result of his unsound investment strategy, Music now faces decades in a federal prison.”
Music pleaded guilty last week to federal drug trafficking and firearm charges, according to Jacksonville, Fla., TV station News4Jax.
He and his cohorts were arrested in September while trying to sell about 11 pounds of crystal meth that Music had bought with his lottery winnings, the Justice Department news release said. As part of the investigation, authorities “seized more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine, a large cache of firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, multiple vehicles, and more than $600,000 in cash.”
The short-lived millionaire pleaded guilty last week and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Just a garden variety meth-head who happened to stumble into $3,000,000.
No hookers and booze? He wasted it.
How much will it cost the taxpayers to warehouse this idiot for the rest of his life?
Hey, at least he was constructive and used the cash to start a small business....
This makes a point about how many people out there will always be poor no matter how much is given to them or what their minimum wage is.
But all that lottery money sure is helping the school children!
I hear lots of people complaining about “Big Pharma”. This guy wanted to be “Little Pharma”. What’s wrong with that?
Three Million is not enough for what I want to do. I want to build section 8 housing and Wal Marts in places like Martha’s Vinyard, and Chappaquiddick, and any gated liberal community I could find. I would also like to build real universities, perhaps in places that do not yet have towns, that do not allow any diversity related department, and no majors that have the word “studies” or “science” in the title, with price tags that reasonable, and do not allow government loans of any kind.
It’s just twice the amount of work
Music now gets to spend time facing the music.
And Then Winner IS,,,?
Breaking Stupid.
It only works in the movies.
With the money he earns in prison workshops, will he be allowed to try his luck and buy more lottery tickets?
Stupid is as stupid does.
There are a number of “lottery winner” houses around here. Won the lottery, started building a huge addition to their homes, blew it all in several months. Now you can pass by these houses — unpainted plywood sides, piles of gravel and stones in the back yard for 10-15 years, water runoff gouging out the back yard.
Yikes, talk about high risk investment.
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