I think I would want to meet with a damn good accountant before I turned that ticket in.
Forget the accountant. First you will need 3 armed bodyguards. I just read about a kidnapping who had received $2.2 Millon settlement in court. $1.4 Billion is 636 times bigger than $2.2 million.
The accountant to advise how to maximize the deductions.
I would want a reputable lawyer to basically give me a credit card to live off of, while he pays it off through his fees, so that I can hide out in a high secure building for a while until I’m forgotten about.
And family trust lawyer.
I buy one ticket per $100 million.
No tickets below %100 million.
That limits my gambling, and should I ever win, it will be big.