Posted on 04/27/2023 12:55:57 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
His big smile totally makes cents.
The California resident who became an overnight millionaire after winning the $2 billion Powerball prize flashed a wide grin as he was spotted dipping into his large fortune on Wednesday.
Edwin Castro was photographed taking out a fat envelope of cash from a Chase bank Wednesday with his newly hired security team in tow.
The lucky 30-year-old, who was dressed down in a quarter-zip Under Armour shirt, joggers and flip-flops while running his bank errand, added a whopping $997.6 million to his account when he won the largest lottery prize in US history last year.
Castro came forward in February to claim his winnings and opted for a one-time, lump-sum payment.
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In Hong Kong, lottery winners are guaranteed absolute anonymity and they will show up to claim their prizes with police escort and a bag on their head
There are cases of gangsters kidnapping and even killing lottery winners.
You can remain anonymous in almost all states if you know the right lawyers. Create a trust and then the trust collects the winnings. The trust can be called “Big Lottery Trust #1”.
I read about one case in Florida, where a black couple won $500,000. Sometime soon after somebody invaded their home to rob them and kill them.
If you win a lottery, you have to move and come up with some basic story as to why you don’t have to work for a living, or you work from home. You can’t seem too prosperous, that just brings trouble.
Somebody might kill this guy, unless he’s already shelled out for security.
The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention…It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant…the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons.
– 1984
Death watch starts now.
V_TWIN wrote: “Still, this event was no doubt easily avoidable.”
How so when every person on the street has a cell phone with a camera.
Yeah the story mentioned he arrived at the bank with his security team. They don’t work for free. He’ll be lucky to be alive or broke in 5 years
I can build a detailed pro file on you in seconds. All I need is your name and the state you live in.
With all that money he should get his tits fixed. Total man boobs
I would at least have some sort of security detail........ain’t like he can’t afford it. 😏
That would be a curse to suddenly have that much money. However, I’d rather be rich and miserable, than poor and miserable.
Does this make him a member of the WEF “elitists” that want to destroy us?
I’ve seen European ads, where a fortune teller, in a tent, offers to read your fortune. While he’s asking basic questions. In a nearby hotel room, they show a bunch of guys with computers building a profile of this person. By the end of the one minute commercial, they have 30 page dossier of the person who got their fortune read and their given the dossier and told to pick their mouths off the floor.
Article states that he has round-the-clock bodyguards.
Well you hear about the legions of lottery winners who run through all the money and end up broke. But entirely squandering a billion dollars, after taxes, would be quite the fete.
If he lives and banks in an area of paparazzi where photos of famous people are taken, and then sold, to things like the NY Post, it’s tough to avoid them.
Well I guess he’s not a complete moron. 😏
It’s all public data. I just aggregate it. Kind of scary...
First thing I’d do would be get the hell out of California
Didn't Whitey Bulger do this? IIRC, some guy came into a bar bragging about winning about $1 million in the lottery and having the ticket right in his pocket. Since an unsigned lottery ticket is basically a bearer bond, Bulger and his friends helped themselves to the ticket.
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