Posted on 05/16/2018 5:50:09 PM PDT by SMGFan
. He’s the luckiest man in the city’s poorest borough and he wants to stay that way.
An unemployed Bronx man — who doesn’t even have a bank account — became an instant millionaire last month when he scratched off a winning $5 million lottery ticket.
But the stuff of dreams quickly turned to sudden panic when he went to claim his prize — only to learn that he can’t collect the windfall without taking part in a press conference that will let everyone in the neighborhood know he’s loaded.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
No such thing as an anonymous lottery winner. Friends and relatives know and the news will get out regardless. But that won’t stop scammer lawyers and accountants who will milk winners by falsely claiming to preserve their anonymity.
And consider the case of Eddie Tipton, a multi-state lottery employee who rigged lotteries and with pals collected wins in multiple states. Allowing anonymous winners would certainly have allowed him and pals to get away with it.
He needs to get contact the lawyer who won the right for a Powerball winner in New Hampshire to remain anonymous. Even if that lawyer cannot practice in New York, he can advise (for a fee I imagine) a lawyer who can.
Don’t play the game if you aren’t gonna follow the rules.
If I ever won the lotto, my new job would be managing my fortune.
Find a neighborhood pub near your new digs.
Buy a few of the regular guys and gals a drink now and then.
Tip the bartender(s) fairly.
Within a week people will forget that you're a new guy and will think you've been a regular for a long time.
Yeah, they could - but then they could make a movie about journalists suppressing the truth about “Russia, Russia, Russia,” too. I recommend that you do not undertake to hold your breath.
https://nypost.com/2018/12/09/cuomo-vetoes-bill-allowing-lotto-winners-to-remain-anonymous/
Publicizing the name also “provides comfort that there was an actual winner’’ and ensures that the state is not “adding all the money to its own coffers,’’ he said.
Cuomo noted there’s long been a way to get around the anti-privacy rules: a winner can still create a limited liability corporation, or LLC, to collect the prize in its name.
The bill Cuomo vetoed had been popular, passing in the state Senate, 61-1, and in the Assembly, 140-3.
That’s not correct. The state allowed trusts to collect anonymously, but the winner signed the ticket as an individual. The court decided the winner could establish a trust anyway.
The issue is a joke. The winner is going to become known. It’s just that the lottery itself and the state won’t announce it. Debt collectors and other interested parties are indeed informed.
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