Showing posts with label Mega Millions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mega Millions. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

'I Wake Up Every Morning, and Everyone is On Me Like Stink on S- - -'

Not that Jimmy Groves is seeking my advice, but assuming he's telling the truth and is indeed a winner of last week's Mega Millions, here it is:

Get out of town fast. Once the folks in your neighborhood see this your safety should probably be the primary concern.
What's in this Harlem man's wallet? He says $168 million.

James "Jimmy" Groves -- a Madison Square Garden laborer who recently defaulted on his Capital One credit-card debt -- yesterday told The Post that he's the person who won half of a $336 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot two weeks ago.

"It feels great!" said Groves, 49, near his home in the crime-riddled Grant Houses. "I'm going to Disney World!

"I was down and out, and I didn't have a dime in my pocket. I asked for a lottery ticket, in 26 installment payments. And the next day, I won $166 million.

"Then the lottery people called me back and told me it was [actually] $168 million," said the father of two, who has not been publicly confirmed by lottery officials as the winner.

Groves has yet to collect on what would be yearly payments of $6.47 million before taxes. But he is already learning that with all that money comes mighty big headaches.

He said that since telling family and pals he won, he's been fielding up to 40 calls each morning from friends, acquaintances and others begging for cash.

"It's hectic," said Groves, who had been working the midnight shift at Madison Square Garden stacking chairs. "I wake up every morning, and everyone is on me like stink on s- - -.

"Right now, I'm frustrated. I feel like my family is in a position of jeopardy," he said. "This is a dangerous neighborhood.

"It's a dream turned into a nightmare. Winning is the beginning. Living with it is pure hell.

"I know people say, 'Give me that hell.' Be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it."

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Ex-Con Sex Offender Wins Mega Millions

This guy has done several stretches in jail and if it weren't for plea bargains, he'd probably still be in the joint for sexual assault on a 13-year-year-old.

Alas, he hits the lottery.
Michigan's latest Mega Millions millionaire doesn't owe the state a penny for his five years of room and board in prison.

Any debt to society for the Kent City man's keep was cleared when he went free.

As word of Fred Topous' $57 million winning ticket spread, prison officials on Wednesday asked the attorney general's office if costs for time he served in prison could be recovered, as is allowed in some cases.

Wednesday's answer: No.

Topous, in prison or on parole for all but three years since 1984 for three separate convictions, was discharged from the Department of Corrections on Oct. 20, 2006, after successfully completing two years on parole, a corrections official said.

That means the attorney general can't go after any of his assets as it has with others, including Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

"As long as you've been discharged from the Michigan Department of Corrections, we can't start litigation to cover the cost of his care," said Rusty Hills, spokesman for Attorney General Mike Cox.

"It's his good luck and our bad luck."
Well, this is America and the man served his time, so be it.

Besides, he's not the first reported sex offender to hit the lottery in recent years.