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UPDATED: Winning Lotto Texas ticket worth $13 million purchased at Lewisville Fina Mart
Updated 12:31 p.m., December 21, 2008
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LEWISVILLE — Someone in Lewisville won the Lotto Texas lottery on Saturday for $13 million. A ticket was purchased at a Fina Mart at 1890 S. Old Orchard Lane in Lewisville with the numbers 11-13-49-18-26-6. The winner picked those numbers, rather than having them generated randomly by a computer, and chose to have the pay-out made in annual payments of about $390,000 after taxes for the next 25 years. This is nice: Sang Kim, owner of the Fina Mart, gets 1 percent of the earnings.
UPDATE: And the winner is Lewisville assistant police chief Joni Eddy, who was quoted in a statement as saying that, "The last two weeks have been crazy. I haven't slept much, and there's been a great deal of paperwork to do so I could claim this prize." She plans on continuing to work at the police department but is going to buy a new SUV.
Posted by T.G.
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Collin Gouldin Verified
Wonder how much longer they'll be a Lewisville resident.
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Purchased there doesn't necessarily mean they live there, you strawberry-dipping fiend.
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alex Bentley Staff
Come on, everybody knows you ALWAYS take the lump sum!
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
LadyKDA Anonymous
Congrats to the winner - that is 'around the corner' from me (darn it). But I agree with Alex, $13 million is not enough to take the 25-year annuity payments, with taxes and all. I'd have done the lump sum, too...
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
ch0 Anonymous
Meh, it's still a doctor's salary for the next quarter-century. Could be worse!
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
no you don't have to be sco-do ... but i don't think you shop at THAT fina just for the fun of it... it's not really in a busy part of the town.
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Even if they took a 35% hit on the lump sum, slapping the remaining $8.45MM ($13MM x .65) into bonds or something equally safe would yield enough to live on.
I'm sure I'd take a mil out to play around with, but $7.45MM at a 4% APR is still $298,000 a year. Don't cash out for a year and a day, take the long-term capital gains tax of 15%...still net roughly a quarter mil.
Obv I'm not a financial adviser or anything, just sayin'. Wonder what the advantage is in spreading it out over 25 yrs...guess it depends on how much you can itemize, etc. Methinks you could net much more in interest on the lump sum over 25 yrs than potential tax savings, plus you've got a pot of gold at your disposal should you become terminally ill or simply get a wild hair. =p
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Btw, if I were the lottery, I'd certainly pay off a few "advisers" to push people towards annual payments so I could bank the interest myself. =p I see what they did there.
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
When I ever play, I admit my lack of patience outright and go "single payment." If I were patient, I'd already be rich. Right?
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
What happens if the winner dies? Do they just stop paying? Seems like if you don't take the cash option, your heirs would be screwed.
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
i really don't think they people who play the lotto are usually the money savvy type...
6 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Can't believe there's not a I TOLD YOU SO already.
I lolled about the SUV, then died a little inside. Maybe we'll get lucky and she'll test out the Escalade hybrid?
Also, you're doing it wrong by telling people imo.
6 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Collin Gouldin Verified
and i stick by my last statement ...
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