Robinson did say that he had signed the back of the ticket, showing his ownership of it.
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When co-host Carson Daily asked whether he was nervous about carrying a ticket worth more than $100 million in his front pocket, Robinson admitted that, “Now I’m nervous because everybody knows”.
The couple’s daughter and their dog Abby were by their side when they went to the lottery headquarters.
The couple bought the ticket at Naifeh’s Food Mart, a grocery store one block from their home, at 6:56 p.m. on Wednesday night.
He said they were excited about their winnings but were “a little scared” about their future.
Friday morning John and Lisa Robinson went on national TV to show off their winning Powerball ticket. “We didn’t get enough sleep”.
Believing the news to be true, nursing home administrator David Levy said it was a “fantastic” thing to happen for his loyal employee.
They have no plans to move from their small, gray, one-story house in Munford, a town of about 6,000 north of Memphis.
The family said they will go to the Tennessee lottery office later Friday.
Their daughter, Tiffany, lives nearby and recently graduated from college at Murray State, and their son, Adam, is an electrician, ABC News reported. Lottery spokeswoman Rachel Petrie said she could not confirm the win meanwhile.
One example cited by Don McNay, a Richmond, Kentucky, financial adviser who also has represented lottery winners, is Abraham Shakespeare, a Lakeland, Florida, janitor won a cash payout of $17 million in the Florida lottery in 2006.
In towns and cities across the country, millions of would-be billionaires, many of them who had never before played a lottery, stood in long lines to buy tickets.
A couple with a winning ticket in the US’s historic $2.3 billion lottery jackpot have revealed themselves on live television before even having their prize confirmed.
“Who will be coming out of the woodwork?” “He’s a civic-minded person, and he probably will remember the town”. That’s when her son sent her a photo of the winning ticket, according to published reports.
“They’re small-town people who appreciate community, appreciate family values.
Just great hard-working, deserving people”, said Mayor Dwayne Cole.
Robinson said earlier Friday that they would help certain friends, give to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, and donate to their church. His wife stayed up to watch the drawing, and started “hollering and screaming through the hallway saying, ‘You need to check these numbers”.
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Iowa prosecutors say a computer expert working for the Multi-State Lottery Association, or MUSL, which runs games for 37 member states and US territories, figured out how to rig number-generating computers to pick his set of numbers. The winners of the world-record jackpot who overcame odds of 1 in 292.2 million can either collect 30 annual payments totaling an estimated $533 million, or take their third of $983.5 million in cash all at once.
