The ticket was sold on August 8 at a 7-Eleven store on Lassen Street in the Chatsworth neighborhood.
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A California lottery victor could lose a $63 million dollar prize if they don’t claim their winnings by Thursday.
Lottery officials say they are looking into the claim.
They do plan to use it to verify the victor should he or she come forward.
The ticket matched all the numbers, 46-1-33-30-16 and the Mega number 24.
Milliner claims he presented the ticket to the Lottery Commission within the claim period and was given a form congratulating him on his winnings and explaining that he would receive a check in six to eight weeks from the state Controller’s Office, the suit states.
In papers filed Wednesday morning in Los Angeles County Superior Court, plaintiff Brandy Milliner said he already submitted the winning SuperLotto Plus ticket to lottery officials, and even received a congratulatory letter.
Mr Milliner is now asking a judge to declare him the victor of the jackpot.
“A California Lottery player is now mere hours away from forfeiting a fortune”, the California Lottery said in a news release. The current largest unclaimed prize is $28.5 million for a ticket sold in San Lorenzo in 2003. But one contender must certainly be a $77 million Powerball jackpot won in Georgia in 2011. “Every year in California there’s probably around $25 million that go unclaimed”.
A lottery ticket worth $63 million is set to become worthless trash if the owner doesn’t claim it by 5pm tomorrow.
That seems like a huge figure, but Traverso noted that the lottery paid out $3.9 billion in prizes previous year on sales of $5.5 billion.
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If the prize remains unclaimed, the money will go to support public schools.
