A man who says he purchased the winning ticket but had it rejected by the California Lottery filed a lawsuit Wednesday, alleging he is being wrongfully denied the jackpot. The closest lottery office to where the ticket was sold is in a business park near the Van Nuys Airport. Brandy Milliner said he turned in the ticket but the lottery sent him a letter saying it was “too damaged to be reconstructed” and that “the lottery is unable to process your claim”.
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Luck may have run out for the victor of a California Lottery jackpot: The person has apparently let $63 million slip through their fingers.
The winning numbers are: 9, 10, 11, 15, 17 and 20 with a bonus number of 16.
Milliner filed papers to sue the California Lottery and the state of California on Wednesday in hopes of eventually being declared the victor. He wants a judge to declare him the victor.
By filling out the form, an investigator with the California Lottery will look into the claim.
“We do have some claims to investigate”, he said in an email shortly before the 5.p.m deadline.
“Especially when you’re talking about millions and millions of dollars, those aren’t just processed through with a rubber stamp”, Traverso said. A large unclaimed prize has happened before in California, but not with a jackpot so massive. A winning ticket, worth €1million, was sold in Nutgrove Shopping Centre in November and under Lotto rules it’s about to expire.
Lottery officials said it would be the largest lottery prize ever forfeited in the state’s history, far surpassing the $28.5 million that went unclaimed in 2003. Otherwise, the $63 million will be spread out over 30 years.
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.
The unclaimed prize was won by someone in California on August 8, 2015, but no one has come forward to claim it. The Super Lotto Plus ticket was sold in Chatsworth, Los Angeles County, at a 7-Eleven store.
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A $77 million winning ticket in Georgia went unclaimed in 2011, and the Daily News could not find reports of a larger unclaimed sum in the U.S.
