Powerball jackpot co-winners Lisa and John Robinson of Munford, Tennessee, their lawyer Joe Townsend …
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At home, he laid out the four tickets, one representing each family member, and took a nap.
Tennessee Lottery has not verified the ticket, which John Robinson had been keeping in the front pocket of his shirt.
John Robinson says he bought the ticket and three others Wednesday night while on the way home.
California Lottery officials confirmed a winning ticket for the record-breaking Powerball jackpot drawn on Wednesday was sold at a Chino Hill’s 7-Eleven. NBC says they’ll receive roughly $327.8 million after taxes if they take the lump-sum payment.
Even the “Today” show anchors said they were nervous for the Robinsons walking around NY with the ticket.
David Levy, an operator at the center, told the publication that the lucky lotto victor was at work when she found out but completed her shift.
His wife said they had not had any time to think about what they would do with their share of the jackpot prize, but that she planned to return to work on Monday.
In Macomb and Oakland, eight winning $50,000 tickets were sold – four in each county. They explained they came to NY before turning in the ticket to Tennessee lottery officials.
Robinson carried the precious slip of paper to New York City and back before delivering the ticket Friday to lottery officials in Nashville.
Townsend wanted the Robinsons to call a national media outlet before cashing in their ticket to ensure that they could control their own story.
John Robinson works in information technology and his wife is employed at a dermatologist’s office in Memphis, which is about 25 miles south of Munford.
The couple revealed their plans to pay off their mortgage and their daughter’s college loans at a press conference, which their daughter, Tiffany, and their rescue dog, Abby, also attended.
A nurse in Pomona believed she had the winning ticket after her son told her as a prank that a ticket purchased by her boss, Shlomo Rechnitz, had the winning numbers.
The other two were sold in Tennessee and Florida, where no winners have been identified.
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The chances of someone buying just one of the winning tickets was as low as one in 292 million, but multiple jackpot winners were sold, meaning the recipients would split the earnings, the Los Angeles Times reports.
