“I checked them, actually, four times, and I said ‘Well, I’ll believe it when the news comes on in the morning and they say hey, there’s a victor been in Munford, ‘” John said.
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For every $1 worth of Powerball sales, half goes to prizes, 40 per cent is earmarked for things such as education, and ten per cent goes to retailers who sell the tickets and administrative costs, Grief said.
The couple, joined by their lawyer and daughter, displayed their winning ticket on the Today show on Friday morning.
Workers at the nursing home – with the exception of the victor – gathered around a television to watch the live drawing while clutching the tickets purchased for them by chain owner Shlomo Rechnitz, sad David Levy, senior manager for the center.
The couple, on their lawyer’s advice, agreed to travel to NY on Thursday night to appear on NBC’s Today show early on Friday. “Now I’ll be nervous because everybody knows”.
Each of the winners can choose to collect 30 annual payments totaling an estimated 533 million dollars, or take their third of about 327.8 million dollars in cash at once.
“They were rightly a little suspicious”, Townsend said.
The jackpot from Wednesday night’s drawing will be split by winners in Tennessee (Robinson family), California and Florida.
As for what they plan to do with the money, they say they hope to continue living a quiet life in Munford.
One of the three winners of the record-breaking Powerball lottery jackpot in the United States became wealthy overnight thanks to the generosity of her boss, one of the American Jewish community’s leading philanthropists.
The owner of Naifeh’s in Munford said John bought the ticket at their store just before 7 p.m. Wedesday.
Lisa, who works in a dermatologist’s office, said she loves her job and plans on working despite the huge prize. “I went running down the hall, yelling, ‘John, John, you gotta check these numbers'”.
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Rebecca Hargrove, second from right, president and CEO of the Tennessee Lottery, presents a ceremonial check to John Robinson, right; his wife, Lisa, second from left; and their daughter, Tiffany, left; on January 15, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.
