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Catskill still awaits its $122m lottery winner

Jan 25, 2011 6:13 am
No one had yet come forward as of Monday night to claim the $122,100,000 winning Powerball ticket sold at the Clothespin Laundromat at Catskill Commons on U.S. Route 9W, said an official with the New York state Lottery Division in a report published in the Daily Freeman out of Kingston this morning.




“It’s not unusual for a person to wait a day or two to let it sink in,” said Carolyn Hapeman, a lottery spokesperson.

As of Monday evening, laundromat owner Bhasu Patel said he also had not learned who had won.





The ticket sold in Catskill was the sole winning ticket for the top jackpot prize. Hapeman said ticketholders have a year to come forward to claim their winnings. The amount the winner or winners will get will be reduced by taxes and also depends on whether the ticket was for a lump sum payment or 30 payments over 29 years.

“Maybe the winner doesn’t want anyone to know,” Patel was quoting as saying from the laundry he's owned for years. “He’s going to have a lot of cousins he never knew he had before.”
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