Plumber from New York won the 136 million dollar lottery

New York plumber Anthony Perosi won $136 million in the Powerball lottery. For a month, the man did not even realize that he had become the owner of a large sum of money.

Perosi bought his ticket at the 7-Eleven convenience store on Page Avenue on Staten Island in early March. On March 14, he heard in a diner that the winning card was the one sold in that store. However, one of the cafe visitors said that the victory went to a certain teacher, and Perosi did not check his ticket.

On April 27, the plumber finally decided to find out the winning combination of lottery numbers when he needed money to repair his truck. After checking the details of the draw on the Internet, the man discovered that he had won the “jackpot.”

Perosi decided to share his winnings with his son and gave him 30 percent of the amount. After paying all the taxes Perosi Sr. received 38 million 612 thousand 55 dollars, his son got 16 million 548 thousand and 23 dollars.

The plumber told me that he was going to spend some of the money on a new truck, as well as go on a trip to the state of New York.

According to the lottery rules, there is an option to receive the maximum winnings through annual payments for 30 years. If you withdraw the amount at once, it may turn out to be several times less than the nominal “jackpot”.

In the Powerball lottery, you select six numbers from two blocks - five different numbers from the first block (white balls), from 1 to 59, and one from another block (red balls), from 1 to 35.