the place is the New Jersey successful ticket holder? – NBC New York
In a shoreline New Jersey group, there is a thriller unfolding that nobody appears to know the reply to: why hasn’t the large jackpot winner come ahead?
Again in March, the successful ticket for the billion-dollar Mega Thousands and thousands jackpot was bought at a ShopRite in Neptune Township. The shop that proudly boasts promoting the $1.13 billion ticket nonetheless hasn’t seen anybody come ahead previously six months.
“I am shocked. This can be a large deal,” James Carey, government director of the New Jersey lottery, stated.
The New Jersey Lottery has a warning for the fortunate winner: the clock is ticking. The lottery winner solely has one yr from the date of the drawing to return ahead and accumulate the prize. In any other case, the prize goes unclaimed.
“Possibly they’re getting their geese in a row, perhaps they’re getting their affairs so as. We do not know what is going on on right here,” Carey stated.
The thriller surrounding the lacking winner has been the discuss of the city because the starting of the yr. With every passing day, locals need to know what’s taking so lengthy.
“They might’ve thrown it away,” Brenda Schriber, of Neptune, stated.
“I do not know in the event that they threw it out, however they in all probability put it apart with a bunch of different lottery tickets. They will do what I am doing, going house and checking them,” John Walsh stated.
Lottery officers stated it is not unprecedented for this a lot time to cross. It took about this lengthy for a billion-dollar South Carolina winner to return ahead a couple of years in the past. However time is working out, and if the prize goes unclaimed, the cash goes again to the states that play the sport.
“It isn’t any enjoyable for us on the New Jersey Lottery does not come ahead and declare their prize,” Carey stated. “And I can inform that participant: in New Jersey, the regulation says that lottery winners can stay nameless.”
