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Subscribe to RSSA Maryland woman who says she purchased one of the winning Mega Millions lottery tickets now claims the ticket has been misplaced. WRC's Shomari Stone reports.
A mother-of-seven who claimed she was one of the winners of the $656 million Mega Millions lottery told NBC News on Thursday that she has lost the ticket.
Mirlande Wilson, 37, claims she bought the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven in Baltimore, but so far none of the three winners -- the two others were in Illinois and Kansas -- has actually come forward to claim the money.
Asked by NBC Washington’s Shomari Stone whether she was going to ask for her share, Wilson said, "if I find it [the ticket]."
Stone then asked Wilson if she had lost the ticket and she replied, "I misplaced it."
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She was reportedly responsible for a McDonald's employee pool of Mega Millions tickets, but has said that the winning ticket wasn’t part of the pool.
On Wednesday, Wilson’s lawyer Edward Smith Jr., asked the press to leave her alone. Journalists gathered in his office and were then told to go away.
"That's really it … to ask you to go back to your places," Smith said.
Woman who claims to be Mega Millions winner: Leave me alone
Wilson, a Haitian immigrant, told Stone that her situation was "really stressful."
Amid continuing doubts about her story, Stone asked her if she had made it up.
"I didn’t make up the story," Wilson told him. "I did not make up no story to get no attention."
Maryland Lottery director Stephen Martino said the winner has until Sept. 28 to claim the prize. The winner has to do so in person, but doesn't have to make their identity public. Two other winning tickets were sold in Illinois and Kansas.
Stephen Martino, Director of the Maryland lottery, tells reporters that as of now, no one has approached the lottery claiming to be the holder of a winning Mega Millions ticket.
Martino said the winning ticket was sold at approximately 7:15 p.m. on March 30 -- less than four hours before the drawing -- at the 7-Eleven on Liberty Avenue in Baltimore. It was a Quick Pick ticket, and was the only one purchased at that time.
Martino said that officials have looked at surveillance tape at the 7-Eleven, but that there is an issue because the timestamp on the tape does not exactly match the timestamp of the lottery ticket machine, so they can't be exactly sure who bought the ticket from that video.
Because of all of the rumors swirling around who possesses the ticket, Martino is urging people who bought tickets at the 7-Eleven to check their tickets again to make sure they don't have the winner. He said he hopes that people haven't thrown out their tickets thinking that someone else won, only to have had the winning ticket all along.
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This poor woman needs Perry Bacon, Al Sharpton and the panthers to jump in for her and to assert a claim that mega millions is racist and is disenfranchising this poor black victim of her natural born entitlement and reparation rights.
Why is it that BLACKS have to make everything racial Bill?
I'm asking you Bill, since CLEARLY you are black.
Freda: Ever heard of SARCASM? I can see it CLEARLY. What's your excuse?
Freda: see Indi's answer... Although there are some people who would literally agree with what I posted, I thought it was obvious enough to the majority of folks that it was sarcastic.
LOL I enjoyed all the clever "fish" comments.
aww, sharks, it wern't nuthin :)
Tim you have a serious problem. I would like to suggest that you seek help to undo the damage that your parents may have instilled in you. People with your kind of mind set should NEVER a lotto of that kind of magnitude. How could you consider yourself Clean with all that bile you are spewing??
WHY IS IT THAT BLACKS HAVE TO MAKE EVERYTHING INTO A RACIAL ISSUE?! I'M SO SICK OF IT! ITS YOU BLACKS THAT ARE DIVIDING THIS COUNTRY! NO ONE WOULD CARE ABOUT RACE IF YOU!! DIDNT BRING IT UP.......
now.....let me just say something completely racist about this lottery story, that starts with "living off my tax dollars.....gold teeth" and ends with "Al Sharpton and Obama". And I'll be happy for 30 minutes or so.
{Welcome to America}
The lottery is the only way to collect taxes on poor black folk who flip burgers and contribute little to society aside from giving us an endless supply of criminals and dead-beat dads.
Oh so funny. I ficken love it! Laughing so hard.
Just start reading back on the previous comments, blind and stupid. See if you can read the racist and asinine comments from, most likely, your white brethren. And, see if you can ACKNOWLEDGE it.
THEY are the ones who have brought race into it with their typical ignorance. As usual.
It's ALWAYS the typical "welfare queen" garbage talk, with them. But, the lowlife and ignorant white like this, is just "trailer trash" or just an aberration. To hear THEM tell the story, that is.
Race has as much to do with this story, as Obama does. But, these numbnuts mentioned HIM in these comments, too.
Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, Perry Bacon (the Grio), Jesse Jackson and ultimately MSNBC who gives them the air time to spread their pro black radical racist views. To them, anyone who is not black inherently hates black people, and anything any non black person ever does is with the secret intent to restore slavery and insult the black race. They suffer from persecutory delusions and instead of taking medication they are allowed on TV to try to convince others that their delusions are real.
While MSNBC glorifies and encourages black racism, any white person who held similar views on their own race would be labled and (rightfully) portrayed as a racist hateful scumbag.
@Bill....Well said!
I can't believe that they're still giving her this excessive media attention. To someone THIS stupid and/or unstable.
What positive outcome could she have POSSIBLY believed that she could have gotten out of LYING about having this ticket?
When the truth comes out that its a bogus claim (AFTER her identity is known by all, that is), WHO would want to hire her? Who would want to work with her? AFTER (if it hasn't happened already), she gets fired from McDonald's.
The winning ticket was a quick pick so how would she have known she won if she lost the ticket. Did she memorize the numbers? None of this makes sense.
Perhaps this lady should ask her voodoo doll, where is
the ticket?
This lady is a clown. I wonder who is going to come forward to claim this prize. She is worthless.
7 kids?? Must be REALY dark where she was and she bought the booze. Lost the ticket? BS!!!
I didn't think McD spandex uniform pants could stretch that much! Just say no to CRACK!
LOL, you people gotta get a life! I don't know if she's telling the truth or not but I won't make a judgement about her one way or another until I have the facts.
I've only scanned a few of the comments posted here but those reveal little more than an innate racist mindset in most of the posts.
I love liberals. Rick, why don't you take her and her brood in so you can support them?
Mother of 7, how many babay daddys, Poor Grammar, dishonety written all over her face! Go back to Haiti and take some Celeb's with you!
Boy do we have garbage living in our Country these days!
Im sure the real winner will turn out to be white, NBC will go bat@!$%# crazy and call Jesse and Al for the purpose of protesting the evil whitey and his/her thieving ways and Obama will lament on how if he had a sister she would look just like Mirlande.
No tickie, no laundry.
Give them another week to claim the money or do the drawing again. This is riduculous. You win over $100 million each and no one wants to come forward and claim it? WTF?
Did anyone really believe her story to begin with? Well, she had her 15 minutes....NEXT!
Could be related to Obama, both seem to have problems producing important documents, birth certificate, misplacing tickets, and misplacing American values, ethics, and Bill of Rights. Somehow we all owe them something.
She never had a ticket. Just wanted attention for her boring little life!
Obama will print her out some free money. No worries.
I think she lied and said it was her ticket to get ALL the money (like she would know how to invest it anyway), and now it is KARMA paying her back for her greed I honestly think she has lost the ticket and it won't be found by anyone in that state unless you go to the local landfill and by luck find it....September will roll around and that jackpot will be up for grabs again, don't these people have safe's????
How did this become a racist issue? She's just a stupid person that wants 15 minutes of fame. Obama, Jessie or Al didn't tell her to do this but maybe Andrea Yates or Susan Smith did. Maybe it's the KKK thying to make blacks look bad.
I'm sure your on to something here, and I'll bet Rush Limbaugh has got something to do with it too!
This woman is nuttier than a Haitian fruitcake! And what a classy cap!
i think she placed it next to her birth control...
why does the media/press feel so compelled to give time/credence/coverage to this woman? from day one all she wanted was exposure in the media, and she got what she wanted... she won her jackpot! who cares???? no more important issues to concern ourselves with, oh like gas at $4.00+ a gallon!!!!! give me a break!
How can you lose something you never had? Ok your 15 minutes are up. Next.