"This does not settle whether the winner is the McDonald's employee who said she had won but misplaced the ticket. "

Really? Did she quit her job? buy a new car? a new house? Give some more fake "interviews" trying to get her 15 minutes of fame for absolutely nothing?

Gee, I wonder if she won. (sarcasm)

Best explanation of what is
happening in America

The people who are forcing the people to pay for the free stuff have told the
people who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the people who are PAYING for the
free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist

The folks who are getting free stuff, don't like the folks who are paying for
the free stuff,
because the folks who are paying for
the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free
stuff and their own stuff.

Next on MSN: Ms Wilson sues anonymous winner claiming they stole her hidden ticket

Well, the winner is probably not Mirlande who is turning out to be a pathological liar

You folks are missing the point.

Here is the rest of the story:

• McDonalds employees gave money to Ms/Mrs Wilson to purchase Mega Millions tickets.
• Ms/Mrs Wilson purchased the tickets at the 7/11.
• Ms/Mrs Wilson found out she had winning "ticket" but did not want to "share the winnings".
• Ms/Mrs Wilson "hired" an attorney.
• Ms/Mrs Wilson stated she "hid" the ticket at McDonalds.
• Ms/Mrs Wilson later said she "lost" the ticket.
• Ms/Mrs Wilson's attorney conveniently said she would not make any more media appearances and to leave her alone.
• The attorney covertly "hired" someone to claim they had the winning ticket, and after "they" obtained the cash would provide Ms/Mrs Wilson and the Attorney a huge share of the winnings.

/END of Story/

It might be suggested that the Lottery Commission review all tapes at the "7/11" to determine who purchased the ticket. I am sure they had cameras up and running and verification should be simple enough. If the person who brings the ticket to the Lottery Commission is NOT the person on the camera, then all H*** will break loose at McDonalds and the Maryland Bar Association.

Seriously, I live in CA and if I had won a ticket I wouldn't come forward (In CA you have 6 months) until the last minute and I would have remained anonymous. Too many (including family) looking for handouts. I would share but on my terms and wouldn't want to be pressured. I give a lot to charity every year and would give even more. Too many around that would want, want, want.

There are many more than that who need, need, need, because there are too many greedy that have, have, have and could care less about the rest, rest, rest. So, next time try and feel, feel, feel, before you peg, peg, peg!

This Ms. Wilson cannot be arrested on any charges---it was, or is one, big fat lie, along with her ethical? lawyer. Who is he? What kind of license does he have to Practice Law?

What did she want out of all the publicity?--Book signings, Tabloid stories, Media and public attention? She thought America was a "Free Enterprise"; making money off of she thought stupid people. This Haitian lying, woman should be sent back to Haiti, if it is not her Lottery Ticket.

Her lawyer is in cahoots with her, just in case she might have the winning ticket. He is a winner, too, because he got publicity for future unethical clients to represent. This lawyer is plain Stupid, as stupid as Ms. Wilson. He may be Disbarred?. Did he do anything wrong.

What a huge waste of time, and mystery for Americans. Someone will step forward, who definitely had to stop this crazy Tabloid Story---who knows, the person may have waited the full 6 months---it takes a lot of time to reorganize one's life with $108,000,000.00 dollars---Anonymous may stay Anonymous.

She, should return to Haiti; taking up space, time, probably using taxpayer Welfare and Government Programs; a bottom feeder.

Hope most Americans who followed this story were not one of the There is a Sucker Born Every Minute". Sucked into this pathological, greedy liar.

Wonder if she like Mc's hamburgers and fries anymore. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

So this annonymous winner is the chic from Mcdonalds who has just found a way to rip off her co-workers? I dont get it, and dont really care, but I am a curious person.

the macdonalds mama/ 7/ doesn't need the mega she has the full backing and confidence of the government !!!!!

But with her living conditions as we know it - working at McDonalds with 7 children, could she really afford to hire a lawyer if she had not won? And wouldn't the lawyer look into how he would be paid before he took on the job?

Unless she could really pull the wool over the lawyer's eyes (which I doubt, when it comes to his money) I am inclined to think she DID win.

Thank you Steve V. I couldn't have said it better myself.

"Single mother of 7" LOLOLOLOL I guess we have been paying her bills long enough, the government wanted to pay her off in one lump sum, but being the ignorant person she is, she couldn't even get that right. The only thing she got right was the fact that she knew enough to have a bunch of kids so she would get a bigger welfare check each month!!!

Maury: "Dayquan, in the case of the 7 illigetimate children that the tax payers are taking care of...YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!!!"

If I was one of the other McD's employee's I would have talked to a lawyer about putting a freeze on the payout until it can be verified that the claimant was not her or associated with her. Can still remain anonymous. Just prove to a judge real fast who they were if not her. And if it is her, start the lawsuits flying.

Another news source says that the winners are two teachers and an administrator. The ticket has been verified, and they wish to remain anonymous.

If she did in fact lose her ticket, and someone else found and claimed it, serves her right for trying to cheat her fellow employees at her work pool. Karma is a bee...

Even if Mirlande is the hidden winner she'll have all that money blown away to the wind before a year elapses anyway

scabby-2231636

No, Paul, that is a horrible explanation. Of anything.

Of course it is, when you are the recipient of the free stuff. Maybe you need to be on the paying side for a while and see how horrible the explanations is.

I know you were disappointed after reading the post because you were expecting to find a link to where to find the free stuff.

M. Pennington, M. Pennington, M. Pennington---yours and Paul-2539759 Paul-2539759, Paul-2539759's all inclusive rants, rants, rants would include persons such as my wife and me who are disabled and need the assistance---so, SHOVE IT, SHOVE IT, SHOVE IT!

There were 3 winners, 2 teachers and adminstrator worker at the school.

I may not have won, but when hard workign people do, that makes me feel better. One even had 2 full time jobs. They state they are not quitting their jobs (one may since he is 40) yet, but they might be waiting to the endof the school year. If that is the case, good for them for waiting!

Glad it was not her and she has been exposed to be the lying POS she is.

Here is the story since I could not find it on MSDNC anywhere.

http://news.yahoo.com/3-md-school-workers-split-mega-millions-win-125557944.html

I'm with Kimberly Guilfoyle--I think that she is part of the winning group, but she's letting someone else claim the ticket.

She is a POS, a liar, and a cheat--don't be surprised if karma catches up to her.

I'm sure this lying B**CH is a loony toon.

The winners were three school employees (pooled their tickets the correct way) of the state of Maryland..two school teachers (one special education teacher the other elementary teacher both females the third was a male school administration employee).

With a win like that, she could have shared, and still have more than she could spend. If she had done the right thing, she would be a heroine...instead, her name is now mud.

BTW...I agree with the people who don't want their names released. They won't get any peace, (think about how annoying telemarkers can be...) aside from that, the security issue...(alot of nutjobs out there.) ALL states should keep the names private.

about that

M. Pennington, M. Pennington, M. Pennington---yours and Paul-2539759Paul-2539759, Paul-2539759's all inclusive rants, rants, rants would include persons such as my wife and me who are disabled and need the assistance---so, SHOVE IT, SHOVE IT, SHOVE IT!

I know nothing about you or wife, nor your disabilities. I do know that there are many so called disabled people out there that are perfectly able to make it on their own, without the taxpayers paying their way because they are poor victims of society. It is not my fault that you can't push your fat a$$ away from the dinner table or your wife is bi-polar. If you were born with a birth defect it wasn't I, that did the drugs or alcohol while pregnant nor was it I that had intercourse with your mother, that produced you. If you are a disabled Veteran, then by damn you are owed!

I wasn't calling disability a freebie but if you are one of the abusers then feel free to know that it was you I was speaking about.

About that, most disabilities are what people have done to themselves (drug & alcohol abuse and other over indulgence), away from the table, push push push that's all I have to say, About That.

I agree with Paul-2539759. And that's all I have to say. About That.

Wow, has this ever been one topically schizophenic thread! Fun reading!

about that...........

I am not sure who you think I was trying to attack, or rain on their disability parade, but maybe you have me confused with someone else, because if anything, I was speaking and sticking up for those individuals such as yourself against fools like, (Howdy Ho) there who was anticipating that if he ever did win the lottery, he would keep it a secrete until the very end for fear of being asked for some of it by even his family of all people and God forbid, put him on the spot before he had the chance to decide who deserved it or not. I mean, what kind of a selfish inconsiderate creep would be reluctant to share his fortune with his immediate family if he won that kind of money less it be on his terms and when? I will tell you what kind of a squeak when they walk control freak they are. The kind that would ask what they needed the money for and then in the attempt to maintain control of them and the situation and where the money would actually be going. Then would probably ask for a receipt or pay their bill for them. My guess he is also the type that if he did help somebody, he would throw it up to them and hold it over their head the rest of their life's. If he does give as much as he claims to charity, I bet he tracks every dime of it and probably demands a break down of where it goes. Those charitable organizations he says he gives a lot of money to, no doubt would rather he keep his donations, than to have to put up with his control issues and make no mistake about it, this want to be little general has a bunch of them. So, next time you may want to find out the whole story about that before you leap off the balcony with both teeth.

I would not be surprised if the bird brain from the McDonald's comes forward to try and claim this winner stole the ticket from her. I hope for the winner's sake that she has not been anywhere near the McDonalds the woman who claimed to have won worked at. Somehow I do not think that this saga is over. People do very strange things when large sums of money are involved.

Im thinking the McDee woman really has the ticket but doesnt want to split it with the co-workers , or get sued by them. She has probably made some shady deal with another person to claim it and she will share the money with one other person verses several co-workers. And I bet some shady lawyer is in the mix too............

Hmmm... according to the email I got the winner was from Nigeria. They couldn't get the money wired oversees so wanted to use my checking account to temporarily deposit the funds. Sounded pretty legitiment. I knew I should have replied sooner.

I think the media should leave people alone when they request it. This case is the exception. I'd like to see Mirlande Wilson followed around for the next few months. As she continues her pathetic life, I'd like to see microphones in her face as she's asked why she needs to continue to work at a minimum wage job. She asked for it, and I'd like to see her get it. If she thinks the "that was my ticket" bullsh!t is going to get her anything, she's even more stupid than she has already shown herself to be.

Cousin Anonymous!! At last I've found you!! I've been searching for you for years, and there you were, in Maryland of all places.

I'm so happy to know that you're all right. Call me as soon as possible so that we can begin catching up on old times.

All my love, Cousin BMette.

If she made such a deal. I hope the one who turned in nthe winning ticket has a memory lapse on where they got the ticket. I wonder if the lawyer worked this pro bono?

The lost ticket woman is on the street looking for someone to help her create #8, the only jackpot she will get close to is the increase in government handout.

Agreed. If it was Ms Whacko McD's Employee, no need to remain anonymous.

Nomenclature - Hilarious!!!!!! Thanks for the laugh.

Hey, I won the ticket!!!!

*tumbleweed*

My theory is this: that she indeed did buy a ticket from the same store the sold the real winner. That she assumed she won, and was too fearful or jealous to check her ticket because she couldn't handle the let down. So she just told everyone she won.

Its like the time I thought I had AIDS. I just told everyone I had it, because I was too afraid to look at the test results. By the time I did check, 3 of my former lovers had committed suicide for some reason. Oh well, I'm sure they would have been happy for me had they lived to hear the good news.

JS... it won't matter because legal winners are those who sign the back of the ticket. If she lost the ticket and didn't sign the back, she has no claim to it. The winner did the smart thing and remained anonymous, so this McDonalds employee or former employee won't be able to find the winner.

@ Sir Andrew, you got the weed part right

If the McDonald's employee had truthfully won, don't you think she would have been in front of the cameras in a New York minute?

Jean, not necessarily. She would have learned from her previous appearance that it is not a good idea to go public with such things.

Im thinking the McDee woman really has the ticket but doesnt want to split it with the co-workers , or get sued by them. She has probably made some shady deal with another person to claim it and she will share the money with one other person verses several co-workers.

If that was the plan, why make those convoluted claims in the first place? If she is that devious, why not stay silent the whole time so that no one, including her co-workers, is put on alert?

Who's to say she ever even went and bought the tickets. She could have just been running a scam on them to get free money then got caught up in her own lies because she was too stupid to pull it off.

I would split it with my fellow employee's. 10 million at just 1% interest is 100k a year and you can get better rates than that with big money. Plenty to live on without being a greedy @!$%#.

Unbelievable the number of numskulls on here who don't know that we quit giving out increases in government aid when another child is born back in the Clinton administration. Just shows how little people pay attention and how little real information is available in the lunch room at work.

Where did it say that the children are illegitimate? I Oh because she is a Haitian imigrant she MUST have at least three baby daddy's right? I remember reading she was a single parent but for all we know the father may still be in Haiti or maybe they are divorced or possibly he was killed during the earthquake. Yaaaawn.

Hey! Amused in the Midwest!! Now you freaking tell me ! I've already got ten little gals with "the pump primed", if you know what I mean. Stupid work latrine lawyers have let me down again. Unless......do y'all still go after deadbeat dads?!

Amused: Maybe where you are. Food stamps are based on household size as is section 8 payments and afdc payments.

Hey! Not a bad gig at all indeed. Though it probably won't work, but then again, there are a lot of stupid criminals out there that think they can get away with almost anything. That is until they are caught in their own lair.

So, before anyone has the chance to come forward and claim their winnings and ownership of the ticket, she comes forward to set up the prelude to her claim stating that she is the winner only she has misplaced the ticket. That way when the real owner of the ticket does comes forth to claim their winnings, she steps in with her attorney and attempts to verify the fact that no it is mine, because she has already said so publicly and the one who is trying to claim her ticket, obviously must have found it. The only problem with that is the video camera at the convenient store doesn't lie. Who knows, the one that did win may feel sorry for her and kick her down a million so she can afford to get help with her mental illnesses she developed while work at McDonald's? Stranger things have happened don't you know!

According to earlier published reports, the time stamp on the store's video camera system is wrong. They can verify WHO was there, but not WHEN, unless there are other clues in the context of the video.

With a Bic Mac in the recovery room.

And a hot apple pie, don't forget the ubiquitous hot apple pie.....!!!

This is when one realizes there must be a God....Mir"crash"lande...did I spell it right?....is a lying piece of offal and she got her moment...but now everyone who didn't know she was a scam artist piece of offal now know....so there must really be a "God"....she is the face of the future....alright everyone....jump on me and defend what's her name.....pppphhhhhee...look at the bright side....a few more kids by 10 different men will get her pretty close to what she would have won....at least it will be in the form of a government check....as long as you weren't born here....if you were someone born in this country and needed help...you wouldn't get a penny.....

I think everyone on this vine would contribute to a Dr. that would tie her tubes.

That sounds like a refinement and enlargement on the skills of the back alley money changers in Saigon.

Smells like a scam cuz you didn't win. Nothing more-nothing less.

I didn't even buy a ticket. Like I said, with big money like this, it is easy for people to tempt to do such thing.

I also state that I read about this in Vietnam, so it happened before. No name, it's the perfect scam.

Well, I'm sure the IRS knows who it is. After all, they need their cut as well.

If I won I sure as shootin' wouldn't want my name blasted all over the media so that the crazy nut jobs could hunt me down.

While I don't think its out of the question for scams to occur, especially when such large sums of money are at stake. However, the scam comment caused me to realize there is a fundamental law of internet rooted here. That law is:

ILaw: Whenever any news story about any topic is posted, there will always be posts that claim or imply the main premise of the story is manufactured, altered or involves a conspiracy or coverup that is obvious to a reasonably intelligent person, such as themselves.

stoopid ... you should get a copyright on your "ILaw." It is brilliant, and proven here day-after-day.

Think she may have already so as not to share with the other employees. 50-50 is better than 8% (1 of 12 for you liberals).

hope...the real winner...send's the lady and her kids...a big shoe to live in...for that happy ending...

@Talk to the Hand

I can see why you "talk to your hand". Making insulting comments about liberals for no reason is typical of cretins like you and totally off topic. Maybe no woman will touch you because you are a wanker.

Not only that, but you have the worms crawling out of the woodwork to help you spend it. Charities up the wahzoo nagging you constantly, relatives...I don't think I'd want the publicity.

Finders keepers, idiots weepers.

If I were the winner, I wouldn't have come out until I had my attorney and financial advisors and good game plan. I also would want to be anonymous. No sense in showing the flys where to lay their eggs.

There was doubt that Wilson was the winner in the first place. It was a man on the store's video buying the winning ticket. Wilson was pulling the chain of her co-workers or wanted her moments of fame. If Wilson did win the ticket and she signed the back, there is not much the group can do.

George Zimmerman stole her ticket

Hey McDonald's employes, you got screwed. the ticket was bought with your money. She will lay low for awhile and then she will get her share from the person she is dealing with. Watch and see. It may take awhile before this happens. I believe the ticket was bought with the McD's employee's money. If I was one of the McD's employee's, I would watch her for a long time. It may be worth it.

Hey McDonald's employees, you got screwed when you had to work with that worthless liar. I hope her next job is shovelling sh!t on a pig farm.

I wish you better luck next time janman......me too

She certainly can't be an human being equal to you could she? It must be so heavenly being so much above her! Sad commentary here.....

...and being a single mother of seven is a badge of honor in your opinion? I wonder how many daddies there are, and I wonder how she "supplements" her McDonald's salary. Probably sucking at the public teat and government cheese as well. So, admire her while you and I help pay for her lifestyle!

My mom was a single mother of 8, with little work experience when my dad died. And we were all of the same mom and same dad. So before you throw your stones, you might want to check yourself. And no my mom didn't take government cheese. She worked 3 jobs and we never saw her except for when she was sitting in a chair sleeping. The fact that the woman was working should stiffle your ignorance but no you had to keep going to say she was probably doing both. And IMO, its not the people on "government cheese" we should be worried about, its the people on the government caviar, the elite, but noooooo everyone wants to fight amongst themselves over "cheese". Divided we fall.

Hmmmmmreally, Thank you so much for your comment. My (Black) Grandmother raised 9 kids on her own. My grandfather passed away in a freak factory accident. Yes she had government assistance, but not for very long. She also worked 3 jobs, when the kids were old enough they also helped with work. Because of this, my Father is the hardest working man I have ever met. He is an engineer for navy fighter jets. Because he grew up on this so called "government cheese" he helps to ensure your safety everyday.

I can't stand it when people sit on the sidelines and judge.

@LockandKey

There are exceptions to the rule...1st let me thank your father for his service to our country, and I mean that sincerely...however I do not think your Grandmother would have tried to pull a scam like this, I do not know your Grandmother but from what I gather from your information, she was a good woman raising a big 50's/60's family, in married home, until the accident. This bottom feeder had 7 kids out of wedlock knowing that she could get a nice fat check each month from US...the taxpayers...then when she decided that wasn't enough, she tried this scam and it blew up in her face!!! I have no sympathy for people like her. My sympathy and charity lies with families like yours. I live in Detroit, and I see the mooches and government leeches all day everyday, and its really hard to have any kind of empathy towards people like her.

"hmmmreally

My mom was a single mother of 8, with little work experience when my dad died. And we were all of the same mom and same dad."

Please re-read the description of the "winner": A SINGLE mother of 7, NOT A WIDOW with 7 kids.

Our hearts should go out to those who have the piano fall on their heads. But our hearts should not go out to those who stand under the piano with a knife and cut the rope!!!

Years ago you would find Moms with a gaggle of kids. That was then. Times have changed. Now we expect women to be responsible and educated about birth control and not be a leech on society expecting other people's dollars to raise a large welfare brood.

i love it when people from other countries can come here and act like we americans owe them something. we give them freedom same as we have and they still get goverment aid here that many americans are denied.

as for this woman with the missing winning lottery ticket i hope whomever found it deserved it, she has her fair share!

OH How funny would this be.................. what if the "SOMEONE SHE TRUSTS" cuts Mirlande Wilson out!!!! Now that would be some real poetic justice.

I too believe that Mirlande should be followed around for a good long time. The McDonalds employees who trusted Mirlande will FOREVER HAVE A LEGAL CLAIM TO MAKE on all those millions.

no way this way you can find out if your husband or wife won & tried it happen in CA. lady won filed for divorce from husband, but a letter came from the ca. lotto office & she got caught, & it went to couart & the judge gave him all the money. it was not a big one just around 1 mil. Plus what if all of a sudden family of the lottos were the winners. just to keep everyone honest.

I agree every state should have the anonymous law. It's way too dangerous for the winners. Watch that supposed winner do a poetic justice on Mirlande Wilson. Just snatch and go. Ms. Wilson God is watching you!!

I know someone who works at a supermarket customer svce desk in Massachusetts. She see's the living off the state low lifes using their state subsidized money to buy lottery tickets. And they get away with it

Foodstamps? Are you REALLY that ignorant or do you just "play ignorant" on the internet.

You can NOT use food stamps to purchase lottery tickets. It is a cash only sale!

subject: food stamps to buy lotto tickets

they wait inside the grocery store and approach shoppers and sell the food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar or whatever they can get. then they use the money to buy whatever they want. been going on for decades now

Most food stamps come on a debit card type of thing. Cannot sell food stamps like what you are talking about. I'm sure it can be done, just not how you described.

No but they do have cash available on their Mas. Govt. EBT Cards

Thomaston, GA has stores that turn a blind eye to what is purchased with your EBT/food stamp card. Cigarettes, beer, lotto.

Huh?

she say... da lady ant got no morels...she be down wit it...

She dun could rap, her mama dont rase no dumbies.....

Paw........... So what's your angle on all of this. LoL How much is your cut!!!!!!!

Mirlande + 7 kids + YOU + a cousin + a friend + another cousin + the 3rd kids daddy + your cousin + the pastor + the "other daddy" + blah blah blah blah

All of that money................................ will simply pass from all y'alls hands into the bank accounts of very smart people. It is your destiny to be poor.

First 13dev...you are assuming that I am Haitian...Next, you are assuming that I am poor and Third, you are assuming that I am unmarried and have children by 3 different men and Fourth, you are assuming that I am now lying. Well let me tell you this...I am caucasian, I am married for 27 years and have four children by the same man. I also have two Bachelor Degrees in Marketing and Business Management and own a business and my husband is a Civil Engineer and has his own business. I am NOT related to the "real" winner nor do I personally know her; yet, as I stated, my daughter's best friend from college COUSIN (who is 26 or 27 years old) won the lottery in MD! I am not going to say anymore, as it is her right to keep her name anonymous if she so chooses to do. I have no angle other than to tell the truth and out LIARS and OPPORTUNISTS such as Mirlande Wilson!

Don't sweat it Paw...it's 13dev's destiny to be an idiot.

Thanks kennyw...I know...geez...I have no reason to lie. I just know that my daughter's friend's cousin is MD lottery winner, is a not an McDonald employee and Mirlande Wilson is not one that will share the lottery. She never had the ticket to begin with!

Bob, OH HOW FUNNY............... I sat here and laughed my butt off for 60 seconds.

What a hoot and so perfectly put.

get a life you duche

Those are called NON-WIINING NUMBERS :) Just for your information :))

That moronic whacko that works at McDonalds just wanted to be on TV. She should be deported along with her kids back to Haiti. She's too ignorant to be an American. Deport her goofy lawyer too.

barbie, did you actually believe she won anything ? She's a whacko bag of si*t

Why can't Barbara Myers write a coherent sentence?