Florida Lottery scratch-off $1 million jackpot won by Texas man. How many visitors win big here?
In January, a Texas man picked up a scratch-off ticket in Florida and won a $1 million prize.
David Le, of Katy, Texas, claimed his jackpot from the $1,000,000 a Year For Life game and took the lump sum of $640,000.00, according to a release from the Florida Lottery on May 2.
Le bought his winning ticket from Walmart Liquor Box at 1619 Del Prado Boulevard S. in Cape Coral. The retailer received a $2,000 bonus commission for selling it to him.
Yes. According to the Florida Lottery, games can be played and won by anyone 18 years of age or older, regardless of age, citizenship, race or financial status. You don't have to be a Florida resident or even a U.S. resident, although non-U.S. residents get whacked with a much bigger tax bite (30% instead of 24%).
Le isn't even the first out-of-state visitor to win a million in this scratch-off game. Kazbek Kurbaniov of West Hollywood, California, won it in November. Joseph Moore of Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania, won his million a week or so after Le.
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To claim a prize from out of state, winners must fill out the back of the winning lottery ticket and mail it to the claims office along with a Winner Claim Form and identification documentation
If you win $1 million or more in any prize, or any prize with an annual payment option, you must come to Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.
If you win from $600 to $1 million for games without an annual payment option you can mail it in or go to any district office to claim your prize, also in Florida. Prizes less than $600 can be claimed by mail or at any Florida lottery retailer.
If you win free tickets and claim by mail, you'll receive the monetary value of what you won. Florida lottery, Powerball, Mega Millions or scratch-off tickets may not be mailed across state lines, per federal law.
All Florida Powerball, Mega Millions, CASH4LIFE and Fast Play prizes must be claimed in Florida.
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The Texas Lottery began in 1992, four years after Florida's began..
Alabama, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah all ban state and multistate lotteries in their state constitutions and do not have state lotteries. Alaska doesn't allow Powerball or Mega Millions but does have its own state lottery. However, Nevada's legislature passed a bill this year to establish a state lottery system that could go before voters in 2026.
Puerto Rico, which established the oldest modern state lottery in the United States in 1934 (first authorized by the King of Spain in 1814), participates in the Powerball, but not Mega Millions.
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In August 2024, Leon Maxwell Strachan of Nassau in The Bahamas won $20,500,000 with a winning Mega Million ticket from a Murphy USA in Kissimmee and claimed $11,826,169.83.
Alice Patricia Dawson of Frisco City, Alabama, who claimed $86,932,220 in an April 2015 Powerball she bought an hour away from the State Line Gift Shop in McDavid, Florida.
In April 2021, Hans Moorjani Moorjani, 46, of Colon, Panama, bought a Florida Lotto ticket at a Shell station in Davie and won a $28 million prize, taking the lump sum of $20,856,061.
Cassandra Jane Holmes, 57, of Midland City, Alabama, won $8 million with a Florida Lotto ticket from another Campbellton liquor store in March 2018, taking home $5,335,428.
In July 2017, Aura Alicia Dominquez Canto, 60, of Panama City, Panam,a bought a ticket in Campbellton that won $30 million, which worked out to a lump sum of $20,948,543.
Three months earlier, Renae Jean Fogarty of Frisco, Texas, won $8 million with a ticket she bought on vacation in Fort Pierce and claimed $5,503,312.
This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Florida Lottery $1 million scratch-off win at Cape Coral Walmart
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