Partly Cloudy 35°
News
$100M Fraud: NY 'Lottery Lawyer' Gets 13 Years For Scheme Targeting Jackpot Winners $100M Fraud: NY 'Lottery Lawyer' Gets 13 Years For Scheme Targeting Jackpot Winners
$100M Fraud: NY 'Lottery Lawyer' Gets 13 Years For Scheme Targeting Jackpot Winners A New York lawyer will spend more than a decade behind bars for helping to defraud lottery jackpot winners out of more than $100 million. Long Island resident Jason Kurland, age 49, of Dix Hills, was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison in US District Court in Brooklyn on Thursday, June 15. It followed his July 2022 conviction for wire fraud, honest services wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. According to prosecutors, Kurland was a partner at a Long Island law firm between 2018 and 2020, and built a reputation for representing lottery…

SHARE

by Michael Mashburn
Lifestyle
$1,000,000 Winner: Westchester Man Claims Powerball Prize $1,000,000 Winner: Westchester Man Claims Powerball Prize
$1,000,000 Winner: Westchester Man Claims Powerball Prize A lucky Westchester County resident has claimed a $1,000,000 second-place Powerball Prize. The New York Lottery announced on Friday, May 5 that Everald Anderson matched the first five Powerball numbers drawn on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. The winning numbers were 06-14-16-34-66 with the Powerball number of  25. Anderson received a single lump sum payment of $651,004 after the required withholdings, the NY Lottery said. The winning ticket was purchased at Lucky Trading 486 at 486 Main St. in New Rochelle. (Shown in the image above.) New York’s Powerball game generated $358,376,004 i…

SHARE

by Joe Lombardi
Lifestyle
Pair Of Powerball Tickets Worth $50,000 Sold In Westchester Pair Of Powerball Tickets Worth $50,000 Sold In Westchester
Pair Of Powerball Tickets Worth $50,000 Sold In Westchester Although lightning is said to never strike the same place twice, evidently the same rule does not apply to lottery winnings, as two lucky Westchester residents bought $50,000 tickets on the same day.  The two third-prize-winning Powerball tickets were sold for the drawing on Monday, April 17, and had four matching numbers in addition to the Powerball number, New York Lottery announced.  The two tickets were sold in both Pelham and Pleasantville at the following locations:  Pelham Plaza Gourmet Deli, located in Pelham at 605 Fifth Ave.; V&D Food and Gas, located in Pleas…

SHARE

by Ben Crnic
Business
Power Play Ticket Worth $150,000 Sold In NY Power Play Ticket Worth $150,000 Sold In NY
Power Play Ticket Worth $150,000 Sold In NY A winning Powerball ticket worth $150,000 was sold at a New York convenience store, New York Lottery officials announced. The third-prize winning Power Play ticket for the Saturday, April 8 drawing was purchased on Long Island in West Babylon, at the Shell Food Mart on Straight Path. It has four matching numbers plus the Powerball. The winning numbers for Saturday’s drawing are: 11-22-24-51-60 and the Powerball is 18. The Power Play multiplier is 3, meaning the third-place prize was tripled. Powerball drawings are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 11 p.m. Players can check th…

SHARE

by Michael Mashburn
News
Jackpot! $1,000,000 Powerball Prize Claimed By NY Woman Jackpot! $1,000,000 Powerball Prize Claimed By NY Woman
Jackpot! $1,000,000 Powerball Prize Claimed By NY Woman For one New York woman, the grass just got a lot greener. Long Island resident Barbara Filion, of the hamlet of Albertson in Nassau County, claimed her $1,000,000 Powerball second prize from a drawing on October 22, 2022, the New York Lottery announced. Fillion correctly matched the first five of the winning numbers, which were 19-25-48-55-60 and Powerball 18. According to lottery officials, the lucky winner received a single lump sum payment totaling $651,000 after required withholdings. Fillion purchased her winning ticket in Albertson, at 848 Willis Avenue Services, located at 848 Wi…

SHARE

by Sophie Grieser
Lifestyle
Winning Powerball Ticket Worth $50,000 Sold In Westchester Winning Powerball Ticket Worth $50,000 Sold In Westchester
Winning Powerball Ticket Worth $50,000 Sold In Westchester Four third-prize winning Powerball tickets each worth $50,000 for the Saturday, April 1 drawing were purchased in New York.  They each have four matching numbers and the Powerball. The tickets were sold at: Food Mart in Westchester County on West Post Road in White Plains; 7-Eleven in Nassau County at on Berry Hill Road in Syosset; Hannaford store in Warre County on Quaker Road in Queensbury;  PMP Convenience in Queens, on Liberty Avenue in South Richmond Hill. The winning numbers for the Powerball drawing held on April 1 are: 11-19-21-29-52 and the Powerball is 17. 

SHARE

by Joe Lombardi
Lifestyle
Powerball Ticket Worth $50,000 Sold At Store In Hudson Valley Powerball Ticket Worth $50,000 Sold At Store In Hudson Valley
Powerball Ticket Worth $50,000 Sold At Store In Hudson Valley A winning third-prize Powerball ticket worth $50,000 was sold at a lucky Hudson Valley store. The winning ticket, which correctly picked four matching numbers, and the Powerball, for the Monday, March 20 game was sold at the Orange County Smokes 4 Less store in Newburgh, said New York Lottery officials. The winning numbers were: 1-27-32-47-67 and the Powerball was 14. The winning numbers for the Powerball game are drawn from a field of one to 69. The Powerball number is drawn from a separate field of one to of 26. The Powerball drawing is televised every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at…

SHARE

by Kathy Reakes
Lifestyle
Powerball Ticket Worth $50K Sold At Store In Hudson Valley Powerball Ticket Worth $50K Sold At Store In Hudson Valley
Powerball Ticket Worth $50K Sold At Store In Hudson Valley A popular Hudson Valley store known for winning lottery tickets strikes again as another winning third-place Powerball ticket was purchased there. The ticket, worth $50,000 was for the Saturday, Feb. 25, Powerball drawing was sold in Orange County at the Smoke 4 Less store on Plank Road in Newburgh, said New York Lottery officials.  The winning ticket had four matching numbers and the Powerball, officials said. Another third-prize-winning ticket was sold in Manhattan. The winning numbers for the Powerball drawing were 11-24-58-66-67 and the Powerball was 26.  The winning number…

SHARE

by Kathy Reakes
Lifestyle
Westchester Man Wins $1,000,000 Powerball Prize Westchester Man Wins $1,000,000 Powerball Prize
Westchester Man Wins $1,000,000 Powerball Prize This story has been updated. A Westchester County man is a million dollars richer after claiming his second-place Powerball prize.  The White Plains resident claimed his $1 million second-place prize, which he won for matching the first five numbers drawn in the Powerball drawing held on Nov. 22, 2022, New York Lottery announced on Tuesday, Feb. 14. The winning numbers were 13 19 36 39 59 Powerball 13. After the required withholdings, he received a lump sum of $651,000.  For those wondering where he bought the lucky ticket, it was purchased at a 7-Eleven located in El…

SHARE

by Ben Crnic
Lifestyle
$50K Powerball Tickets Sold At 2 Hudson Valley Stores, Including Westchester Shop $50K Powerball Tickets Sold At 2 Hudson Valley Stores, Including Westchester Shop
$50K Powerball Tickets Sold At 2 Hudson Valley Stores, Including Westchester Shop Two prize-winning Powerball tickets worth $50,000 were sold at stores in the Hudson Valley.  The two tickets, which were two of nine third-prize-winning Powerball tickets sold in New York for the Saturday, Feb. 4 drawing, were sold in stores in both Westchester and Orange Counties, New York Lottery announced.  The store in Westchester County that sold the winning ticket was Daisy's Cards and Gifts located in Yonkers at 8 North Broadway.  The Orange County store where the prize-winning ticket was bought was Smokes 4 Less located in Newburgh at 59 North Plank Rd.  T…

SHARE

by Ben Crnic
Lifestyle
$1 Million Powerball Winners: 3 Tickets Sold In NY $1 Million Powerball Winners: 3 Tickets Sold In NY
$1 Million Powerball Winners: 3 Tickets Sold In NY Five Powerball tickets, including three in New York, matched all five numbers to win $1 million. Two of the NY winners are on Long Island, both in Nassau County: Barefoot Peddler at 37 Glen Cove Rd. in Greenvale.  Farmingdale Petroleum at 400 South Oyster Bay Rd. in Hickville.  The other NY winner came from lower Manhattan, at Liberty News and Gifts at 4 South Street.  The other two of the five were sold in Michigan. A single ticket in Washington State won the jackpot worth $754.6 million ($407.2 million cash) after matching all six numbers drawn in the Monday, Feb. 6 draw…

SHARE

by Joe Lombardi
Lifestyle
Power Play Ticket Worth $100,000 Sold In Hudson Valley Power Play Ticket Worth $100,000 Sold In Hudson Valley
Power Play Ticket Worth $100,000 Sold In Hudson Valley A smoke shop in the Hudson Valley known for its winning lottery tickets has struck again with a lucky player pocketing $100,000 in the latest Powerball game. The Power Play ticket for the Monday, Jan. 30 game matched four numbers and the Powerball, said New York Lottery officials. The winning numbers for Jan. 30 are 1-4-12-36-49 and the Powerball is 5. The Power Play multiplier for the drawing was 2. The Power Play prize-winning ticket was purchased at Smokes 4 Less in Orange County in Newburgh, lottery officials said. The Power Play ticket, the third place prize – not including the jackp…

SHARE

by Kathy Reakes