Mega Millions ‘winner’ a loser of winning ticket
Imagine the joy of winning millions in the lottery.
Mirlande Wilson, center, will be able to afford even fancier hats if she finds the 'misplaced' winning Mega Millions ticket. (AP Photo)
Now imagine losing that winning ticket.
Now imagine lying about everything to any reporter who will listen.
That would seem to be the case of alleged Mega Millions winner Mirlande Wilson, 37, of Maryland, who’s claimed to have won a third of the world record $656 million lottery jackpot.
As you’ve doubtless read before, Wilson refused to share her presumptive millions with her McDonald’s co-workers, whom she had purchased tickets with in a pool.
Wilson, a Haitian immigrant and mother of seven, quit her fast-food gig by calling in to tell her former friends she was a millionaire and would not be sharing because she purchased the winning ticket separately from the office pool.
Today, NBC News reports Wilson has “misplaced” the ticket.
When asked if she was a teller of tall tales, Wilson told NBC “I did not make up no story to get no attention.”
Even her own attorney has never seen the alleged winning ticket, which makes me wonder about his mental state as much as his client’s.
So far, winners in Kansas and Illinois have yet to step forward. Baltimore must be full of tricksters — another man there claimed to have been the Maryland winner, but it was a cruel joke that made his mother cry instead of laugh.
Maryland lottery officials are urging people who bought tickets to check their numbers again to make sure they don’t have the winner. The fear is that the real winner may have thrown out a ticket worth millions because they thought someone else had already won the big prize.
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Jay Black
April 6th, 2012
12:47 pm
I wonder if you all would be yelling “Go back to Germany” if she was a German immigrant here with 7 kids. That being said, she’s lying like hell, and McDonalds should sue her for making THEM look incompetent in their hiring practices by hiring a store full of dummies that didn’t get copies of the pool tickets.
MR
April 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
Lawyer: Say you lost it. I will get someone to claim it. We split it and all are happy.
Wilson: How do I know that I can trust you?
Lawyer: hahahahahaha
Carole Smith
April 6th, 2012
12:50 pm
IF she was a Mega Millions winner, she would still HAVE the ticket!!! Also, as a Haitian immigrant, is she LEGAL???? Also, where is the father (fathers) of her SEVEN children? And, she works at McDonalds!!! Come on, WHO is supporting these immigrants?????? Oh, wait………..I think I know. WE DO!!!!!!!
Angie A
April 6th, 2012
12:54 pm
everyone seems to think this lady is lying and wants 15 mins of fame, and never had the ticket…I believe she has the ticket, knows that if she comes forward with it, she will get sued by her former co-workers and lose (bc it has happened with other winners), so she is saying she misplaced it, but probably has a deal with a friend or family member who will claim they have it and win all that $, and obviously going to act like they don’t know this lady, lol, so she only has to give a percentage to this one person vs all her ex co-workers. She’s lying about losing it, and she’s smarter than you all think..whether she will get away with this scheme of hers, we can only wait and see, but she has a year to turn it in, so my guess, she’ll her her accomplice turn it in after all this hoopla dies down so she won’t be so terrified of a lawsuit…
JamAndJelly
April 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
How could a person lose something they never had to begin with?
um
April 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
How do you raise 7 kids on a McDonalds salary? Oh yea, I help pay for it……
kmb
April 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
Maryland knows if she is or is not the winner. They have a surveillance camera pointed at the lottery machine and claim to have the photo of the winner. Why they don’t just answer the question of whether of not she could possibly be the holder of the ticket is a mystery.
Honest Al
April 6th, 2012
12:56 pm
I never blame the people who crave attention and 15 mins of fame, I blame the stupid media outlets who give these clowns the time of day. On a day to day basis only about 5% of news is actual news. The rest is bs to sell papers, etc.
Jay Black
April 6th, 2012
12:57 pm
So which tickets did she misplace? Both sets?
Patti
April 6th, 2012
12:59 pm
Why would you hide your ticket at work anyway??? I would keep it really close to me at all times, or even put it in a safe deposit box….Story sounds fishy right from the start!!