The Massachusetts state revenue department isn’t exactly sure what will happen in the case of a lottery winner that scratched a lottery ticket worth one million dollars while on probation. Timothy Elliott bought the winning state lotto ticket while he was on a grocery store located in Hyannis.
According to terms of Elliotts probation he is not allowed to gamble. Nor is he allowed to purchase lottery tickets, or visit any establishment in which gambling occurs, this does include grocery stores and restaurants that offer keno.
Whenever a large sum of money is won in the Massachusetts state lottery winners are cross checked probation for bank robbery. Elliott paid $10 for the lottery ticket, an $800 Million Spectacular Game
scratch off, in which he bought at against state databases in case of child support debt or back taxes owed. In those more routine cases lottery winnings are sent directly to the state revenue dept.
Elliot has already collected the first of 20 annual lottery payment checks, and the state isn’t sure just what will happen with those winnings, “This is kind of new territory,” Lottery Spokesman Dan Rosenfeld remarked.
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