Politics | 01/06/2009 10:55 am

Co-Workers Sue Over $207M Lottery Win (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Bad day to take a sick day.

Four city workers — who had been polling their money in the office pot for nearly five years under the verbal agreement that they’d all share the winnings — were out of the office and unavailable to contribute to the office pool for a drawing last month that resulted in a $207 million payoff.

The four planitiffs are suing 15 co-workers who are keeping the $207 million Mega Millions lottery winnings all to themselves. The plantiffs claim they joined with the other participants in a pool for the December 9 Mega Millions. They won some cash in that drawing, and some of the winnings were allegedly used to purchase tickets for the December 12 drawing, which resulted in the jackpot. Watch below as two lawyers debate the case on CNN and then tell us: Are the employees not getting their "fair share"?

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Isn’t life about sharing?

By shirley adams on 01/07/2009 4:59 am

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if it comes to money, have it written down. I do not care what person or persons you are dealing with, write it down and sign it, both parties. Don’t sign a pencil agreement either, we did this once with a gallery dealer, who suddenly could not find his pen. Later an altered deal came to the surface.

By Jeannot Kensinger on 01/07/2009 12:58 pm

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Lord. Wouldn’t you love to be the supervisor of THIS bunch! Think anybody’ll keep their job?

By Ms. Dee on 01/07/2009 9:30 pm

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personaly give share or give to tax man once several years ago on mega money to test one reviewer of numbers a winning ticket was put in with several hundred other tickets /// purchased with numbers drawn and were for next draw ,when announced several regulars had missed anty pool // it turned nasty in a hurry also 200.00 was from previous pool procedes ,, money supposedly won was 300.000.00,, shows numbers arent neccessary for greed to surface

By jack jackson on 01/09/2009 11:02 am

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By jack jackson on 01/09/2009 11:03 am

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This is so silly! If these four people were good friends with the folks who won, why didn’t they ask there friends to chip in a dollar or two to be repay when they return to work? If they were so gun ho about playing the lottery every week or whatever why not ask one of the co workers to chip in the dollars?

By Lori F. on 01/27/2009 7:08 am