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Fifteen Maryland McDonald's employees remain in financial limbo Tuesday as a co-worker who claimed to hold a $105 million Mega Millions lottery ticket stays in hiding amid suspicions she is either being greedy or perpetrating a cruel hoax.
Three winning tickets were bought for Friday's record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions drawing. While no one has come forward to claim the prize, Mirlande Wilson's boasts to a newspaper that she selected the ticket has caused ill-will at a McDonald's in Westport, a section in Baltimore, Md., where she works. Wilson bought tickets for a pool of co-workers, but told the New York Post that the winning ticket she claimed to have purchased was bought separately.
Lottery officials in Maryland, however, downplayed Wilson's claim to the golden ticket without proof.
"Until or unless someone walks through the door with that ticket, and it's verified as the winner, we don't have any lead on anybody," Maryland Lottery spokeswoman Carole Everett told FoxNews.com early Tuesday. "There is a winner somewhere, but we don't know who they are yet."
Attempts to reach Wilson, a Haitian immigrant living in Baltimore, have been unsuccessful. In a statement to The Associated Press, the franchise's owner, Birul Desai, said the Post's report was purely speculation and cautioned anyone from jumping to conclusions until the winning ticket is verified.
Wilson's co-workers are sizzling with anger over the confusion.
"She can't do this to us!” shift manager Suleiman Osman Husein told the New York Post. "We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!"
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/0...lds-maryland-mystery-continues/#ixzz1r04tjKJI
Three winning tickets were bought for Friday's record-breaking $656 million Mega Millions drawing. While no one has come forward to claim the prize, Mirlande Wilson's boasts to a newspaper that she selected the ticket has caused ill-will at a McDonald's in Westport, a section in Baltimore, Md., where she works. Wilson bought tickets for a pool of co-workers, but told the New York Post that the winning ticket she claimed to have purchased was bought separately.
Lottery officials in Maryland, however, downplayed Wilson's claim to the golden ticket without proof.
"Until or unless someone walks through the door with that ticket, and it's verified as the winner, we don't have any lead on anybody," Maryland Lottery spokeswoman Carole Everett told FoxNews.com early Tuesday. "There is a winner somewhere, but we don't know who they are yet."
Attempts to reach Wilson, a Haitian immigrant living in Baltimore, have been unsuccessful. In a statement to The Associated Press, the franchise's owner, Birul Desai, said the Post's report was purely speculation and cautioned anyone from jumping to conclusions until the winning ticket is verified.
Wilson's co-workers are sizzling with anger over the confusion.
"She can't do this to us!” shift manager Suleiman Osman Husein told the New York Post. "We each paid $5. She took everybody’s money!"
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/0...lds-maryland-mystery-continues/#ixzz1r04tjKJI
