Who owns a $12.8M unclaimed winning lottery ticket? Former Circle K manager speaks out



A former Circle K manager at the center of a legal battle over a $12.8 million Arizona Lottery jackpot says he followed company policy when he purchased the ticket.

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  1. He bought the ticket after knowing it was a winner!!! Not his ticket!!!! Circle K is the owner. Overprinted lottery tickets belong to the store by lottery rules. He needs to be charged with theft!!!

  2. Absolutely not his. He didn’t purchase it before the drawing. At the time of drawing, that ticket belonged to the store. A two dollar lottery ticket is $2 because you don’t know if it will win. When this manager purchased the ticket it had a $12.8M value. If he was a manager, he wasn’t working in the interest of the company that was paying him to look after their interest. Not his!

  3. The store ended up short $25 that night. The moment the night shift paperwork was closed with a shortage,is the moment Circle k owned that loss which is the unvoided tickets. You can’t just show up the next day and try reconcile the numbers by deceiving the system put in a place.

  4. Interesting.
    The ticket is his. I hope he gets the money. It’s worth the wait. It appears he did everything he should have done. The other person can’t claim it because he didn’t pay for it.
    If he doesn’t get the money then who. It seems like a shut case to me. Pay the employee the money.

  5. So let me get this straight. He bought the ticket after he saw that it was a winning ticket? Gtfo!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 thinks he’s slick!!!! I don’t feel sorry for him 😂😂😂😂

  6. If he followed the company's by-laws, then the Arizona State Labor Board needs to get involved, cause at the very least he was wrongfully terminated. I'll bet that DM didn't lose her job though

  7. Don't these companies and corporations realize that we live a in a world nowadays where everything winds up on and in the media and is always going to put them in a negative light to which they are just gonna fold and do the right thing anwyay becase of fall out and back lash? So why let it get that far?

  8. Should have punched out bought the tickets then stayed out … Sick or whatever. Punching back in so fast was a little odd… But hey he paid for it ! It's his …

  9. It seems to me, he purchased the ticket, knowing what the numbers were? That gave him an extra hedge he would not have purchased them if they were not already printed, and he could see what the numbers were. So because the lottery ticket wasn’t voided, he was able to purchase it. The point of the lottery is you don’t know the numbers unless you have him pick the numbers or have them randomly printed & pay for them. So he gave himself permission to buy the ticket. He already knew was the winner which any other customer would not have been able to do. So if I were the judge, I would say he did not legally acquire the ticket despite or in favor of what circle K says. And who clocks out minutes into their shift so just to do something shifty?

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