Virginia Beach man claims $1 million Virginia Lottery prize

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By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 27, 2010

VIRGINIA BEACH

A Virginia Beach man accepted his $1 million scratch-off prize from Virginia Lottery officials Tuesday morning at the Jr. Market on Sandbridge Road.

Joseph Daniels, bought five Virginia’s $5 Million Club tickets from the store Thursday.

The last one he scratched turned out to be the winning ticket.

The $1 million prize he won is an annuity paid out over 25 years, a lottery news release said.

Daniels chose to take the cash option of $642,000 before taxes.

The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket, according to the release.

Daniels, a car dealership finance manager, said he plans to pay off his mortgage with his prize, according to the release.

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Cool. My dad used to do

Submitted by Ethan on Tue, 07/27/2010 at 9:19 pm.

Cool. My dad used to do taxes as a part time thing while retired and had a lottery winner come in. He advised the guy go get professional assistance with managing the money. The interesting this is, it sounds like this guy works in finance.

wow

Submitted by StraightForward on Tue, 07/27/2010 at 5:44 pm.

If only we all could afford to buy handfuls of $20 lottery tickets... Tomorrow I put in my last modification request to try to keep my home for another 90 days. ::sigh::

loan modificatioin

Submitted by comonsens on Wed, 07/28/2010 at 9:00 am.

Good luck to you and your family - you keep your head up and do what you need to do knowing you are not alone in this situation. I hope you are successful in your mortgage work out. Have you called your state and federal representatives? Sometimes their offices can do what no one else can do.