US immigrant with five childrren wins 338-million-dollar lottery
New York - An immigrant from the Dominican Republic has formally claimed his lottery winnings of 338 million dollars, saying he planned to buy himself a car.
Pedro Quezada, 44, had been buying a lottery ticket every day at the same liquor store for years in the New Jersey town of Passaic, according to broadcast reports.
The lottery win was the fourth largest US Powerball history. The ticket had cost the father of five a few dollars at the liquor store where he always bought.
Quezada, who operates a delicatessen, learned he had won on Monday when he walked into the Eagle Liquors store to check the winning number, according to The New York Daily News.
"Ay, Dios," he said in Spanish when he got the jolt of good luck. Then he called his wife, Ines, on his cell phone, saying: "I'm the millionaire, Ines, put on the TV so you can see me, or come down to the liquor store right now."
His lump sum payout will be about 152 million dollars after state and federal taxes are taken out. The odds of the win were one in 175 million, the News reported.//DPA
