Twenty-two co-workers share $99 million jackpot in Ohio
RELEASE DATE: 8/8/2011
The winners of Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot wasted no time to make their claim. Late this morning, 22 members of a KraftMaid work pool, came to the Ohio Lottery’s Youngstown regional office to make their claim on the $99 million Mega Millions jackpot prize. The winning ticket was sold at the Speedway located at 149 North Chestnut Street in Jefferson. The winners are:
Arnette Badanjek, Southington
Germaine Bolden, Mentor
Thomas Bolden, Whitmore Lake
Jennifer Brown, Chardon
Kahemba Butler, Warren
Jennifer Carpenter, Dorset
Lynn Clifton, Rome
LaDawn Cramer, Garrettsville
Susan Durman, Huntsburg
Cheryl Getzy, Concord
Joni Hardin, Jefferson
Kathleen Holesko, Newton Falls
David Hostetler Middlefield
Beverly Kaser, Garrettsville
Marjorie Langreder, W. Farmington
Chastity Lewis, Niles
Margaret Lindic, Burton
Denise Moss, Garrettsville
Donald Rosette, Aurora
Kimberly Wallace, Middlefield
Michael Weaver, Burton
Dennis Wolford, Southington
The winners, most who work together doing logistics and customer service-related work at KraftMaid, told Ohio Lottery officials that they had been playing together for quite awhile. As a group, they said they were still in shock. Paying off bills was top-of-mind for each of the winners. The winners used the auto lotto feature to choose their winning numbers, which were: 6-24-28-33-42 + 19. Speedway receives a $99,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. It is the 16th Mega Millions jackpot ticket sold by an Ohio Lottery retailer since Ohio joined the Mega Millions game in May 2002. For more information on the Ohio Lottery, please visit www.ohiolottery.com
The winners chose the cash option, and will each receive approximately $2 million after federal and state tax withholdings. ($65.4 million gross total payment; $45.1 million net, split by 22 persons.) They will receive payment in approximately four weeks.