an american woman pleaded guilty to stealing from his cousin a million dollar prize in the lottery he had won, according to a statement from the New York County of Nassau Prosecutor’s Office released this Friday.
The defendant, identified as Iris Amador and originally from the state of Texas, She could be sentenced to between 16 months and 4 years in prison.
The Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the victim won a million dollars with a scratch card in October 2020 and he asked his cousin to collect the prize for himwhich after taxes was $537,000, because he wanted to remain anonymous.
Likewise, the victim had promised to give her cousin $50,000 in exchange for doing her that favor.
The defendant accepted the deal, but instead of giving the money to her cousin, He told him that in reality the prize had not been a million dollars, but 20,000, but after taxes it had remained at $13,436.
Not convinced by her cousin’s arguments, the victim did an internet search and found a statement from the New York State Lottery Administration announcing that her cousin had claimed the prize and received the $537,440 to which she was entitled. . In New York it is mandatory to make public the name of the winners of the lottery games.
After unsuccessfully trying to get Amador to return the money he had earned with his card, the victim reported what had happened.
“When the victim initially reported that her cousin had stolen her $1 million Scratch-Off ticket, It seemed crazy that a relative could be such a trickster.” said Detective John Nagle of the Glen Cove (New York) Police Department, where the investigation took place.
The County Prosecutor’s Office added that last May the confiscation of the money that the defendant accumulated in her bank account, whose sum amounted to 317,857 dollars, which was delivered to its rightful owner.
(With information from EFE)
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