Marriott Millionaire's Son Wins $107 Million in Mega Millions Lotto

[Divine Discontent]

(more at link) http://abcnews.go.com/US/marriott-millionaires-son-wins-107-million-virginia-lottery/story?id=14483086
ABC News - Virginia

Some people have all the luck. Brian McCarthy, son of millionaire Marriott president Robert McCarthy, can add an extra $107 million to his family fortune from the Virginia lottery.

The 25-year-old bachelor bought five tickets on a whim at the Herndon, Va., grocery store Giant. He had gone in to use the ATM and bought five tickets without even knowing how much the prize money was. He didn't even pick personal lucky numbers, letting the computer pick them for him.

"I jumped out of bed, poured my wallet out and looked at the numbers and I had the ticket," McCarthy told ABC's Washington D.C. affiliate WJLA.

When McCarthy collected the money, he chose to take the lump sum instead of receiving the money in yearly payments over the course of 26 years. The lump sum totaled $68 million before taxes.



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Seriously? BAH! I know he could be a good guy, but it just aggravates me to see him win a massive lottery because he can afford to spend who knows how much on things like the lottery because his dad's a multimillionaire President of a big corporation. Enjoy that BMW M3 (whatever that costs). But hey, his grandma said he was a "good boy" (where have we heard that before? oh that's right, FL Gov Voldemort's mom said that about Rick Scott) and she was going to make him a pie to congratulate him before he headed off to Ireland for a golf trip.

I'm not saying he's a bad guy at all, I'm just saying, The rich get richer, and they need their taxes raised.


http://www.zazzle.com/republicans_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128002960205017719

[Riley18]

1. Money goes to money.

[virgogal]

2. It does,but in this case it is just plain luck.

[emilyg]

3. $1 = equal chance

[awoke_in_2003]

5. I spend $2 a week....

$1 on wed, $1 on saturday. Can't win if you don't play, but I am not gonna give them much.

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. That's the way it goes. n/t

[flvegan]

6. Gambling often works that way.

[MineralMan]

7. Lucky guy.

That is all.

[KurtNYC]

8. elections get hacked, phones get hacked, internet hacked

and now RW billionaires win the lottery... hmmmm.

[Divine Discontent]

12. my bro said that, too! good point, indeed. It would totally not surprise me at all.....

[HappyMe]

9. Maybe he will make charitable contributions.

The dude won, fair & square.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Response from the Billionaires:

"It's great to see a poor guy catch a lucky break!"

[Abin Sur]

11. He had the same chance as anyone else

:shrug:

[miyazaki]

13. Fuck him and his hotels. n/t

[exelwood]

14. There's always the lucky lady in Texas...

...speaking of gaming the system. She has won multi-million dollar prizes 4 times in Texas. Turns out, she is a statistics professor at Stanford University. Maybe this kid is a friend of hers. :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Ginther-won-lottery-4-times-Stanford-University-statistics-PhD.html