Thursday, April 21, 2005
Get A Load Of This Shithead...
If North Carolina ends up getting a lottery, we can probably expect to see a few examples of greedy behavior like this one up in New York...
A Manhattan judge has frozen the lottery winnings of a man his colleagues claim is a lotto louse.
John Piccolo won $175,000 playing Mega Millions last November — with a ticket his co-workers at Mount Sinai Hospital say came from their office pool.
"Lo and behold, he got amnesia after they got the winning ticket," said lawyer Joey Jackson, who's representing Veronica Edmondson, Denise Beaulieu and Joan Pitcan in their suit against Piccolo, their colleague and former friend.
Piccolo's lawyer, Michael Weiss, says his client didn't forget anything. He bought the winning ticket with his own money from a store near his Queens home.
Edmondson said she found out about the win when Piccolo called to say "something came up" and he'd be late for work. "I just won the Mega Million second prize for $175,000," Edmondson quoted Piccolo as saying in court papers. "Hardly able to contain my excitement, I exclaimed, 'We won, John!!!' " Edmondson said.
"No," he replied, "I won."
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