Harold Diamond, a 39-year veteran of Monticello School District took the cash option on the $326 million jackpot, which will total $130,676,438 after taxes, according to the New York Lottery statement.
Diamond purchased the life-changing ticket after voting on Election Day in November. As it became clear he and his wife, Carol, won’t make it to dinner because of stormy weather, she insisted they stop and eat at the Valero and wait for the weather to clear. “I have to thank her with both barrels, because if it weren’t for her insistence, we would not be here today,” he said in the release.
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“We couldn’t be more thrilled. They were just a gem of a couple,” said Carolyn Hapeman, spokeswoman for the New York Gaming Commission.
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