USA: Woman embezzles millions of winning money from cousin

As it was announced around two weeks ago, a young US-American must appear in court. She is being accused of defrauding a family member of his lottery scratch ticket jackpot. But what sentence is the accused expected to receive and how was the case detected?

The responsible State Advocate of Nassau County in the US Federal State New York has recently announced that charges were being pressed on a 32-year-old US-American. She is being suspected of having defrauded her cousin of his lottery scratch ticket jackpot. A few weeks ago we had reported about a young woman from Great Britain who had defrauded a couple of 45,000 GBP.

Accused has allegedly defrauded own cousin

The State Advocate is accusing Iris Amador A. of having defrauded her cousin a six-digit figure amount. Previously her cousin had asked her to cash out the winning ticket for him. The accused had complied to his wishes, however then she told him that he had “only” won 13,500 US-Dollar with the lottery scratch ticket.

The damaged party had at the end of October 2020 already bought a lottery scratch ticket in a 7-Eleven supermarket for 5 US-Dollar. After he had scratched the appropriate fields he realised that he had won millions. However since he did not want to expose himself as the millions winner, the winner then contacted his cousin. The latter should cash out the lottery scratch ticket jackpot at the NYS Gaming Commission on his behalf.

The lucky chap had fairly enough even offered his cousin a share of the winnings amounting to 50,000 US-Dollar for her help. However this amount was not enough for the fraudster cousin. Instead she falsified the documents and informed her cousin that he had only won a total of 20,000 US-Dollar. After tax deductions, the falsified documents showed that only 13,436 US-Dollar were remaining. The 32-year-old accused put this mere fraction of the total winnings in an envelope and gave them to her cousin.

“Real“ lottery scratch ticket winner threatened with legal consequences

When the actual lottery scratch ticket winner became suspicious and confronted his cousin with the allegation of fraud, she brushed it off and threatened with legal consequences. She demanded that they do not even stay in touch. Then the “real“ lucky devil involved the police  who started the necessary investigations against the woman. During the investigations, the investigators discovered the amount of nearly 318,000 US-dollar in the account of the woman. Consequently the money, which presumably stemmed from the lottery scratch ticket winnings was frozen. Just in the summer of this year we had reported about a Lottery scratch ticket millionaire who was murdered by her husband.

Conclusion

The 32-year-old US-American must appear in court. She is being accused not only of document falsification but also of serious theft. She can face a sentence of up to 15 years imprisonment. The reprehensible thing in this case is that the woman wanted to defraud an own family member of such a high amount to keep the money for herself. We have to wait and see whether the accused will go to prison and if so for how long.

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