Man who sold $1.5 billion Mega Millions ticket in 2018 arrested on tax evasion charges

[JEDI]

Man who reportedly sold $1.5 billion Mega Millions ticket arrested on tax evasion charges

The man who reportedly sold the\u00a0record Mega Millions lottery ticket in Greenville County in 2018 has been arrested and charged with tax evasion.

www.usatoday.com

The store owner has been arrested and charged with five counts of tax evasion, according to the state's Department of Revenue.
Chirag Jayanti Patel, 49, of Greenville County, is accused of failing to report more than $2 million in sales from 2013 through 2017, warrants show. In doing so, he evaded $123,044 in sales tax, investigators said.
(KC Mart received $50,000 for selling the winning ticket. )

Also, Jason Kurland, the lawyer who represented the $1.5B winner, was indicted on federal charges in 2020 and accused of more than $100 million in fraud — including against the lottery winner.

 

[shortylickens]

OK, when you cash a check that big dont they report it to the IRS immediately?
He should not have been able to wait until now to get caught for not paying taxes. They should have been on his ass right away.

 

[BoomerD]

OK, when you cash a check that big dont they report it to the IRS immediately?
He should not have been able to wait until now to get caught for not paying taxes. They should have been on his ass right away.

RTFS...he didn't HIT the lotto...he was a ticket seller.

 

[shortylickens]

sorry, I get upset easily.

 

[BoomerD]

READ MY FUCKING POST YOU MOUTHY STUPID BITCH!


THATS WHAT I FUCKING SAID!!!!!


WHORE!

THEY OBVIOUSLY DIDNT GIVE HIM ONE POINT FIVE BILLION IN CASH!

HE OBVIOUSLY DIDNT PUT ONE POINT FIVE BILLION CASH IN A FUCKING SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX!!

DUMB SLUT!

<sigh> Nope...the $1.5 Billion doesn't even come into play...the idiot was selling lottery tickets...never reported the income or sales taxes.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Man 3 posts in and this fucking thread already has everything but a michael bay explosion.

 

[zinfamous]

kinda surprised that the lawyer representing the actual lottery winner committed only $100million in fraud--and not all of that against his winning client. I would assume that if his work was good, he would have at least pulled about $30-50million from that guy, legally, right?

 

[Torn Mind]

Apu thought they couldn't count.
Frank Underwood says, "I can, absolutely. And if you don't you're gonna pay get tossed off the Peachoid Tower and I'll make it look like a suicide".

And a lawyer breaking the rules is as close to certainty as death. Law is all about training up the next batch of rulebreakers.

 

[Torn Mind]

https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/south-carolina-indian-american-lottery-ticket-store-owner-charged-with-tax-evasion/article_afded980-84a0-11eb-b3ec-7b60437ef281.html

Compared to the crappy journalist of USA Today, India West simply reported this story in a clear, more concise, and more informative manner.

The tax evasion claims, incidentally, came before his store sold the winning $1.5 billion MegaMillions lottery ticket in October of 2018, postandcourier.com reported.

No such line existed in the USA Today article, therefore making it defective in informing the reader of such a salient and relevant fact.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Man 3 posts in and this fucking thread already has everything but a michael bay explosion.