Candido Oliveira - $32 Mega Millions
Jackpot Winner – 08/09/2011
BRAINTREE, MA (August 23, 2011) – A 47-year-old Dorchester man today
stepped forward to claim the $32 million jackpot that he won in Friday night’s
multi-state Mega Millions game.
Candido Oliveira, who arrived at the Lottery’s
Braintree headquarters along with his girlfriend Edite,
selected the money option on the jackpot prize and received a one-time, lump sum
payment of about $22.2 million, or $15.5 million after taxes.
When asked by local media if he was surprised to learn that he won
millions of dollars, the soft-spoken Oliveira basically replied, “no.” He
earlier told Lottery officials that he didn’t even must look at the ticket
because he knew in his heart that he was the winner as soon as the store was
announced on the news.
He bought quic pic ticket at the Tedeschi Foods located at
320 Neponset Avenue in
Dorchester. Oliveira said he often plays the lottery at this
neighborhood store, but seldom plays over $1.00 at a time. When asked if he
planned to continue to play now that he’s won such an brilliant prize, Oliveira
again replied, “no”, but then chimed in with a smirk – “I wouldn’t require to be
greedy!”
Oliveira, who has been unemployed since
being laid off from his job as a record keeper nearly two years ago, plans to
finish his job search after hitting the jackpot. He also plans to make use of the
winnings to buy a house, as well as visit and help his relatives in his native
Cape Verde.
The last time a
Massachusetts player won a Mega Million jackpot was on
July two, 2004 when Geraldine Williams, a retired caretaker from
Lowell, won the then-record $294 million top prize. But,
Massachusetts residents have been lucky this summer
playing the Lottery’s multi-state jackpot games. On June 8th, Jimmy Freeman, a
retired Navy civilian worker from
Fall River, took home a $25.6 million Powerball jackpot.
Hani El-Shurafa, the owner of the Dorchester Tedeschi’s Food where
Oliveira bought the ticket, will also benefit from his customer’s win with a
$50,000 commission check.
Mega Millions is played in 41 states,
Washington
D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and is drawn every
Tuesday and Friday at
11:00 p.m. in
Atlanta,
Georgia. For more knowledge on Mega Millions or
any of the Massachusetts Lottery’s games, visit:
www.masslottery.com.
Source:
http://www.megamillions.com/winners/