Texas Lottery to pay the winner of the Houston region after months of restraint in restraint in money
The resident of the Houston region will receive $ 45.8 million before taxes.
HOUSTON – The Texas Lottery Commission will pay almost $ 46 million to a woman who was refused her earnings for months during the surveys and controversies that have equaled her payment.
An agreement between the lottery commission and Kristen Moriarty was filed Thursday, according to the judicial archives. In a statement, the lottery commission said that the regulations had been concluded with the advice of the Office General Ken Paxton, and that the resident of the Houston region will receive $ 45.8 million before taxes in a single bump which is currently being processing.
Payment comes more than five months after Moriarty bought its winning ticket Lotto Texas – worth $ 83.5 million – on February 17 via Jackpocket, an online service known as Courier de Lottery which sells online lottery tickets. The agency refused to pay Moriarty for the victory, citing two surveys on messaging operations in Texas by the Ministry of Public Security and the Paxton office.
Moriarty continued the committee in May for money and said that she felt trapped between a legal battle in which she had no part.
“I am sad, stressed, angry that it has become a political thing,” said Moriarty in a June interview with Texas Tribune. “I lost confidence in our elected officials. And yes, I really don’t know what to say other than I can say out loud. ”
The letters, who operate by receiving client orders and scanning copies of physical tickets in a retail store that the company has to send to the buyer, was recently criminalized by the Texas Legislative Assembly after being examined to find out if their operations were legal under the law of the State.
Skepticism with regard to the legality of letters was already raised among state legislators due to a jackpot which was won in 2023. In this case, only one group, with the help of a messaging company, bought 99% of the 26 million possible tickets in a single drawing to win a jackpot of $ 95 million. In addition to criminalizing letters, the Legislative Assembly has also prohibited to buy more than 100 tickets in one purchase.
After Moriarty won her prize through a letter, the legislators, including Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick, became even more suspicious of the services, which caused surveys.
The prosecutor’s office did not respond to a request for comments on the settlement or his investigation.
Payment should be among the latter to be treated by the Lottery Commission, which should be abolished on September 1. The Texas Department of License and Regulation will rather direct the state -ownership and bingo operations of the state, although it is currently not clear how similar the operations of the two agencies will be. The regulation also ends one of the last controversies that have wrapped the agency convicted since January, which led to surveys, the abolition of the Commission and multiple resignations.
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