Alabama Lottery Shot Down as Mega Millions Jackpot Reaches $830M

Alabama Lottery Effort to Resume Next Year, as Mega Millions Jackpot Reaches $810M

This year’s attempts to pass an Alabama lottery in the state legislature were again unsuccessful. State lawmakers in Montgomery who want to permit Alabamans to participate in the well-known interstate lottery say their fight is not over despite Mega Millions making headlines and its draw tomorrow night featuring a jackpot estimated to be worth

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Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to Estimated $530M, Eighth-Largest in Game History

Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to Estimated $530M, Eighth-Largest in Game History

Mega 530 MillionThe Mega Millions jackpot for tomorrow night’s draw is an estimated $530 million, the lottery game’s eighth-largest prize in its more than quarter-century history.

A gas station Mega Millions advertisement shows this week’s estimated $530 million jackpot up for grabs during the July 19, 2022, draw. The lottery jackpot hasn’t been won since April 15. (Image: NBC4)

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Lottery Lawyer Accused of Bilking America’s Biggest Jackpot Winners Stands Trial

Lottery Lawyer Accused of Bilking America’s Biggest Jackpot Winners Stands Trial

The trial kicked off this week of a so-called “lottery lawyer,” accused by federal prosecutors of siphoning $107 million from three jackpot winners he was paid to advise.

Turns out “Lottery lawyer” Jason Kurland, above, was not the best person to offer financial advice to jackpot winners after all. That’s according to federal prosecutors. (Image: David Handschuh/NYLJ.)

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