Lottery officials said they sought legal advice and were told the purchaser did nothing wrong and he should be paid. The Megabucks cash lump sum payment would have been $3.2 million - half the jackpot amount, before taxes are paid. The agency made the first payment of $256,000 last week ($158,000 after withholding income taxes, as is the typical procedure). Rather than a lump-sum payment, the winner chose to take his payout over 20 years. “This is absolutely unprecedented for the Oregon Lottery,” said Chuck Baumann, lottery spokesman.īaumann told NewsChannel 21 on Wednesday that such online sales are legal in this case, though the lottery itself does not sell tickets online. 1, when the man walked into the Oregon Lottery’s Salem headquarters to claim his prize – and to spark a round of legal inquiry about the unique (to this point) circumstances of the big win. 24, hired someone go to Binky’s, a deli and lottery ticket sales outlet, and buy a Megabucks ticket on behalf of a Website customer, who as it turned out is an Iraqi national. “That doesn’t happen very often, so it was exciting for us to be sold here,” Bell-Putis said Wednesday. One of those tickets turned out to crack the jackpot. “We sell a lot of megabucks tickets, they come in with hands full of them,” said Judy Bell-Putis, owner of Binky’s on Southeast Third Street in Bend.
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