ALBANY – An elderly woman who thought she had hit the jackpot to the tune of $5 million in a scratch-off lottery game will have to settle for a vastly smaller consolation prize: a replacement $20 ticket, an Albany appeals court ruled.
Although the ticket held by Jeanne Consola, 80, in the $500,000,000 Extravaganza instant lottery game appeared to be the real thing, an Appellate Division, Third Department panel decided that the state Lottery Division persuasively argued that her ticket along with some 4,500 others, had been misprinted.
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