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FLUSHING RESTAURANT WORKER ORDERS $1,000,000 LOTTERY PRIZE...TO GO
March 18, 2008
Schenectady, NY – A fast food cook from Flushing, Queens County, is the latest winner of the $1,000,000 top prize on the Lottery’s Big Bucks instant game. The winner, 55-year-old Hashmatullah Karimzada, said his wife played a big role in his big win.
“My wife told me to buy Lottery tickets this week and she never does that,” said Karimzada through his interpreter. “It was meant to be.”
Born in Afghanistan, Karimzada has lived in New York since 1986 where he’s worked in a number of neighborhood restaurants, including Brooklyn’s Royal Fried Chicken, from which he recently retired. The self-described “family guy” said he looked forward to using his considerable restaurant experience to open is own business.
“Life’s decisions are much easier now,” he said. “I would like to open my own restaurant and my wife, Nooria, wants to attend school to become a hair dresser. Financial stability makes anything possible.”
Karimzada purchased his winning Big Bucks ticket at Zeel on Northern Boulevard in Flushing. He claimed it at the Lottery’s Garden City Customer Service Center on March 6, 2008. He will receive his prize in payments of $50,000 a year, less required tax withholdings, for the next 20 years.
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