Casino.org <\/i>reported<\/a>, Lea Rose Fiega handed a clerk at the Lucky Stop convenience store in Southwick her $30 Diamond Millions scratch-off after she thought it was a loser. The clerk placed the ticket in a trash receptacle behind the counter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Later, the Lucky Stop owner — Abhi Shah — came across the ticket and quickly realized it was a winner. After discovering it was worth $1 million, the owner said he had a moral dilemma.<\/p>\n
“My inner soul told me, ‘That’s not right. You know who that person is. You should give that ticket back to them.’ And that’s exactly what I did,”<\/strong> Shah told The Washington Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n He says he arrived at the right conclusion and tracked down Fiega. Shah won’t go empty-handed, however, as the Massachusetts Lottery compensated the store $10,000 for selling the winning ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Virginia Lottery player was most fortunate when she hit a $110,000 Cash 5 jackpot during the February 24 draw. She needed more luck, however, in order to find the lucky ticket. Mary Elliott of Buckingham County, Virginia, purchased a Cash 5 ticket for the February 24 draw. The Cash 5 game takes place seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":208213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3313,13699],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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