Fill in the Form<\/strong><\/h2>\nMeanwhile, lottery officials said the formal process to officially identify the winner may take a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody claiming to be the winner isn\u2019t valid until we say it is,\u201d lottery spokesperson Carolyn Becker said at a news conference outside Las Palmitas Mini Market on Thursday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThe California Lottery will NOT know who the winner is until someone completes and turns in a claim form, which also requires producing the winning ticket,\u201d Becker clarified to The Independent <\/em>on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nMeanwhile, those who missed out on the Powerball prize may take solace from the fact that the Mega Millions has climbed to an estimated $910 million. That\u2019s after there was no winner on Tuesday, not even a fake one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The true winner of the $1.08 billion \u201cSkid Row\u201d Powerball Jackpot has yet to come forward after an ecstatic woman who claimed to be the lucky player was reported to have been \u201cfaking it.\u201d The actual winner really did buy the ticket at Las Palmitas Mini Market in downtown Los Angeles, but they are not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":282683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13699],"tags":[83186,87193],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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