Three win the largest sums in the history of the U.S. Lottery

Officials from the U.S. lottery contest on Saturday that the three winners are likely to share a cash prize of $ 656 million, the largest prize in the history of the competition bought the winning ticket in Maryland and Illinois, and somewhere in the northeast Kansas.

Said Carol Everett, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Lottery contest "Each winner gets about $ 105.1 million in cash after deduction of taxes, but will take care of coins at the moment."
Officials said that the lottery winners who bear numbers of tickets bought all six numbers in the competition of big lottery that have been withdrawn on Friday night will share the prize, the largest in the history of the competition the U.S., which rose to $ 656 million after accounting for all sales.
Can be the winners their prizes on receiving a lump sum or in 26 annual installments.
Dennis Metzger and woke up a store manager, the pre-dawn phone call from the officials to inform them win the lottery ticket sold in the store in the village run by Reid to be small-scale farming, which lies 30 miles southeast of St. Louis.
Metzger said that the store will receive 500 thousand dollars for selling a winning ticket, "started screaming and woke my husband."
She said the residents of the village's population of four thousand flocked to the store to check ticket numbers as soon as they have in place to hear the news, but not yet shown any winner.
She joked: "I think that everyone in the village came here."
Despite the fact that perhaps he wanted the winner of anonymity, the state of Illinois will be forced eventually to record his or her name in public records.
Kelly said Kraab spokeswoman for the lottery competition in the state of Texas, which oversees the Grand Prix that in addition to the three grand prize winners there are three other tickets won a prize numbers million dollars per ticket, 158 tickets won its owners $ 250 thousand dollars each separately.
The officials said that there was a tremendous amount of excitement before the draw, selling more than a billion ticket.
The back half of the amount of lottery ticket holders in the form of awards and state governments to get 35 percent and 15 percent in the form of commissions to distributors and expenses for the management of the competition.
Regardless of who wins the grand prize winner, there is a definite benefit of the U.S. Internal Revenue. And subject the agency to collect tax on any lottery prize of more than five thousand dollars 25 per cent