HOLLYWOOD WOMAN CLAIMS $1 MILLION
MEGA MONEY&8482; JACKPOT
TALLAHASSEE The Florida Lottery today announced that Moniqueca Neufeld 30 of Hollywood claimed the $1 million MEGA MONEY&8482; jackpot from the April 8 2011 drawing.
Neufeld chose the onetime lumpsum payment option for her winnings in the amount of $705267.50. She purchased her jackpotwinning MEGA MONEY Quick Pick ticket at Foodtown located at 6431 Stirling Road in Davie. The retailer received a bonus incentive of $1000 for selling the jackpotwinning ticket.
Total ticket sales for this jackpot generated more than $1 million for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF). The next MEGA MONEY drawing will be held tonight at 1115 p.m. ET with a $600000 jackpot. Webcasts of Florida Lottery drawings are available on the Lotterys Web site.
Florida voters by a twotoone margin approved a constitutional amendment in 1986 authorizing the state to operate a lottery for the purpose of generating significant additional moneys for education. Today Floridians continue to show their support by purchasing nearly $4 billion in Lottery products per year resulting in contributions of more than $22 billion to the EETF since 1988. For more information regarding the Florida Lottery its games and its contributions to education visit www.flalottery.com.