The first $10 million prize from one of the Massachusetts State Lottery’s scratch ticket games was claimed without the winner releasing their name.
The $10 million prize was from a scratch ticket game called “$10,000,000 Lucky Bucks,” which cost $20 per ticket to play. It was released on Jan. 10, and has two remaining $10 million grand prizes to be claimed.
The winner chose to claim their prize on Oct. 19, through a trust called JJFM Trust of Wellesley, which was represented by trustee Anthony J. Barsamian.
The trustee opted to receive the prize for the winner in the form of a one-time payment of $6.5 million before taxes.
The winner had bought the ticket from a package store in Ashland called Che’s Liquors, located at 300 Eliot St. The store will receive a $50,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
Massachusetts isn’t one of the states that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous. But it can still happen — it just takes more time.
The Massachusetts Lottery allows winners to create a trust, in which a trustee is able to turn in the winning ticket, receive the check and then deposit it into a bank account set up for the beneficiary or lottery winner.
“Prizes can be claimed by a trust or other legal entities that fulfill the definition of a legal person,” Mark William Bracken, Executive Director of the Massachusetts State Lottery told MassLive.
“The identity of the trustee or legal representative is made public. Over the last several years, we have seen an increase in the number of large prizes claimed by trusts.”
