2024-04-30 07:26:00
Laotian immigrants from Thailand to the United States and fight once morest cancer Win the 46.7 billion baht Powerball lottery jackpot, the 8th highest in history
April 2024 American Powerball Lottery There was a big winner. Won a jackpot worth over 1.3 billion US dollars (approximately 46.7 billion baht). But what’s more interesting is that. He is also a Laotian who immigrated from Thailand.
Charlie Saephan, 46, of Portland, Oregon, said at an April 29 news conference that he won the lottery with his wife of 37 years, Dueanpen, and his old friend, Lisa Chao, 55 years.
He said Chao paid $100 to buy the lottery ticket. After buying tickets together Jesha then took a picture of the ticket and gave it to Charlie and told him, “We’re billionaires,” he said, of course, jokingly. But it turned out to be true.
They opted to receive the lump sum jackpot, which following taxes would amount to around US$422 million (15.6 billion baht), with Charlie and Dueanphen sharing half the prize with Chao.
Charlie has suffered from cancer since 2016 and underwent chemotherapy last week.
Charlie said, “I will be able to support my family and my health… find a good doctor for myself,” adding that he has two children. But as a cancer patient, he wondered, “How am I going to have time to spend all this money?” How long can I live?
Charlie said He was born in Laos. I am an Iu Mien people. or an ethnic group with roots in southern China and moved to Thailand in 1987 before immigrating to the United States in 1994. Today, tens of thousands of Yew Mien live in cities across the West Coast the United States. It has a great community in Portland.
Charlie graduated from high school in 1996 and has lived in Portland for 30 years, working as a mechanic for an aerospace company.
He said that before drawing the prize, he wrote the numbers he would choose on a piece of paper and placed it under his pillow. and prayed that he would be rewarded “I need help. I don’t want to die unless I can do something for my family first.
The winning Powerball ticket was purchased in early April at the Plaid Pantry convenience store in Portland, ending a streak of more than three months without a winner.
The $1.3 billion prize is the 4th largest jackpot in Powerball history. and is the 8th largest among all American jackpots. with the highest jackpot in the United States. There will be $2.04 billion in prize money in California in 2022.
Compiled from Associated Press
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