She wants to claim her money anonymously but NH says no. What say you?

One month after a New Hampshire woman says she chose all six correct numbers for the lone $559.7 million Powerball grand prize, she has yet to turn in the ticket and the money is lying unclaimed. It’s not that she doesn’t want it. She just doesn’t want the public to know she won it. The woman says she signed the ticket after the January 6 drawing. She says she was just following the instructions on the ticket and on the state lottery website. But a complaint filed last week in a New Hampshire court says that was a “huge mistake.” And the woman, identified for now as Jane Doe, wants a court order to allow her to collect her winnings anonymously.

… A spokeswoman with the New Hampshire Lottery Commission says the state’s Right to Know law allows them to reveal the identity of the person whose name is written on the ticket. But a loophole would let the winner’s identity be shielded if the name of a trust is written on the back of the ticket instead. The trustee’s name would then be the one to be released, and that could be anybody, including a friend or a lawyer. But now that the woman has already signed the ticket, it appears to be too late to have a trust collect the winnings.

… The woman’s attorney asked if she could white out her name and replace it with the name of a trust, but lottery officials told her any change would invalidate the ticket and she’d lose her winnings.


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